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A while ago, someone I didn't know died. He was an LJ person that some friends of mine here knew and liked. I read back through his journal and kinda liked him too.

He was a serious left winger, and someone posted an MP3 of "The Internationale" that was his favorite. I downloaded it and loved it too! It sounded very klezmer, but I couldn't pick out the language, and there wasn't any artist info in the file.

I was reminded of it the other day by seeing this huge collection of versions of the Internationale in 20 languages, so I went on a search for "klezmer Internationale".

Found it! It is, of course a Japanese Klezmer Internationale done by a group called Soul Flower Mononoke Summit, from their album "Levelers Ching Dong". And it's on that big page, too, as I noticed when I went back to see if the Internationale collector had it.

So anyway that's my Obscure Japanese Communist Klezmer-Ish Folk Music story for the day.

Bartleby forever.

Date: 2005-08-04 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] substitute.livejournal.com
Thank you, I had forgotten his LJ name. Wish I'd met him.

Re: Bartleby forever.

Date: 2005-08-04 10:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] douglain.livejournal.com
Me too. I did correspond a bit with him online.

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