Wonder Wheel

Description

The Klezmatics are world-renowned superstars of the klezmer music. Their klezmer is one steeped in Jewish spiritualism and Eastern European tradition while incorporating more provocative themes such as social rights and anti-fundamentalism with eclectic musical influences such as gospel, punk, and Arab, African, and Balkan rhythms. Wonder Wheel, a record seven years in the making, reflects Woody Guthrie's political stance and social agenda into a larger, global mirror, and brings a 20th century American figurehead to a 21st-century audience. The Klezmatics vibrantly bring Woody's lyrics to life, filling them with Eastern European, klezmer, Latin, Celtic, Afro-Caribbean and folk flavor, giving them a universal life of their own. Featuring Celtic vocalist Susan McKeown and multi-instrumentalist Boo Reiners and produced by GoodAndEvil (Sex Mob, Elysian Fields, Felix Da Housecat), Wonder Wheel is an intense combination of the familiar and the exotic. But above all, it is completely natural, all-encompassing, and intensely human. Strangely enough Wonder Wheel never had an official European release and this gap is now being filled by Music & Words. As imports have been trickling in over the years after its US release we are happy to announce that this European version has 4 additional bonus tracks that have never been released before. Come When I Call You / Mermaid's Avenue / Headdy Down / Gonna Get Through This World / Pass Away / Holy Ground / Goin' Away To Sea / From Here On In / Wheel Of Life / Condorbird / Orange Blossom Ring / Heaven / Faith Will Heal You / I Take My Penny / Going Up The Mountain / Ilsa Koch