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| | Recording review: Brave Old World, Blood Oranges |
 | | But, this is not diversity in the sense of "here a sephardic tune, there something from Israel." There are Sephardic improvisations in the haunting "The Heretic," but rather than merely present a wide variety of Jewish music, the band is also creating new Jewish music as it goes. |
 | | It is an interesting zig at a time when the Klezmatics, who I usually think of as the intense, "out there" klez-based band doing Jewish music fusion, switch gears on their album, Possessed, and go far deeper and traditional. |
 | | Here, Brave Old World catches the baton and becomes the band covering the wide territory and scouting out the edges where Jewish music and soul meet the world, bursting forth to the world (to paraphrase Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai, "b'ktze ha-sadeh / At the edge of the field"). |
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