Bach2Bach DJs

04/23/2025

Next Wednesday, April 30th, come join us at bar in Brooklyn. We’ll be spinning our grooviest classical jams

01/08/2024

This Saturday, we return to the decks at bringing you classical music that’s been adapted to soul, psych, rock, jazz, cumbia, disco and more. Gonna keep y’all grooving from 9pm-1am
Would love to see y’all there 🕺🏻

04/30/2023

This Sunday, we return to with some groovy classical covers that will hit you like a monster truck running over a flaming cello. Come scream with the team and munch on some brunch 🔥🎻

07/05/2022

👋 We’re thrilled to be back behind the decks at this Sunday 4-7pm!

05/09/2022

My cousin sang in the choir for this, and I got to listen to it live on streaming. There’s a link to listen, which will be up until May 21st. It’s an absolutely stunning and powerful piece of music. Highly recommended.

03/30/2022

This Sunday, we’ll be DJing brunch at in scenic Port Richmond! They’ve got wonderful food and drinks and a friendly staff. Couldn’t ask for a better way to spend the afternoon

03/06/2022

New ALL BACH episode of Bach2Bach Radio, celebrating the man’s birth month. Enjoy!

https://www.mixcloud.com/Bach2Bach/bach2bach-radio-episode-2-all-bach/

All Bach episode of Bach2Bach Radio

02/22/2022

Swingle II
“Passereau: Il Est Bel Et Bon” from Love Songs for Madrigals and Madriguys (Columbia, UK 1974)

Cover of Pierre Passereau- Il Est Bel Et Bon

This was the first album released under the name Swingle II. The Swingle Singers we’re formed by Ward Swingle in 1962 in Paris. They started as a singing group on recording sessions for artists such as Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf. (The original lead soprano in the group was Christiane Legrand, aunt of Victoria Legrand from Beach House. She doesn’t sing on this album though) As a sight reading exercise, the group tried singing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and found the the music had a natural swing. After that discovery, they made many many recordings of classical repertoire. In 1973, Ward Swingle disbanded the group, moved to England, and formed a new group called Swingle II, (also known as The Swingles or The New Swingle Singers) this being their first LP. The Swingles still perform to this day, with a much altered lineup and without Ward Swingle, who passed away in 2015.

Pierre Passereau was a French renaissance composer from the first half of the 16th century. He’s not especially well known, and this piece is his most famous. His known output is almost entirely chansons, and those often consisted of material containing double entendres and obscenity. The liner notes summarize the lyrics this way: “Two gossipy women vaunt their husbands virtues, while some chickens express surprised disagreement.” Other searching suggested the “husbands virtues” in question may have been of a rather sensual nature. The syncopated vocal lines are apparently meant to imitate the clucking of chickens. Interesting song.
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#1974

02/07/2022

Hi everyone! Just a quick announcement: we’re starting up a monthly mix series on our Mixcloud. We’ll be spinning not only the usual classical bangers that we play out in our live sets, but also feature the more toned down and experimental works from our collection. The first of our series is up, link is in the bio, of course. We think it’ll be an interesting and enjoyable listening experience for you all. Thanks for checking it out!

12/29/2021

Baris Manço “Küçük Bir Gece Müzigi” from Dünden Bugüne (Sayan, Turkey 1971) …(our copy is a reissue on Guerssen from 2009)

Adaptation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Adagio (Serenade no. 13 for Strings in G Major) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Baris Manço was a very popular Turkish rock musician. This track is from his excellent first album, which was mostly a compilation of his early 45s. The track was originally the B side to “Derule” in 1970. This is just speculation, but it sounds as though it was maybe an impromptu jam on the Mozart theme that was recorded on the spot. It doesn’t have a very fleshed out feel to it, which is part of its charm. It features a super hot drum intro too.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (a little serenade) was completed in 1787, but it wasn’t published until well after Mozart’s death, in about 1827. It has become one of his most well-known compositions, and we definitely have some other totally different versions in our collections.

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#1971

11/30/2021

We’re back on the decks at next Thursday 12/9 from 7-11pm 💥💥💥 All kinds of new discoveries to bust out! Come chill :)

11/19/2021

Raymond Guiot “Allegro No. 1” from Haendel With Care (Ariola , Germany 1973?)

Adaptation of the 2nd movement (allegro) from Flute Sonata No. 1 in e minor by G.F. Handel

Another breezy Raymond Guiot classical covers record. He’s previously adapted Bach (Bach Street) and Scarlatti (Plays Scarlatti), as well as Baroque Jazz Quintet for Tele Music, but this one has a much more clever album title

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