Re: recordings

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

>It is unfortunate that Sephardic Music is now considered practically 
>anything recorded by an artist who's not form Poland!

And of course, let's not forget the Polish Sephardic CDs by Anna Jagielska, 
Zespól Reprezentacyjny and Jadwiga Teresa Stepien...

It's a Sephardi world, Simon!

Joel

At 03:00 PM 6/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 6/14/3 9:38:14 PM, ted (at) jue-kuster(dot)com writes:
>
><< By the way, an Israeli guy I work with found out I play in a klezmer band
>
>and immediately lent me a bunch of CD's by one Moshe Haim. I found the
>
>tunes very reminiscent of Latin American pop stars like Juan Gabriel and
>
>  >>
>
>The artist is Chaim Moshe. He is Yemenite, MOST of his music was Greek songs
>translated into Hebrew with that "Jewish-Arab" sound. This style was made
>popular by Zohar Argov and the very early recordings of Benny Elbaz, whose 
>music
>was primarily Spanish and Italian songs translated into Hebrew.
>
>It is unfortunate that Sephardic Music is now considered practically anything
>recorded by an artist who's not form Poland!  This causes much confusion when
>searching for "authentic" recordings...and, unfortunately, I have now 'gone
>with the flow' by putting such categories as Yemenite, Bakharan, 
>Ethiopian, etc
>under "Sephardic" on our site.
>Realizing that some people might only be looking for "Jewish-Spanish"
>recordings, we have created a separate "Ladino" category as well as 
>"Sephardic"
>category for non-"Spanish" music..such as Moroccan, Tunisian, Algeria, 
>Jerba, ...
>
>We now have well over 400 Ladino and 'other' Sephardic recordings in stock...
>Our best selling CD for the last 6 months has been a Ladino CD by Savina
>Yannatou, and last year, "The Italian Jewish Musical Traditions" Was out 
>third
>best selling CD, thanks in great part to the great review by Cantor Sam Weiss.
>
>For more Sephardic CDs, visit our site at:
>www.hatikvahmusic.com
>



Joel Bresler
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