Tummel

Sweden
http://www.tummel.nu/pages/information.shtml

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Tummel is a klezmer and Balkan band based in Malmö, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark. From the start in 1997 they won the hearts of the Malmö audience, and have since then won a growing number of fans across Sweden, Denmark, the UK, Italy, Slovenia and Estonia.

Tummel plays traditional klezmer and Balkan music, but arranged in their own, often untraditional way, and also write their own material. Although all band members are strong instrumentalists, what makes the crowd go wild at a Tummel concert is their extraordinary capability as a live band. The Tumlers spare no effort to give the audience a once in a lifetime experience, leaving the audience gasping for breath with sweat flowing from their armpits. As a reflection of the history this music has floated through, their music involves elements of both extreme pleasure and extreme pain. But in Tummel´s case, the pleasure and joy is the first and foremost ingredient.

“Tummel” is, in Yiddish, the sound that arises from a totally unrestrained party. “Ein Tumler“ is a guy hired by the host of the party to keep the partying frenzy up, whatever the cost.

• Tobias Allvin – guitar, bouzouki
• Edin Bahtijaragic – accordion
• Annika Jessen – clarinet
• Pär Moberg – saxophone
• Jonatan Aisen – drums
• Øivind Slaatto – tuba, trombone
• Andreas Rudenå – fiddle, guitar