Mostly Kosher

Mostly Kosher, a Los Angeles based indie-global-collective, radically reconstructs Judaic and American cultural musical
roots. Through ravenous post-klezmer beats and arresting Yiddish refrains, Mostly Kosher is a musical feast that explodes
into a global food-fight of Jazz, Latin, Rock, Hip Hop, World and Folk. These fearless soundsmiths highlight the architecture of heritage music and yet raze it to the ground.
Mostly Kosher has rallied an international legion of fans and is on a trajectory to bring their rhythmic hullabaloo to all of
the streaming sound waves across the planet. Mostly Kosher is a fixture at renowned Los Angeles stages such as the John
Anson Ford Theater and Skirball Center, while most recently gracing the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for a live
television broadcast to over half a million viewers. Their self-titled debut album has won international acclaim through
recognition by World Music Network, Songlines Magazine, and BBC radio. Mostly Kosher’s first track, Ikh Hob Dikh Tsufil
Lib (I Love You Much Too Much), was recognized as one of World Music Network’s Top 6 Songs of 2014.
Mostly Kosher emerged as bandleader Leeav Sofer’s bold attempt to assemble a klezmer band after impulsively
committing to perform a genre of music he had never touched before. Calling upon his friends out of CSU Long Beach, all
accomplished musicians individually, Sofer brought together an octet (quartet) that reinvented the folk sounds and swings of Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Sofer recruited Janice Mautner Markham, a punk-rock jewess shredding violin out of the folk/rock scene to bring intensity to both the soundscape and stage. With surgical precision, yet pent up scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs rock and roll energy, Eric Hagstrom lays the beat over Adam Levy’s soulful and magnetic sensibility on the bass, drawing the audience in. The Dick Van Dyke of the new millennium, Mike Bolger plays both accordion and trumpet, joined by Mike King’s boisterous trombone and Will Brahm’s virtuosic guitar.