To mark Rosh Hashanah last Friday, some Jewish music
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courtesy of Yasmin Levy, with a track from her relatively unknown third album "Mano Suave", released in 2007. It's probably her most eclectic sets, with lots of European and Moroccan influences, and many instruments seldom heard in mainstream pop music. The string instrument on this track is the kemenche - a three stringed fiddle popular in Armenian music
The track I've chosen is called "Komo La Roza" (like the rose in the garden). The song appears tohave been first recorded in Constantinople, Turkey (now Istanbul) in 1913 by Sephardic singer Haim Effendi as "Coma la Rosa En la Guerta" and released on the Orfeon label. This is a short sixty second clip of Haim Effendi's performance, which I located at http://www.sephardicmusic.org/, to which all interested in the roots of this music are respectfully directed:
And this is Yasmin Levy's 2007 cut. As she is a trained pianist, I presume she is playing the piano on this track, with Yechiel Hasson on kemenche.
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Comments (3)
very nice
a change of pace makers
The weekend of September 18th through the 20th will mark Rosh Hashanah, which is a Hebrew holiday. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year on the Hebrew calendar, which marks the beginning of a year with the ripening of barley crops. (New Year's for G-d's Chosen People is closely tied to beer just like rest of us.) It is signaled by a processional use of a ram's horn trumpet, called a shofar. It is a day of rest, as it occurs on Shabbat (the Sabbath), and the month proceeding it is meant to be a time of serious contemplation and reflection. It's a good time - whether you're using a short term loan to celebrate Rosh Hashanah or not.