"GOLEM produces the sort of music you'd expect if the
shtetl* were filled with punks instead of peasants."
The Washington Post

 Young, hip widely acclaimed New York-based Klezmer/Rock band GOLEM (named after the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague) transforms the music of its Jewish grandparents, making it modern, edgy, sexy and brash. GOLEM has infused the World Music scene with a breath of fresh air from Eastern Europe. Their explosive onstage attitude gets Klezmer to rock.

Fronted by Annette Ezekiel - bandleader, accordionist and singer - as well as madcap vocalist Aaron Diskin and violin virtuoso Alicia Jo Rabins, the band's six members, all in their 20's and 30's, create GOLEM's powerfully vibrant sound.

Through updated versions of old Yiddish tunes, Golem seduces audiences of Klezmer fans and rockers alike, and is equally at home in venues as varied as rock clubs, synagogues, and concert halls, from Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park to the rock clubs of the Lower East Side.

Their new CD, Homesick Songs, is a veritable party in a box. It also possesses a historical message - each track on the album evokes old-world cities, towns and countries longed for by homesick Jewish immigrants: Odessa, Romania, Bukovina, Nikolayev, Belz and Bialystok. The album also features wild gypsy songs that Annette  learned during her travels in Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine. The result is a musical romp through Eastern Europe and beyond. A snapshot of shtetl life through the filter of a much younger generation,

"I tried to imagine how Tom Waits would record a Klezmer album," says Annette Ezekiel, founder of Golem. Songs like "Rumenye" and "Belz" are classic Yiddish fare, but Golem's interpretation of these and other songs puts a new spin on these well known songs.

GOLEM's Jewish music is for the cool kids, not your grandma!