ABOUT US
Der Šenster Gob is an acoustic band from Prague playing Gypsy, Jewish and Balkan music, travelling around Europe in a romantic green wooden caravan. They combine the raw energy and beauty of Eastern European folk music with innovative arrangements, unexpected connections, style jumps and fiery improvisations.
Their music is both very danceable and fun to listen, wanted at festivals, weddings and parties of all kinds, jazz clubs and synagogues. Over the past 14 years, the band has played 650+ shows across 26 countries, including live sessions for the BBC, Czech Radio etc. Don't miss them!
NEW ALBUM OUT NOW!
SHTETL NESHUME
An explosive combination of Der Šenster Gob's raw klezmer, Gypsy and Balkan sound with the charming voice of a charismatic Swiss Yiddish singer Lea Kalisch.
The spirit of an old jewish town put to music through the voices and instruments of today's musicians, who love both the tradition and the modern.
Yiddish cabaret, Jewish pop and multilingual rap, fiery improvisations, innovative arrangements, joy, passion, sorrow and hope.
It's all there!
Reviews of the album have appeared in the main Czech music press such as Full Moon Magazine, Frontman, Deník N, Metro, Radio Proglas etc., and the album charted on the prestigious World Music Charts Europe.
COME TO OUR CONCERT!
LEA KALISCH & DER ŠENSTER GOB
Jewish music has never sounded so eclectic & energetic. Four traveling musicians and a charismatic front woman give tradition a facelift: Yiddish lyrics, Klezmer and Roma melodies, rap, jazz & a charming dose of comedy. A woman as a rabbi? A romance between a clarinet and violin? What else...
Swiss-born, NYC brewed and now Vienna based Lea Kalisch is a
singer and actress, also known as The Eshet Chayil of Hip Hop. She
dedicates herself to Yiddishkeit with zestful & lively energy.
In 2022 she met Der Šenster Gob in the old town of Zurich: A MATCH FROM HEAVEN! A Shiddukh fun himl!
From rap to rumba, from folk to feminism, from cabaret to old klezmer & newer Roma trad-jazz tunes. They mix styles and languages like a smoothie. Lea slips into different characters and makes her audience laugh with one eye and cry with the other.
In September 2024 they released their first album together: SHTETL NESHUME!