Rounder has begun to release the field recordings made by the late author/composer Paul Bowles during his many decades in Morocco. The cover photo of a group of men singing to oud and tambourine accompaniment implies the presence of instrumental music, but what one hears on this 2-CD set is strictly vocal-liturgical music and adaptations of popular songs. A Moroccan synagogue service is quite unlike the better-known European Jewish rites and makes for a fascinating comparison as to how prayers are approached and intoned. Nevertheless, this is ritual worship, not music as such, and it's of lesser appeal than the songs, which are performed informally and reflect the influence of popular Egyptian and Algerian styles.
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Sacred Music of the Moroccan Jews
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ASIN: B00004S5E7 Release Date: 2000-04-25 |
Tracks:
- Yitgadal Ve-yitqadash
- Zakhur Le-tov Ya'ir Neri
- 'Uri Ayyumah Nirdama
- Ya'ala, Ya'ala Boi'i Le-ganni
- Akhzar Hehemar Li Mishkan Ehrivo
- Barekhu Et Adonay Ha-mevorakh/Birkat Ma'ariv 'Aravim/Birkit Ahavah
- Ahavat 'Olam
- Ki Hem Hayyenu/Shema' Yisrael/Birkat Ge'ulah
- Rau Vanim Et Gevurato
- Ashkivenu
- Mizmor Le-David
- Ashrei Ish Lo Yshkahekha
- El Hay Ram Gadol
- Petihah Or Mawwal (Overture) In Moroccan Judeo-Arabic
- Unidentified Song In Moroccan Judeo-Arabic
- Shemesh 'Osa
- Yitgadal Ve-yitqadash
- 'Aneh Shav'ati Yah U-shema'
- Yaftiru Sefatay
- Lammah Yad Annasim Ramah
- Shahar Abaqeshkha
- Yad Bat Ahuvah
- Mishpat 'Avadim Le-qonaiv
- Yah Sokhi Hakem
Tracks:
- Ashir Be-mesharim
- Lekha Essa 'Eynai Be-khol 'Et Ve-'ona
- Shir Le-ayelet Ahavim
- Paniti Be-rov Oni
- Kokhav 'Uzzkha Hen 'Alah
- Yonah Tammah Sorerekh Aggan
- Sut Ga'avah Yah/Podeh Adonay Nefesh 'Avadav
- El Shokhen Shamayyim
- Hohil La-el Be-khol Yom
- Melekh Meromam
- Annah 'Alay Tela'ot Gaveru
- Ra'ayati Hinakh Yafah
- Ahallel Shem Ha-el Tzur 'Ote Ora
- Shofet Tzedeq El Ne'eddari
- Av Shur Le-qol Tor
- Mar'ot Binah
- Lammah 'Edah
- Annah Hemlat Qoni
- Qarev Aluf
- Ra'ayati Hinakh Yafah
- Al Me Henasta
- Qol Besorat Kamah
- Qumi Yehidati Lehallel
- Ya'akov Yagel Yisrael Yismah
- Sheshet Yemei Ma'aseh
- Meshiah Ben David
- Eftah Pi Ve-abbia' Hiddot
- Na'amah Bein Ha-shemashot
- Yah Ram Ve-eliyon
- 'Edah Pezurah
- Baharu Mivhar
- Yah Gadel Nitradah
- Noten La-ya'af
- Esh'alah Lig'ulah
- Dod Ve-ahuv
- Shirah Patzu Sefatay
- Ba 'Et Ha-zamir
- Matay Yebusar
- Annah 'Ozreni El
- Az Shar Moshe Ve-Yisrael
- Shoreru Shir La-el Ne'edar Ba-qoddesh
- Yomar Na Yisrael
- Shomer Shabbat U-mekhabdo
Customer Reviews:
Authentic and Beautiful.......2004-01-26
Sacred Music of Moroccan Jews from the Paul Bowles collectio.......2000-06-25
An impressive recording which will be of interest to anyone who has a taste for or curiosity in the music of the Jews, and also of Arabs and/or North Africa. The all vocal pieces represent religious music including a Sabbath service as well as individual songs from more than one North African location. Words in Hebrew are sung to melodies whose characteristics can be traced to Arabic and North African traditions. Fluid, highly affective melodies are sung by the leading voices of cantors and answered by a chorus of those attending the service; shorter.
Highly spiritual and also extremely spirited, even forceful though always in a serious tone, this already then "antique" style of material was recorded by composer/writer Paul Bowles in the late 1950s just prior to a final exodus of Jews from Morocco in the following decade, and it makes come alive the history of crosstalk and acculturation which Jewish culture underwent in the varying shifts of the Andalusian in the early and Middle Ages when first Islam conquered Spain and then when Muslim forces were forced to withdraw in the face of Christian recapturing. The Jews absorbed much from their Moorish governors in the centuries of Arabic influence and then more in the Diaspora into North Africa following Queen Isabella's final expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
Copious notes are not overly technical, but do reference multiple sources from Arabic and Andalusian forms drawn upon the in the creation of the original Jewish material, as well as recounting the context and immediate history of Bowles' project, including references to the two still-living cantors who were involved in and expert regarding the music recorded.
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