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Brave Old World are masters at taking klezmer roots and making them sound of this time and place. This isn't really traditional klezmer music, but that's what it feels like until you listen closely and realize how many innovations are present in the music. And, frankly, that's what klezmer should be -- not stiff museum music, but living, dance-compelling music for today. When I hear recordings of Brave Old World . . . I think of the divine, the rootedness, and wonder, and inevitably my feet start moving and I dance a dance of being in the here-and-now and being able to share that space with Brave Old World. Alle yid'n a mazl tove. . . . It's a blessing.' --Ari Davidow