Orkestar Kriminal

Ganovim-loshn" ("thieves' language") was the Yiddish sung in the inter-war underworld of Warsaw, Odessa, and Istanbul. These are no ordinary folk songs. There is much violence and lament in them... the extremes of the Jewish wise-guy. Along with their Yiddish gangster repertoire, Orkestar Kriminal has absorbed the Rebetika Mortika hash den anthems of the 1930s Greek underground. They can also be found performing in Khmer, Spanish, Danish, Romani, Ladino, Russian, Vietnamese, Hebrew, or whatever other tongue might attract the multilingual stylings of frontwoman Giselle Claudia Webber. So long as the tune is catchy and a little shady, they'll give it their best shot.