The Levontin 7 club was all abuzz this month with a bill made up of Oy Division, a Tel Aviv klezmer band, and Zadik Zecharia, a Kurdish zorna player, sandwiching U.S. visitors and Balkan folk-rockers A Hawk and a Hacksaw. Upstairs, people milled around before the show amidst paintings in sickly grays, yellows and purples of mutant humanoids that resembled a visual portmanteau of Yellow Submarine, Salad Fingers and Edward Gorey.

Downstairs, past the stenciled sentinel of three monkeys respectively toting a camera, a megaphone and an iPod, the psychedelic tinge gave way to a sparse setup with two fanned out rays of seats and a large aisle in between for dancing. Up first was Oy Division, (who, despite what you might expect, are not a Joy Division cover band) who took the stage to whistles and applause.

The four main members of the band, Avichy Tuchman on double bass, Eyal Talmudi on clarinet, Assaf Talmudi on accordion and Gershon Leizerson on violin kicked into what sounded like a drinking song in either Yiddish or Russian and were very quick to invite the audience to dance. The band’s brand of kinetic klezmer had them bobbing, wriggling and toe-tapping and the crowd couldn’t help but do the same.

Many of the songs had the festivity of a wedding, except everyone had forgotten about the bride and groom and had turned their attention to the band. A few songs in, the band brought a mandolin player on-stage and then the aerophones and strings truly began their collaboration. Towards the end of the set, the violinist injected some vocals into the performance singing a song about a Russian soldier in World War II whose tank is destroyed, and a lament about a fisherman on the Danube.