Space Klezmer

Many people have asked us “Why YID!? Why such a big band? Why a duck?”

There are no easy answers to these questions, like there are no easy answers to any questions. It is for this very reason that we decided to do something to answer our own hard question “How can we contribute to pushing this amazing culture forwards, to ensure that it will have a life beyond museums and the memories of our grandparents?”

We have tried, and we will let you be the judge, to refashion this great music with the same chutzpah with which it was composed. How these people would have performed folk music in an electronic age.

In S’a Mechaye it is written “The king stands in his undies…”

Yiddish song takes the mundane, imbues it with tremendous depth and pathos, but mainly chutzpadik humour, and creates an atmosphere where the sacred and profane coexist extremely peacefully.

We all contain the sacred and the profane, we all stand in our undies, all of us. There’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, of an evening, it’s quite pleasant.