Kruzenshtern & Parohod

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Kruzenshtern & Parohod (Russian: Крузенштерн и Пароход) is a Russophone Israel klezmer-rock band from Tel Aviv, created in 2002. Its style is variously branded as "experimental jazz", "klezmercore" (a pun on "hardcore"), "ethno jazz", "avant-garde".

The core team is :

  • Igor Krutogolov: bass balalaika, voice, toy accordion, noise
  • Ruslan Gross: clarinet, bass clarinet, voice
  • Guy Schechter: drums, voice
  • Olga Yelensky, accordion

They often play with various guests.

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[edit] Name

The name of the band is a pun immediately recognizable by all post-Soviet Russophones. In Russia (as well as in other Russophone places), a fictional steamship "Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern" from the popular Prostokvashino animated film series is very well known, often as part of a catch phrase "Admiral I.F.Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship", "pirated" from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, To Comrade Nette, a Man and a Steamship. The fictional steamship is named after the Baltic-German explorer in Russian services, admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, as is since 1946 a real sailing ship, the Kruzenshtern.

[edit] Discography

  • The Craft Of Primitive Klezmer (2003, Auris Media label)
  1. Mishegene Parovoz
  2. Focus Pocus
  3. Danglers Song
  4. Semitic Tango
  5. Dancing
  6. March
  7. Cul-De-Sac
  8. Vontzn In The Box
  9. Sippurim
  10. Tort
  • Songs (2004)
  1. Boker 1:51
  2. Joy 7:29
  3. Shtetl 2:31
  4. Tzohoraim 1:05
  5. Mehalalot 3:22
  6. Young ones 8:19
  7. Erev 1:50
  8. Portrait of a sitting Man in a Hat 5:31
  9. Kolbasa 5:46
  10. Laila 2:17
  11. Sippurim (to Leonid Soybelman) 8:39
  12. Shmock on the water 6:34
  13. Boker 5:08
  • Live in Karaganda (2004}
  1. Joy
  2. Meholalot
  3. Young Ones
  4. Tort
  5. Sippurim II
  6. Dangler's Song
  7. March
  8. Shmock on the Water
  9. Portrait of a Sitting Man in a Hat
  • K&P / Vialka (split CD, Auris Media, 2006)
The first five songs are by French duo Vialka described as "gypsy turbofolkpunk"[1])
  1. Bamako 5:45
  2. Nanaimo 6:23
  3. Singes Merdiques 1:28
  4. Gothenburg 4:12
  5. Usaisamonster 2:38
  6. Tort (with accordion) 5:23
  7. Young Ones (with accordion) 7:40
  8. Piratskaja 3:31
  9. Karate 4:20

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