Old Stock - LP

Ben Caplan – Old Stock
 12” Vinyl
 Release Date: June 15, 2018

Old Stock, Ben Caplan's third studio album, serves as a companion to the award-winning theatrical production Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. Recorded in New York City in anticipation of the play's Off-Broadway debut, the album delves into narratives of migration, love, and survival. The music engages playfully with Klezmer and other Eastern European folk traditions. Caplan's robust vocals are complemented by soaring violin and clarinet, accordion, drums, piano, and guitars. 

While maintaining its Eastern European influences and instrumentation, the album strays through a widely eclectic mix of styles. From the irreverent and folksy Truth Doesn’t Live in a Book to the demonic and bombastic Plough the Shit, the album is full of musical surprises and richly poetic lyrics. 

Tracks:

1. Traveller's Curse
2. You've Arrived
3. Intermezzo 1
4. Truth Doesn't Live in a Book
5. Od Yishama
6. The Happy People
7. Minimum Intervals
8. Widow Bride
9. Intermezzo 2
10. Plough the Shit
11. Lullaby
12. Fledgling
13. What Love Can Heartbreak Allow?