Mr Fishman from Szolnok by Daniel Weltlinger Quartet

'Mr Fishman' paints a portrait of a new life in Australia in which my grandfather anglicised his family name and lived a simple life with his wife and child and her relatives in Sydney, Australia. The field recording of Australian birds and wildlife at the beginning of the track is a timeless representation of the landscape of this far off land. My grandfather made friends with many people who had fled or immigrated to Australia from Europe. He worked as a taxi driver and in his later years started in earnest to read Classical music at the age of 76.

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