Re: Samy El Maghribi

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

2 conjectures that support Judith:

1) Samy El Maghribi looks very young on the CD cover
2) The buzz in the microphone sounds like it's coming from a really old
microphone- possibly attached to a reel-to-reel. I doubt they make mikes
like that anymore (unless they're really, really cheap).
                                ek


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith R Cohen" <judithc (at) YorkU(dot)CA>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:35 AM
Subject: Samy El Maghribi


> 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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