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A Setting of a Beautiful Yiddish Poem by A. Sutzkever

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Channel: Daniel Hoffman · 2016 · Music

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Deep Klezmer Fiddle
In Torbe Funem Vint  
In the Sack Made of Wind
(aka On My Wandering Flute)
words by Avraham Sutzkever
music by Daniel Hoffman

featuring guest vocalist Aleksander Fisz

In Torbe Funem Vint 
(In a Sack Made of Wind)
A barefoot wanderer on a stone in evening-gold / brushes off the world’s dust. A bird hops / from the woods to snatch the last crumb of sun. / There’s a willow by the river, too. A road, a field, / 
a dewy meadow, homesick footsteps of hungry / clouds. There’s a lively fiddle, too. Where / are the hands that shape these wonders? / And what can you do in such a moment / but gather, in a sack made of wind, / the red beauty of it all, & take it / home for supper? And there’s loneliness, / like a mountain, too.

with 
Aleksander Fisz - voice
Daniel Hoffman- violin
Gilad Ephrat- contrabass
Ilyah Magalnyk- accordion
Yair Salzman- drums

filmed by Nitai Shalom

Originally released in 2004 on the Klez-X CD "Harbst"

recorded live at the Inbal Ethnic Arts Center in Tel Aviv on July 6, 2016

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