Re: Samy El Maghribi

[avi finegold <afinegold...>]

i just did a 78 and lp to cd transfer of some samy
stuff along with some old jo amar and isaac loeb
stuff....i dont mind using it to seed a tree if
anyones up to it.....


avi


--- Judith R Cohen <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA> wrote:
> I'll have to get the cd when I go through Montreal
> at the end of this
> month, but a bit of background - I don't know when
> Samy recorded this cd
> or whether it's new or a re-issue. When he began his
> career in Morocco
> and then in France he recorded several 45 rpm's with
> his own children
> singing and from the description I wonder whether
> this is a reissue of
> those wonderful old recordings or whether it's a new
> one done perhaps
> with kids at one of the Spehardic schools in
> Montreal. IN between he
> spent several years living in Israel but don't think
> he recorded much
> there, I could be wrong.
> 
> The Crypto-Jews of Belmonte, POrtugal, now sing
> their own Portuguese
> translation of a bilingual Aramaic-Ladino Moroccan
> version I learned
> from an old Tangier rabbi and his wife in Montreal
> years ago, and taught
> them in '97 or '98 when I was first doing fieldwork
> with them, - I was
> (am) incensed because the rabbi who lived there in
> '90-'92 had told me
> he didn't teach them ANY Pesakh songs because
> "they're not intelligent
> enough to remember a song that's sung only once a
> year". So many of them
> now sing this Portuguese-ified Morocco-Montreal
> version transmitted to
> themn by a Canadian Ashkenazi.... and I'm sure
> within a few years some
> ethnomusicologist will trot along, hear them singing
> it and announce
> that they've found authentic medieval vestiges....
> 
> anyone, Samy's voice and oud playing are great, no
> matter at what stage
> of his long and productive career they're recorded,
> Judith
> 
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