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De Amsterdam Klezmer Band are no new kids on the block and this is about their 9th album, they've perfected their sound now and the tracks come with seemless ease, managing to blend Klezmer with Balkan or Russian music. Both Odessa born Kopyt and tubby Dutch jack the lad Job Chaies offer something difference. Kopyt is well suited to the more emotional numbers, often sung in Russian whilst Job occasionally sneaks in witha humorous line in English or Dutch and is the forefront of any included hip hop.
In Slavic languages zaraza means infectious or contagious, in Polish it is the word for epidemic. Zaraza is indeed an infectious album from an extremely virulent and passionate band. The album contains 15 brand new tracks, all original compositions rooted in the Klezmer tradition and infused with Romanian, Turkish, Serbian, Russian and Macedonian sounds. With Zaraza the band has achieved the optimal CD recording of their unique sound and qualities.
Stockholm singer/songwriter Johannes Mayer, who performs under the name THE LATE CALL, appears to have frequently reached for his guitar producing the tangible emotions contained on this record...Through the first notes you are drawn into a very special atmosphere and you will quickly understand that what you?re hearing is not another pop record constructed on the drawing-board of a hit factory. This feeling is real and does not let go of you over the full length of the album. It creates an intimacy and gives you that goose pimple feeling one usually only associates with listening to Nick Drake, Damien Rice or Jos? Gonzalez.
