The experimental crossover music of Blitzmash hit like a lightning strike in a clear sky, on the album Benja: Gangsters & Entertainers the Amsterdam Klezmer Band once again shows its familiar and beloved klezmer sound. The mostly newly composed klezmer music is inspired by a character of the Russian Jewish novelist Isaak Babel. The bandit king Benja Krik was the undisputed leader of the Jewish
… underworld in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa in the early twentieth century. The AKB theater program portrays a juicy story that takes place during the wedding of Benja's sister. The AKB performs humorous Dutch-language rap, melancholic Russian-language songs and excellent virtuoso instrumental solos with flair. An exuberant and cheerful gangster party! (SvdP)more
