Black Ox Orkestar marked their return to music-making after a 15-year hiatus with the release of last year’s stunningly poignant Everything Returns, an absorbing album which suffused the quartet’s explorations of modern Jewish diasporic music with the spare melancholia of singer-songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. 

Now the ensemble have shared a soul-stirring live reading of ‘Viderkol (Echo)’, a track lifted from that full-length, as they announce an online conversation with journalist, playwright and Yiddish scholar Rokhl Kafrissen. Black Ox invite “fans, journalists, Yiddishists, klezmer-adjacent enthusiasts, and anyone interested in the culture of diasporas,” to join them for an in-depth discussion on April 20, when they will cover topics including “the powers and limits of ‘revival’ and diasporic identity, what it means to make multilingual Jewish music in a time of rising nationalism, and how the band’s music has contributed to the flourishing of Yiddish art and culture in the early 21st century.”

Register here for Everything Returns: A Conversation with Black Ox Orkestar and Rokhl Kafrissen