When you fall in love with trip-hop you start roaming the stores for more and more. Only after discovering all the jazzy, deep, female-vocals etc. possible trip-hop you stop. And at this moment if you’ll decide to search for more you will have the possibility to stumble upon this beyond-trip-hop band fuelled by a good amount of klezmer.
For those who don’t know klezmer is traditional Jewish music. It is a whole universe of arrangements and variations of traditional melodies. The genre is mostly played by Klezmer Bands all over the world but some of the representatives like Oi Va Voi take more experimental approach. In this case trip-hop.
Their best album is 2003 – Laughter Through Tears. Kicking of with Refugee sung by Kate Tunstall, her first solo breakthrough song Suddenly I See was used in the opening scene of The Devil Wears Prada movie. On this plate she was still unknown but it has no effect on the beauty of the track. The whole album is not like filled with major radio hits, it is a good klezmer-balkan vibe record with good bass lines and small programming. Definitely one of the things that you must have.
