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I believe this band is significant and should not have its page deleted. It's received many glowing reviews, and will soon have five albums out as well as a number of spots on compilation albums. But more importantly, its members play on instruments and draw on music styles from the Middle East which are not often heard in current popular Jewish music (or certainly elsewhere in the American music scene), blending them together in a unique and skilful way. I don't know of any other popular Jewish bands these days are willing to subject their audience to the ear-splitting nasal drone of a zurna, or ask everyone to clap along, but only on the 1, 6, and 7 of a 10-beat cycle. Elsewhere, if it's not a low-key subsidized authentic ethnic performance, the music will be overwhelming Western in style ... even in Israeli so-called "mizrahi" ('Eastern') music. I'd say this band has an important place in current Jewish cultural development. All that might not add up to significance if the actual quality of the music were not high, but I believe it is, and the reviews back me up.
As for the article itself, I haven't added much to it, but I'll try to flesh it out a bit in the coming days.
On another note, I'm itching to remove the classification as American folk music. I have not heard every song by PD, but In general I find nothing folksy about their music. Do other people disagree? Shajats Itel09:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
