One of the reasons I love Deleon so much is that they are a band that doesn’t just play Sephardic music — they use Sephardic music and the Ladino language as a starting point to write original songs, dip into different genres (samba, rhumba, alt-rock, retro-Meat Puppets style, and Joey Bishop-influenced lounge are just a few) and make a whole cultural mess that is derivative of, and resembles, nothing else in the universe.
This is their new video. And it is one more reason why we love them.
Sephardic
Pronounced: seh-FAR-dik, Origin: Hebrew, describing Jews descending from the Jews of Spain.
