With the release of their groundbreaking 1991 debut, New Klezmer Trio established themselves as innovators of the Radical Jewish Culture movement. The Bay Area trio took the raw elements of traditional klezmer and fused it with avant-garde jazz and experimental rock, creating something new in the process. They recorded two additional albums, Melt Zonk Rewire (1996) and Short for Something (2000) for John Zorn's Tzadik label.