Winter Family was born in Jaffa on 2004. while Xavier Klaine develops layers of piano or harmoniums and pipe organ's drones into a dark mystic universe, Ruth Rosenthal speaks her texts/poems with a low voice, inhabit by a rare deepness.                               Together they perform as a duet or with their relatives: Fabien Lehalle (bass), Olivier Robert (cymbals, guitar), Sylvain Favre (violin), Norsola Johnson (cello) and Sen Gupta Gaetan (cythar), they have been collaborating with various choreographers and artists, and have been recording and playing live in concert halls, apartments, galleries, clubs, theaters, crypts and churches; in Paris, New-York, Milan, Gent, London, Brussels, Tel-Aviv, Naples, Jerusalem, Lausanne, Haifa and more.                                                      Their debut album was out on September 2007 at Sub Rosa Records followed by a 12' Vinyl on 2008 at Marienbad Records.                     Currently, they are recording their second album in Les Ruelles.

“...Her low voice petrified the audience. The words spring up like a bustling torrent or a calm stream. She recites, chants, whispers, speaks, delivers and shines. Her lamentation full of sadness and of endless compassion like it was coming from the night of times. She tells of biblical tales, of wandering stories, of brotherhood hostility, of jealousy, of grief and suffers, of love too. She speaks the war, the wounds of life, the sacrificed children; she mimes the sounds of bombs explosions. In English or Hebrew her inconsolable voice slides imperceptibly over the intoxicating loops of the organ and harmonium. The 'mass' completes in an apotheosis, in a shout of the pipe organ and with a cry "us, the alive!" We exit the church converted into Winter Family...” M. Lechner, Liberation