As a Jew with Eastern European roots, this is more or less the music of my people - melodies I’ve heard since I was an infant, songs I’ve danced to at weddings and bar mitzvahs. It must have imprinted on my brain deeply, because I’m still a sucker for all the gimmicks in the klezmer bag of tricks - breakneck speed, big crescendos and accelerandos, and long knotty melodies (Ivo Papasov plays his clarinet like a broken robot). Zdob si Zdub closes the set by putting these tropes in a rock context, an inspired combination.