"There are so many books in the world, but none of them can describe what I feel for you. … Let me hear you say it once more – tell me, you gotta crush on me…"
In the new program performed by Gefilte Fish everything revolves around love and happiness: If and how you can find both, what really makes you happy and what it feels like to be in love.
The songs tell of dark eyes, throbbing hearts, a singing nightingale and a night filled with the scent of roses, but also about the darker aspects of love which weigh so heavily on the heart. At the same time it’s not just about passionate love. Anyone dealing with love can show it in many different ways: the love of God, of one’s parents and family, loving one’s neighbor, as well as one’s self.
The five musicians of Gefilte Fish are crossing cultural borders again: from the old world of the European Schtetl – the small Jewish towns or villages of eastern Europe, and the Spanish Sepharad, to the new world, the new age, to America and Israel.
" One could play the same songs in a completely different way", Andrea Giani the female vocalist of the quintet explains, "because the pieces which have been handed down to us contain only a melody, the text, and a chord chart." It’s up to the artists themselves, how they put life in them. The experiences of each member of the band, both personal and musical, flow together in cooperation with each other. Thus, arrangements come about, custom made, as it were, each stamped with the sensually melancholic and poetic accents and identity of each of the performers, which can be sensed in every bar of music.
The songs are sung in Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew.
"Gefilte Fish" is a Jewish dish for high days and holidays, for which there are as many recipes as there are cooks. It is also a musical entertainment, a feast for the ears: "Farlibt" (in love) – an album full of heart and soul, and emotion.
