“Genre-hopping dance fun” The Guardian -

“Cool, crazy and kosher combination of Jewish, Caribbean, Latin and vintage rock ‘n’ roll” Froots -

“London-based big band reinventing the sound of the Jewish Twist, or der shvitz” Evening Standard -

“An alternative goodtime party record by a super-tight big band” Independent on Sunday -

Go Mani Go Vinyl

The highly acclaimed eight piece Yiddish Twist Orchestra (YTO) have followed up their first hugely successful album ‘Let’s’ with a new four track vinyl EP ‘Go Mani Go’ on the band’s own label – YTO Records.

Featuring two vocal tracks: ‘No Coins (in the fountain)’ and ‘Go Mani Go’ sung by the irrepressible Natty Bo; and two instrumentals: ‘Shake Your Pick’ and ’Rotem’s Epl’ – all tracks currently feature in the band’s live shows.

Recorded at Konk Studios, the EP was produced and mixed by Andrew J. Jones.

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“It is always the seam on your trousers that attracts the most dirt”…

…said Alf Wax, the great Whitechapel tailor, and back in late 1950s London the same was undoubtedly true for music – it was the seam of the big band and rock’n’roll eras that produced what sounds now like the dirtiest, most deliriously danceable music of all: a delirious mix of West Indian Calypso, mambo, surf guitar, classic Yiddish songs and English beat rhythms that they called ‘der shvitz’. When years later it crossed the Atlantic in diluted form as ‘the twist’ its roots were forgotten, and remained so, with the exception of a select few in the know who recognise Willy Bergman, its founder and greatest bandleader, as the lost hero of the sex n drugs British music revolution.