Sephardic Music Festival Preview with La Mar Enfortuna / DJ Handler
September 12, 2006 11:15PM
Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow of Elysian Fields doing all Sephardic, Ladino and Hebrew torch songs with a large band. Opening set by DJ Handler.
Sensuous and lyrical, La Mar Enfortuna is the Sephardic side project from the masterminds of legendary noir rock group Elysian Fields, Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles. La Mar Enfortuna is a modern exploration of lost or forgotten music mostly of the Sephardim from the 11th to the 15th century, with exotic melodies and instruments, songs sung in ladino, arabic, english; reinvented by Bloedow and Charles, with a sensibility that emabraces jazz, folk, rock, Eastern, and Latin musics. Many guests on the first Tzadik CD, including Ted Reichman, George Javori, Joan Wasser, Ben Perowsky, Steven Bernstein, and Jamie Saft among many others. Besides Charles and Bloedow, the core group as it now stands includes Doug Wieselman, Ted Reichman, Robert DePietro, and Brahim Fribgane. The group will commence recording of a second La Mar record in June, before heading to Granada, Spain for a live concert at La Huerta de Lorca. The band has also played in Washington, DC, New York City, and most recently Paris, at La Cigalle. To purchase CD, go here. Be sure and visit the elysian fields page.
dj Handler & Jakedj handler & Jake Break strive to dodge the rigid classification of musical genres according to geographical, historical, and cultural borders. Using turntables, samplers and various types of music to integrate an amalgam of tunes and melodies, they create a platform for multicultural exchange. For this evening they will focus on sonically melting and manipulating Yemenite and Sephardic music, fusing it with hip hop beats and breaks.
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