Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

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Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn at a concert with his group in Luxembourg (January 2013)
Daniel Kahn at a concert with his group in Luxembourg (January 2013)
General information
origin Berlin
Genre (s) Klezmer , punk , folk
founding 2005
Website http://paintedbird.net
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar , piano , ukulele , accordion
Daniel Kahn
Hampus Melin
Michael Tuttle
Jake Shulman-Ment
Christian Dawid
trombone
 Dan Blacksberg
former members
clarinet
 Michael Winograd
violin
 Johannes Paul Gräßer
Detlef Ebeneow
clarinet
 Bert Hildebrandt
The band performing at the Poetry Festival Berlin 2015

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird is an international Klezmer band around the Detroit- born American Daniel Kahn . The group was founded in Berlin in 2005 and has since released five albums on the renowned Berlin record label Oriente Musik . The name of the band comes from the title of the novel The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński from 1965.

style

The music of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird , referred to by Kahn as "Verfremdungsklezmer", is a mixture of klezmer , punk , folk and singer-songwriter . It is occasionally pointed out similarities to the music of Tom Waits as well as to the movement of Radical Jewish Culture .

Some of the texts are by Kahn, but many are adaptations of poems and songs by Jewish authors (e.g. Mordechaj Gebirtig ), often with socio-political themes. Kahn also sings songs by Franz Josef Degenhardt (Die alten Lieder) , Heinrich Heine (Die alten böse Lieder) , Bertolt Brecht (Jewish whore Marie Sanders and Because what does man live on?) And Kurt Tucholsky (roses strewn on the path) as well as a Yiddish -Version of the classic Lili Marleen . In 2016 he translated Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah into Yiddish, which he has occasionally sung at concerts since then. He sings in English , German and Yiddish, often mixing several languages ​​in one song. On previous albums he was accompanied by the Russian singing Vanya Zhuk.

Albums

  • The Broken Tongue (2006, Chamsa Records; 2009, Oriente Music )
  • Partisans & Parasites (2009, Oriente Musik)
  • Lost Causes (2010, Oriente Musik)
  • Bad Old Songs (2012, Oriente Music)
  • The Butcher's Share (2017, Oriente Musik)

Awards

The album Lost Causes won the German Record Critics' Prize in 2011 . Bad Old Songs was included in the record review leaderboard in the first quarter of 2013. The Butcher's Share succeeded in doing this in the first quarter of 2018.

Trivia

The drawings on the cover of The Butcher's Share are by Eric Drooker .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Kahn, born 1978 in Detroit , see: Charlotte Misselwitz; Cornelia Siebeck (Ed.): Dissonant memories - fragmented present: exchanging young discourses between Israel and Germany . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1273-8 , p. 225.
  2. ↑ Press quotes on the band's homepage (accessed on February 3, 2016).
  3. ↑ A pretty Meydl is waiting in old Berlin. taz.de , January 26, 2013, accessed on April 13, 2017 .
  4. ^ Prize of the German Record Critics 2011: Daniel Kahn: Lost Causes
  5. ↑ http://www.schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/591-bestenliste-1-2013
  6. ↑ Best list 1–2018 of the German Record Critics' Prize
  7. ↑ At Daniel Kahn, Klezmer meets folk and punk. t-online , December 9, 2017, accessed July 31, 2019 .