The paprika fields of Harringay

I thought Saturday was slow... Today I didn't even wake up until 2.30pm, and that was only because of the piercing shrieks of next-door's demon child.

Still, I must have needed the sleep!

To suit the mood, how about some "Sunday music" - courtesy of a brand new discovery, the Budapest Café Orchestra?

They'll tackle anything, it seems - from Rachmaninov...

Budapest Café Orchestra - Squeezebox Concerto

...to Bow Wow Wow!

Budapest Café Orchestra - I Want Candy

Another surprise - the band was founded in our old neighbourhood, and in fact they humorously describe themselves as "the famous four of the paprika fields of Harringay"! They even have a musical tribute to the place:

Budapest Café Orchestra - the very Harringay Rhapsody

We must look out for any "homecoming concerts"!

Domestic Klezmer

Having just discovered - after several weeks tweaking settings and reporting it as a fault - that another of the saintly Google's products, YouTube, has unilaterally and without prior notice stopped sending notification emails when a subscribed channel uploads a new video, it was only by chance that I spotted this slice of brilliance had been uploaded by the BBC as part of its socially-distanced "Instrumental Sessions" series [see here and here for more]:

The Clarinets of the BBC Orchestras - Fantasy on Odessa Bulgar (Lenny Sayers)

Gawd bless the BBC!

Sod Google.

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Footnote

The composer/arranger of the excellent piece above is not merely a Klezmer clarinet specialist, but also a proud Welshman.

It was thus inevitable, I suppose, that he would lend his talents to producing a combination of the two things - in this faboo version of an old Welsh folk song (usually heard sung by male voice choirs and rugby crowds):

Lenny Sayers - Sosban Fach (Klezmer style)

When worlds collide...

Sie hat hier schon alle Männer abgecheckt

As the fantastically eclectic Dangerous Minds says...

"...here’s that amazing klezmer cover of Kraftwerk you needed in your life!"

Das Model by the Knoblauch Klezmer Band (and their rather cute singer):

Knoblauch Klezmer Band - Das Model

L'Chayim!