Davka | pt

Davka has been striving since its inception to create a new instrumental Jewish music based on the major musical influences of the modern Jewish world; klezmer/Yiddish music, Middle-Eastern/Sephardic music, Western classical music, and elements of American jazz and pop music. The resulting synthesis of these seemingly disparate elements came together quite organically, and the band quickly began composing new music based on this dynamic new style that seemed to already exist and was yearning to be expressed. The boundaries of this style are, have been, and continue to be hotly debated amongst the band members. Thus far, blows have been...