ZOYRES EASTERN EUROPEAN WILD FERMENT: Reunion Show and Sauerkraut Sampling
Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment has been delighting Bay Area audiences since 2004 with their inventive take on klezmer and Balkan music and their home-brewed and fermented pickles, krauts, kimchees, beers, and wines (which often accompany Zoyres performances). Over the years, Zoyres has developed a dynamic collective sound that’s complex and catchy, down-home and danceable. Drawing on Eastern European folk music, free improvisation, jazz, rock, and drum-n-bass, the Zoyres recipe is a fusion nonpareil-an exciting new taste based on Old World flavors!
Mike Perlmutter: alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet
Liam Staskawicz: trombone
Jonathan Russell: clarinet, bass clarinet
Josh Sirotiak: tuba
Eddie Pollard: drums
From Zoyres: “The name ‘Zoyres’ derives from the Yiddish term for fermented vegetables, ‘zoyers.’ These foods have been transformed by culture and community (of the microbial sort) through incredible biochemical fermentation processes. These ‘cultural’ transformations underlie our own cultural development, as humans have relied and reveled in fermented foods for millennia. Zoyres’s music represents the geo-social analogue to the biochemical ferment. Our music, of Eastern European origin, brined in the contemporary cultural milieu, is akin to the pickle, still evident in its cucumbral origin, but with a taste and texture transformed.”
“Set up as a folk band but equally influenced by jazz, Zoyres offers fascinating interpretations of ancient Balkan and klezmer songs, plus some original material that adds weird meters and jazzy horn solos to the old song structures. Zoyres advertises itself as a dance band, partly because of the tautness of its rhythms, and partly because it sounds a lot bigger than it actually is. But the band’s real selling point is that its members have real chops.”
-Rachel Swan, East Bay Express
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$10 – $15 admission. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.
