"Oy Division is one of the only bands in Israel which perform the old style folk music of eastern-European Jews, generally known as Klezmer. Their repertoire is a mix of instrumental wedding dance music, folk songs and songs originating in the Yiddish theatre, Old music played again with the zeal and exuberance of punks. The members of the band come from different musical backgrounds: Noam Enbar is the lead singer of the exceptional Israeli Post-Rock
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"Oy Division is one of the only bands in Israel which perform the old style folk music of eastern-European Jews, generally known as Klezmer. Their repertoire is a mix of instrumental wedding dance music, folk songs and songs originating in the Yiddish theatre, Old music played again with the zeal and exuberance of punks. The members of the band come from different musical backgrounds: Noam Enbar is the lead singer of the exceptional Israeli Post-Rock band "Ha'Billuyim" (הבילויים); Eyal Talmudi is a leading Israeli and international reed player, who regularly tours the world with the "Balkan Beat Box; Talmudi is an established record producer, composer and a lecturer in the Haifa University department of music; Gershon Leizersohn is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University music department who regularly plays with classical music orchestras and Avichai Tuchman is a prominent indie record producer -- Quoted from their MySpace page (www.myspace.com/oydivision).
