Re: Iraqi-Jewish Music

[Jewish Music Distribution <jmduk...>]

Thanks, got the CD, will listen and get back to you..

Yours
Noa
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: futter 
  To: World music from a Jewish slant 
  Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:38 PM
  Subject: Iraqi-Jewish Music


  On the subject of Iraqi-Jewish Music, Renair Records has just released a CD 
of Iraqi singers from the 1920s titled "Shbahoth" or songs of praise. These 
songs were sung on Shabbat and on other festivals . With extensive sleeve notes 
by the noted music scholar Sara Manasseh and in digitally remastered sound, 
this reissue makes available for the first time recordings that Hagguli Darzi, 
Selim Daoud, Shlomo Mouallim and others made in Iraq in the 1920s.
  Recorded on the Baidaphon , Polyphon and Odeon labels they represent a 
precious legacy and allow us to hear an aural snapshot of a 2,500 year old 
tradition.
  Renair Records can be contacted at records (at) renair(dot)co(dot)uk 

  Julian Futter
  61 Warrington Crescent
  London W9 1EH
  +44 207 289 7960
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Eva Broman 
    To: World music from a Jewish slant 
    Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:01 AM
    Subject: More on Salim Halali et al


    Hi again,

    There's a great web site with musical samples of Salim Halali and other 
singers:

    http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6256/judeo.htm

    and another one on the Jewish musicians of Irak:

    http://www.dangoor.com/72page42.html

    Another link to Jewish musicians/singers of the Arab world is Enrico 
Macias, née Gaston Ghrenassia (his dad played with Cheik Raymond, if I'm not 
mistaken)-when I first went to Paris in the late seventies I fell in love with 
his songs..."Soleil, soleil de mon pays perdu..." Ah!

    Eva