Kruzenshtern & Parohod

Kruzenshtern & Parohod ( _ru. Крузенштерн и Пароход) is a Russophone Israel klezmer-rock band from Tel Aviv, created in 2002. Its style is variously branded as "experimental jazz", "klezmercore" (a pun on "hardcore"), "ethno jazz", "avant-garde".

The core team is :
*Igor Krutogolov: bass balalaika, voice, toy accordion, noise
*Ruslan Gross: clarinet, bass clarinet, voice
*Guy Schechter: drums, voice
*Olga Yelensky, accordionThey often play with various guests.

Name

The name of the band is a pun immediately recognizable by all post-Soviet Russophones. In Russia (as well as in other Russophone places), a fictional steamship "Admiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern" from the popular "Prostokvashino" animated film series is very well known, often as part of a catch phrase "Admiral I.F.Kruzenshtern, a man and a steamship", "pirated" from the title of a requiem poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, "To Comrade Nette, a Man and a Steamship". The fictional steamship is named after the Baltic-German explorer in Russian services, admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, as is since 1946 a real sailing ship, the "Kruzenshtern".

Discography

*"The Craft Of Primitive Klezmer" (2003, Auris Media label)
#Mishegene Parovoz
#Focus Pocus
#Danglers Song
#Semitic Tango
#Dancing
#March
#Cul-De-Sac
#Vontzn In The Box
#Sippurim
#Tort

*"Songs" (2004)

#Boker 1:51
#Joy 7:29
#Shtetl 2:31
#Tzohoraim 1:05
#Mehalalot 3:22
#Young ones 8:19
#Erev 1:50
#Portrait of a sitting Man in a Hat 5:31
#Kolbasa 5:46
#Laila 2:17
#Sippurim (to Leonid Soybelman) 8:39
#Shmock on the water 6:34
#Boker 5:08

*"Live in Karaganda" (2004}

#Joy
#Meholalot
#Young Ones
#Tort
#Sippurim II
#Dangler's Song
#March
#Shmock on the Water
#Portrait of a Sitting Man in a Hat

*"K&P / Vialka" (split CD, Auris Media, 2006)

:The first five songs are by French duo Vialka described as "gypsy turbofolkpunk" [ [http://www.progressiveworld.net/html/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=1785 "K&P / Vialka" album review] ] )

#Bamako 5:45
#Nanaimo 6:23
#Singes Merdiques 1:28
#Gothenburg 4:12
#Usaisamonster 2:38
#Tort (with accordion) 5:23
#Young Ones (with accordion) 7:40
#Piratskaja 3:31
#Karate 4:20

References

External links

* [http://www.parohod.net/index.html K&P website]
* [http://www.aurismedia.com/records/aum001.php Auris Media: -"The Craft of Primitive Klezmer"]
* [http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/k&p/songs/k&p.songs.html A review at klezmershack.com]