24 Aug at 9:00 pm
Summerhall (venue 26), Dissection Room / 1 Summerhall (EH9 1PL)
Tickets: £10.00
Box office: 0845 874 3001
Cunkunft
The band Cukunft (meaning 'the future' in Yiddish) was established by guitarist Raphael Rogiński with the idea of continuing the Jewish musical traditions of Eastern Europe, with all their richness and in all of sorts of forms and genres
The musicians interpret pre-war pieces, and also compose their own using the entire spectrum of Jewish music which, for them, remains very much alive. Cukunft’s repertoire is created spontaneously, but is also backed by serious musical and sociological research. Currently, the band is focused almost entirely on Jewish country music from the Galicia region. Processed through the group’s original sound, some of the traditional dances – freylaks, turkiszer and voleks – are evolving into a contemporary repertoire for a modern ‘klezmer orchestra’. The band’s present line-up includes Raphael Rogiński on electric guitar, Paweł Szamburski on clarinet, Paweł Szpura on drums and Michał Górczyński on bass clarinet.
See more on Cukunft at: www.myspace.com/cukunft