Payazen! New-wave Klezmer @ Jamboree

After touring for a quarter of the past year, Payazen! has developed a distinct new style, based in the tradition of Eastern European klezmer, gypsy, and Balkan music, but with their own contemporary edge.

Violinist Dolan Jones and clarinetist Jason Alder bring beautiful arrangements and harmonies together with interweaving lines and improvisations, and when Dolan switches to trumpet or Jason to the bass clarinet, the sonic spectrum can change dramatically. Stephan Raidl's groovy bass lines keep the energy moving, and when Andys Skordis kicks in with the percussion, dancing becomes the only option.

Bringing their classical and jazz training together, their tunes take traditional melodies and transform them into a new-wave blend with elements of folk-rock, free jazz, Indian Karnatic music, and the pure trance-like state of 1960's psychedelia.