Nathan Hollander - Remes Stickel, a Hora (klezmer harmonium)

A Hora by klezmer Harmonium player Nathan Hollander, dating from the 1920s.

Writes Bob Cohen of Di Naye Kapelye -- "Nathan Hollander was a klezmer harmonium player in the 1920s and, perhaps, the worst musician ever to record. Predating techno by over seventy years, he began his musical career by owning a recording studio, and then issuing his own 78s mechanically pounding out Yiddish songs and dances on a pump organ. He makes mistakes, his rhythm is absolutely crap, occasionally he stops and forgets the tune --in a word, wonderful! Nobody will ever reissue a Nathan Hollander 78."

Josh Horowitz, in his essay about the klezmer accordion (available on the Budowitz website), mentions the "persistent, dedicated, utterly unavoidable recordings of Mr Nathan Hollander [...] He is the perfect performer for ideologists who would like to see folk music as the generic property of the common people, rather than the inspired individual."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• klezmer
• 78
• nathan
• hollander
• harmonium
• accordion
• organ