Kleztronica is Yiddish techno
How Chaia fuses Yiddish folk samples with melodies and rhythms to create a new kind of electronic protest music
In 2017, New York-based Chaia started making “kleztronica”, a blend of traditional klezmer music, samples, live singing and cerebral, unwieldy techno. Seven years later she is heralded as the founder and leader of the steadily growing genre and her distinctive, wildly inventive music has taken her to perform as far as Berlin, Vienna, and this week…
