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Including the track, "Waiting," which Woody Allen used on the soundtrack of "Deconstructing Harry", this album found Shirim at a crossroads: while still playing some of the best traditional music around, the band was also stretching the boundaries with original tunes and arrangements which were redefining what klezmer music could be. It was really a foreshadowing of the "radical Jewish culture" movement which was soon to take New York by storm. On the traditional side, rocking performances of "What Can You Makh?" (Yiddish Theater), and "Nokh a gleyzl vayn" (Dave Tarras), and on the progressive side a fierce and adventurous recomposition of the Yiddish folk song, "Az men fort kayn Sevastopol" and the ethereal pulsations of the original title track. A couple of years later the band split into two bands, using the Naftule’s Dream moniker as the name for the new band.
Audio Samples:Sevastopol, Seams
