5/23/08, 12:00 pm EST
The Zydepunks — a New Orleans quintet with dueling accordions and fiddles instead of rock guitars — play a fast, whirling music that is not just zydeco and way more than punk. Their set at this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival had the Cajun waltzers baffled. Everyone else just jumped for joy to the speed-core mélange of klezmer tornadoes, Balkan dances, Celtic reels and bayou-squeezebox war — also available, at high velocity, on the band’s latest album, Exile Waltz (Nine Mile).
Francesco Sinibaldi | 5/25/2008, 10:07 am EST
The long vigils of the night.
Near an alley,
and where magical
violins look like
a melody of
an ancient good
sense, you hear
the first light
of a springtime and
always, in all its
meanings, the luminous
wisdom forgets a
white candle.
Francesco Sinibaldi
R. Pollard | 5/24/2008, 1:15 pm EST
Awesome band! Nice to see them getting their due. Viva La Zydepunks!!
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