News: The Gangsta Rabbi - Opus #73: Timex Kid / Elvis 1990 / Petrol Holiday / Soldier at 63 (2021)
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Steve Liebermann - Opus #73: Timex Kid / Elvis 1990 / Petrol Holiday / Soldier at 63
Release Date: June 23, 2021
Length: 67:15
Genre: Freakshow / Noise / Experimental
Origin: Freeport, New York, USA
Have you
heard about The Gangsta Rabbi? The artist meant here is not Brooklyn’s rapper Ron
Raphael Braunstein who called himself “Tough Jew” and “Rabbi
Holding Guns”. The Gangsta Rabbi is Steve Liebermann from
Freeport, New York, also known as The Jewish King of Punk. Under his nom de
guerre Gangsta Rabbi, Liebermann recently fulfilled one of his dreams,
and he broke a Guinness World Records Title by releasing the longest song ever
recorded. Containing 48 opuses, the title “The Noise Militia (#38/76) runs for
impressing 35 hours, 41 minutes, and 9 seconds. Find out more about this world
record that Steve Liebermann broke after being diagnosed with
terminal leukaemia by clicking here.
More
recently, Steve Liebermann, The Gansta Rabbi released another new work
that is a lot shorter than “The Noise Militia (#38/76), but still is pretty long
for a single track. On June 23, 2021, the Freeport-based artist published “Opus
#73: Timex Kid / Elvis 1990 / Petrol Holiday / Soldier at 63”, 67 minutes and
15 seconds if eclectic, artistic, and noisy sounds. Again, the new track does
not consist of one main theme but is a collection of four songs which together
form the latest opus.
The Gansta
Rabbi’s one-hour output is another power demonstration of the
multi-instrumentalist’s musical skill. You can hear a huge load of digital and
analogue instruments which have all been played and recorded by Steve Liebermann himself. Thus, The Gangsta Rabbi appears like a one-person
marching band taking up a whole avenue with massive sounds and noises.
Describing
the music that Steve Liebermann plays on “Opus #73: Timex Kid /
Elvis 1990 / Petrol Holiday / Soldier at 63” is not quite the easiest thing to
do. The Gangsta Rabbi’s new opus is a boiling and huge melting pot of different
styles, genres, and forms of artistic insanity. You can hear Jazz in the rhythms
and arrangements, you can spot Heavy Metal impact in the riffs, you cannot miss
the dominant Noise impact on the soundscapes, while the melodies are influenced
by Klezmer and Folk – especially due to the flutes. And after all, the opulent
and intense soundscapes are punk as hell in two ways. On the one hand, this
whole multi-genre freakshow obviously denies categories and blinders – how punk
is that? And on the other hand, Steve Liebermann implements
rhythms and riffs that resemble 1980s East Coast Hardcore Punk to his four-song
release.
The only
other artist, I can slightly compare this beautiful sonic madness to, is taylorshit.net.
The Gangsta Rabbi has hereby created an intense work of experimental music. May
Steve Liebermann’s magic days last long, and may his music never
stop.
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