Featured Artist: Hasidic New Wave
* CD Title: Kabalogy
* Year: 1999
* Record Label: Knitting Factory Works
* Personnel: London, tpt; Wall, sax; David Fiuczynski, guitar; Fima Ephron, b; Aaron Alexander, d.

* Review: The Hasidic New Wave is a NYC-based group that puts its own spin on the ancient/modern folk-based urban Jewish music known as klezmer. They merge ancient Hebrew melodies with hard bop so fine that the shade of Woody Shaw must be guiding them, as well as dense electric textures that sound like Weather Report (circa I Sing The Body Electric) after a field trips to Jerusalem and a few Passover seders. The sharp, edgy guitar work recalls (a bit) pre-Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and Terje Rypdal, the trumpet is well-rounded & bristling and the saxophone Coltrane-tinged, haunting & mysterious. Kabalogy is an album of rich textures and soundscapes that engage the consciousness and rhythms that move the spirit. VERY highly recommended to the eclectic.

* Reviewed by: Mark Keresman