Tempero - 4/7/2014

Tempero perform most nights in the Isaac synagogue in Krakow - it's a tourist gig really, presumably to raise funds for the place but for all that it is a superb set based on traditional Klezmer music with four excellent musicians. The accordion player was perfect and his interplay with the fiddle player as they ramped up the tempo was the heart of the music. The drummer was also notable - he seemed to have an endless variety of means to produce percussive sounds from blocks of wood, rattles, shakers and of course his small set of drums as well. The set was not pure traditional Klezmer but there was an authenticity to the overall sound and the acoustics and setting of the old synagogue were ideal. A bargain for 60 zloty.