Oi Va Voi

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Oi Va Voi
Oi Va Voi at a concert in Zurich, 2009
Oi Va Voi at a concert in Zurich , 2009
General information
Genre (s) Rock , klezmer , electronic music , world music , experimental music
founding 2000
Website www.oi-va-voi.com
Founding members
Ni Ammar
Josh Breslaw
Leo Bryant
Steve Levi
Lemez Lovas
Sophie Solomon (until 2006)
Live members
singing
 KT Tunstall (until 2006)
singing
 Earl Zinger
violin
 Haylie Ecker (since 2006) Anna Phoebe (since 2007)
singing
 Alice McLaughlin (since 2006)
singing
 Bridgette Amofah (since 2006)

Oi Va Voi ( Yiddish for “Herrjemine” or “My goodness”) is an experimental rock group from London . She mixes traditional Eastern European and Jewish music with elements of rock or electronic music .

history

The band members met in the late 1990s while studying in Oxford and founded Oi Va Voi initially as a purely instrumental group with a focus on traditional Jewish music . With the tragic piece S'brent by Mordechaj Gebirtig , which relates to the National Socialist pogroms of 1938, there is also a Yiddish song in the band's repertoire. Little by little they mixed more modern sounds into their pieces and their first CD, which was still produced by them, had already broken far away from the classical models. For the studio recordings and the live appearances, Oi Va Voi found a suitable voice in KT Tunstall .

After the release of their first commercial album, Laughter Through Tears, in 2003, Oi Va Voi split up with their former record company in a dispute. In addition, with Sophie Solomon a member left the band to concentrate on their solo career. Since KT Tunstall also went their own way, a longer phase of restructuring followed before the band was able to record a new album Oi Va Voi in 2007 together with Haylie Ecker and Alice McLaughlin .

On May 5, 2009, a new album entitled Traveling the face of the globe was released.

Discography

  • Digital Folklore (2002; self-published) - hardly available today
  • Laughter Through Tears (2003; Outcaste)
  • Oi Va Voi (2007; V2 Records )
  • Traveling The Face Of The Globe (2009; OI VA VOI Recordings)
  • Vanished World (Single, 2018; V2 Records Benelux)

Reviews

Marco Frenzel in the WOM Journal : “The Jewish harmonies played by the clarinet, trumpet, violin or piano are boldly combined with club-suitable rhythms and complement each other instead of playing against each other. An extremely multifaceted version of pop. "

Arndt & Franzen at Rolling Stone : “Is this the next Gotan Project ? The sextet from London mixes klezmer with computer and dub with Balkan brass or even Hungarian-influenced languor chants. Even more surprising than this daring fusion, however, is the artistic maturity of their outcaste debut. They call their music 'digital folk'. We call it a sensation: limitless, club-friendly and unearthly beautiful. "

Awards

Web links

Commons : Oi Va Voi  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WOM Journal No. 232, December 2003
  2. ↑ Rolling Stone , 3/04