The Industrial Twilight: Gevolt

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Gevolt - "AlefBase" [2011]

Artist: Gevolt
Title: AlefBase
Genre: Folk/Industrial Metal, Neue Deutsche Härte
Country: Israel
Release date: 2011

Track List:

Hakdome
Trinken A Bisale Vayn
Der Rebe Elimelekh
Sha Shtil
Tum Balalayke
Shpil Zhe Mir A Lidele In Yiddish
Mayn Rue Plats
Zog Nit Keyn Mol
A Mol Iz Geven A Mayse
Sheyn Vi Di Levone
Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn
Tshiribim Tshiribom
Der Alefbeys

Probably one of the most interesting releases of 2011 - the first album in the history of metal with all the lyrics in Yiddish. Who might have guessed that there'll be a band playing NDH in Israel... however, Yiddish sounds very similar to German, so the choice of genre doesn't look odd. The band exists since 2001 and released their first album (with lyrics in Russian) in 2006. I found "AlefBase" much more interesting than their first one, though. It entirely consists of cover versions of various well-known Yiddish (Klezmer) songs, some of which ("Tum Balalayke", for ex.) sound quite funny in this "Rammstein-esque" arrangement. IMO it's a really original release, and not only because they're singing in Yiddish. Since they're officially giving it out for free on rutracker.org, I think it'd be OK to post it here as well.

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