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Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird

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Daniel Kahn during a concert with his group in Luxembourg (January 2013)

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird is a klezmer band founded by the US singer from Detroit, songwriter and actor Daniel Kahn. The band was founded in 2005 and is based in Berlin. In the past years there were four releases at Berlin world music label Oriente Musik.

Their music is described as "a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk".[1]

Discography

  • The Broken Tongue (Chasma Records 2006;[2] re-release Oriente Musik 2009)
  • Partisans & Parasites (Oriente Musik 2009)
  • Lost Causes (Oriente Musik 2010)
  • Bad Old Songs (Oriente Musik 2012)

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