Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

[Smoz]

I was in Berlin this weekend and while there I went to see a guy called Geoff Berner, a Canadian punk rock klezmer musician (as quoted in my sig).

On the same evening I saw a band called Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, from what I can gather they are a based around a core of four US and German musicians plus assorted other musicians who play with them from time to time on a rotating basis (mostly eastern European).

The band cite the Pogues amongst their influences on their myspace site and I can hear some of that in their music, although I can also hear a great deal more Brecht and Tom Waits in there too.

Their record company's website describes them as "a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk", which sums them up well.

A good live performance, I will look out for them playing again. Does anyone else on here know anything more about them?


http://www.myspace.com/thepaintedbird