Featuring Zoë Aqua on violin and Raffi Boden on cello, Ira Khonen Temple’s debut album Strange Tongue - Mistame Loshn is an exuberant and irreverent entanglement with Yiddish protest music, love songs, and anthems.  It’s queer, trans antifolk music that’s informed by klezmer and Romanian dance. It’s totally bilingual and an amazing gateway into a defiant tradition of survival and solidarity. Raucous and intimate in turns, this music makes as much space for joy as it does for grief.