Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

About Me

Verfremdungsklezmer = Punk Cabaret + Radical Yiddish Song + Gothic American Folk + Klezmer Danse Macabre. Fronted by jewish-Detroiter singer-songwriter Daniel Kahn on vocals, accordion, piano and guitar with East German Bert Hildebrandt on clarinets, US expat composer Michael Tuttle on upright bass, Swedish jazz drummer Hampus Melin and a rotating roster of some of Berlin and New Yorks best young Klezmer and Balkan players, the band was formed in Berlin in fall of 2005. Their first album, The Broken Tongue, was released on Chamsa Records in Fall 2006 to much acclaim. Like the grotesque Jerzy Kozinski novel from which they take their name, The Painted Bird reminds us that even if man is only an animal, he can still sing.
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Member Since: 6/5/2006
Band Website: paintedbird.net
Band Members: Daniel Kahn: Vocals, Accordion, Piano, Guitar
Bert Hildebrandt: Clarinets
Michael Tuttle: Upright Bass
Hampus Melin: Drums
fellow travellers:
Michael Winograd: Clarinet
Johannes Paul Graesser: Fiddle
Detlef Pegelow: Tuba, Drums
Brandon Seabrook: Guitar, Banjo
Eric Rosenthal: Drums
David Symons: Accordion
Dan Blacksberg: Trombone
Influences: Bertolt Brecht, Leonard Cohen, Brave Old World, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Nick Cave, Mordecai Gebirtig, Woody Guthrie, The Pogues, Our fucking selves
Sounds Like: If you take a bird and paint it all sorts of pretty colors, then release it into a flock of its own kind, the other birds will attack it in mid air until it falls from the sky, dead.
Record Label: Chamsa Records, Earthwork Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Daniel Kahn interview in Exberliner Magazine

This is an interview published in the June issue of Exberliner magazine, the english language expatriot magazine of Berlin. Check it out online athttp://www.exberliner.net/verbatim.php?action=in...
Posted by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:54:00 PST

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird in U.S.&A.

ATTENTION ORNITHOLOGISTS:From April 4th until mid-may, The Painted Bird will embark on a rare migratory pattern through the subterranean jungles of north america. Singer/Accordionist Daniel Kahn...
Posted by Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST