Beyond Babylon

1. Two Be Simple

2. Basketball Barmitzva

3. Fragment of Kafka's Friend

4. Masks and Faces

5. Timepeace

6. Klezmer a la Bechet

7. Golem Khosidl

8. Glass Dance

9. Eye for a You

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Out of Babylon: The Music of Baghdadi-Jewish Migrations Into Asia and Beyond
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Out of Babylon: The Music of Baghdadi-Jewish Migrations Into Asia and Beyond
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000OPODN6
Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

Anenu - Rahum Wehannun - Eli Shelem
Rahum Wehannun - Zaki I. Solomon
Abinu Malkenu - Eli Shelem
Abinu Malkenu - Charlie Daniel
Shema/Adonay Hu Haelohim/Adonay Melekh - Menahem David Dangoor
Shema/Adonay Hu Haelohim/Adonay Melekh - Sam Benjamin
Shomer Yisrael/Qaddish/Shofar Blowing - Sam Benjamin
El Rahum Shemakh - Sam Benjamin
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Netanel Meoded
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Charlie Daniel
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Jacob Zion
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Ellis Jacobs
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Solomon Isaac Solomon
Ki eshmerah Shabbath - Solomon Isaac Solomon
Balini-b Balwa - Jacob Baher
Deror Yiqra - Matthew Trush
Deror Yiqra - Charlie Daniel
Deror Yiqra - Jacob Zion
Deror Yiqra - Ellis Jacobs
Yom Hashshabbath - Nissim Cunio
Yom Hashshabbath - Charlie Daniel
Yom Hashshabbath - Ezra Daniel
Yom Zeh Ieyisrael - Nissim Cunio
Lekhah Dodi - Netanel Meoded
Sur Mishello - Nissim Cunio
El Me-od Naalah - Netanel Meoded
Yahh Habibi - Yodah
Emunah - Yodah
Yosheb - Yodah
Torath Emeth Nathan - Unknown
Maqheloth - Jacob Zion
Emeth Atah Hathanenu - Solomon Isaac Solomon
Yehi Shalom Beheylenu - Jacob Zion
Psalm 1 - Yehezkel Batat
Psalm 1 - Baruch Abdallah Ezra
Psalm 1 - Abdallah Hillel
Psalm 1 - David Salman
Psalm 137 - Baruch Abdallah Ezra
Psalm 137 - Nehemia Hudja
Psalm 137 - Sam Benjamin
Middan Nishma - Nehemia Hudja
Asher Hosethikha - Netanel Meoded

Album Description

In principle the music on this CD belongs to the ancient tradition of Bagdhadi-Jewish music. In fact it documents songs performed (i) in the synagogues of the Baghdadi-Jewish diaspora in Asia from the end of the 18th to the mid-20th centuries, and (ii) in a further diaspora since the 1950s to Australia, the UK, and beyond. The songs were recorded in Bombay, Poona, Singapore, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manchester, London and Sydney by ethnomusicologists Margaret Kartomi and Sara Manasseh of Melbourne and London respectively as part of the CD project team which also included Regina Randhofer of Halle, Germany and Bronia Kornhauser of Melbourne. Randhofer's interest in psalmody led her to the National Sound Archives in Jerusalem. From there she selected a number of valuable historical recordings, originally collected in Iraq and Israel, to provide more comparative material for the CD. Kornhauser has been the research archivist for the Australian Archive of Jewish Music (in the School of Music, Monash University) since its inception in 1995 and has been collaborating with Kartomi for a number of years in researching the Jewish music of the Asia-Pacific region. The CD is one of the outcomes of that research. Although the recordings that it contains have a documentary character, they have been carefully prepared to maximise their audio-technical qualities.