Live In Cracow

Live in Cracow captures Hasidic New Wave at full combustion — Hasidic nigunim pushed through funk, electric jazz, and downtown free improvisation. Co‑leaders Frank London (trumpet) and Greg Wall (saxophone) drive the band with ecstatic intensity, joined by David “Fuze” Fiuczynski (guitar), Fima Ephron (bass), and Aaron Alexander (drums). The set moves from Middle Eastern inflections to modal uplift, blues‑tinged lament, and high‑velocity downtown fire, with Fiuczynski’s microtonal guitar slicing through the ensemble and the rhythm section keeping the music warm, elastic, and propulsive.

The Kraków audience becomes part of the performance, turning the concert into a communal eruption rather than a typical avant‑garde set. In this charged setting — New York’s Radical Jewish Culture colliding with the Polish landscape from which so much Jewish musical memory once radiated — the music feels like a return and renewal. Live in Cracow stands as one of Not Two’s most distinctive early live documents: a cultural feedback loop rendered in sound, fierce, joyful, and unmistakably alive.