- Tanz (album)
Infobox Album
Name = Tanz
Type = album
Artist =Tim Sparks
Released = September 26, 2000
Recorded =June 4 ,2000
Genre = Klezmer, world, jazz
Length =
Label = Tzadik
Producer =Tim Sparks John Zorn (executive producer)
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wjfyxqtkld0e link]
Last album = "Neshamah " (1999)
This album = "Tanz" (2000)
Next album = "At The Rebbe's Table " (2002)"Tanz" is the title of the second recording by guitaris
Tim Sparks on theTzadik Records label. "Tanz" means "dance."Allmusic stated "Sparks comes from a classical guitar background more than a fingerpicking folky background, and his virtuosic technique is incredible, but always in service to the music, not merely technique."Track listing
# "Wie Bist Die Gewesen Vor Prohibition?" (What Were You Doing During Prohibition?) (
Naftule Brandwein ) – 3:53
# "Min Khatrat" (Do Not Walk at Night) (Sham'a Avakam, Jewish-Yeminite trad.) – 4:16
# "Bolgarskii Zhok" (Bulgar Dance) (Rumanian trad.) – 3:25
# "Araber Tanz" (Naftule Brandwein) – 3:56
# "Dos Oybershte Fun Shtoysl" (The Most Conceited of All) (Yiddish trad.) – 4:53
# "Der Terk In America" (Naftule Brandwein) – 4:51
# "Fufzehn Yahr Fon Der Heim Awek" (Fifteen Years Away From Home) (Naftule Brandwein) – 3:26
# "Hila Wasa" (Karamanji Azdro, Judeo-Kurdish trad.) – 2:53
# "Aji Tu Yorma?" (Where Are You My Lover?) (Dagestan, Judeo-Azeri trad.) – 4:27
# "Tanst, Tanst Yidelekh" (Dance Little Yid) (Yiddish trad.) – 3:02
# "Gut Morgn" (Good Morning) (Yiddish trad.) – 2:22
# "Ayumati Te'Orer Ha-Yesheinim" (The Holy Presence Awakens the Sleepers) (Jewish-Yeminite Manakha trad.) – 2:47
# "La Rosa Enflorece" (The Rose in Bloom) (Anonymous, Balkan Sephardic trad) – 4:29Personnel
*Tim Sparks – guitar
*Greg Cohen – bass
*Cyro Baptista – percussionProduction notes
*Produced by Tim Sparks
*Executive producer:John Zorn
*Associate producer: Kazunori Sugiyama
*Recorded by David Baker at Orange Music, NJ
*Mastered by Alan Tucker
*Design by Hueng-Hueng Chin
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