Kontra kvartet SHATSER CHUSIDL (Akord Records / Kulturni center Maribor, ARCD 025 / FREE CD 047, 2013) Dear listeners, radio hosts and music lovers, Akord Records, a label under Kulturni center Maribor has published the single: Kontra kvartet – Shatser Chusidl The song was released on their debut album: Shalom The single is available through the following links: Video Single: https://youtu.be/w0hAAWqNwSY MP3: http://www.ljudmila.org/subkulturni-azil/front/img/admin/file/Kontra_kvartet_-_Shatser_Chusidl.mp3 MP3 zip: http://www.ljudmila.org/subkulturni-azil/front/img/admin/file/Kontra_kvartet_-_Shatser_Chusidl_MP3.zip WAV: http://www.ljudmila.org/subkulturni-azil/front/img/admin/file/Kontra_kvartet_-_Shatser_Chusidl_WAV.zip

Acoustic ethno-folk group Kontra kvartet comes from Maribor, Slovenia. Academically trained professional musicians, who do not have Jewish roots themselves, found a common way of expression by playing a genre of Jewish traditional music known as klezmer. Klezmer is a musical tradition of Jewish troubadours which includes many popular songs from various indigenous cultures: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Greek, Hungarian, Gypsy (Roma), Balkan, Ottoman (Turkish), Arabic.This fusion of different traditions together with assimilated American jazz genre is what represents a challenge for the members of Kontra-Kvartet. Klezmer is a vibrant, melodic, sensual, joyous, yet very dramatic music full of passion, that won’t leave you indifferent. In the year 2011 the group successfully performed at the Klezmer Festival in Tzafat (northern Israel)