"Bundy the Husband - 1956"
From Joka by Gidon Carmel and Kyle Morton
Dear Reader,
“Bundy the Husband - 1956” — the fifth single from Joka, the upcoming album by Gidon Carmel and Kyle Morton — is out now.
Bundy was Gidon’s grandfather and Joka’s husband. Like his wife, he lost almost his entire family in Auschwitz. He survived the camp and the death march that followed.
He used to tell a story about how, toward the end of the march, he had given up. Exhausted, he lay down across a train track and waited for it to end.
At that moment, a farmer collecting bodies picked him up, believing he was already dead. The farmer accidentally saved his life.
This song is from a husband to his beloved wife, set in a refugee camp in Austria shortly after they had escaped the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.
“Bundy the Husband - 1956”
Available on streaming platforms today.
And here’s a short video of me playing the song in my studio:
Read more about the project at joka-music-project.com
Or you can pre-order the vinyl at Popup Records right here.
Yrs,
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