Passover CDs -DVDs and Videos

[Klezcorner <Klezcorner...>]

Our Passover web page is featuring new and traditional tiles...some of which 
are available in very limited quantities as they are no longer in print.

Featured are many Sephardic CDs, including last year's top selling Passover 
recordings by Sami Elmagribi and Jo Amar, both in the Moroccan tradition. 
We have Passover recordings in : 
Ladino, Yiddish (Lori Canan-Simon), by the Great Cantors, Debbie Friedman, 
various Sephardic Traditions-- Tunisian and Algerian --and many more!

To View these and other Passover recordings visit:
http://www.hatikvahmusic.com/passover.html

Below, you will find reviews by George Robinson of the above mentioned 
Moroccan Passover CDs from his last year's Passover column in The Jewish Week.
Enjoy!
Simon
Hatikvah Music
323) 655-7083

A Sephardic Seder 
Jo Amar and Samy Elmaghribi lead off this year?s survey of Sephardic music.
George Robinson - Special To The Jewish Week
 APRIL 4, 2003

Jo Amar: ?Haggadah de Pessah? (Azoulay Bros.) 

Amar is one of the big stars of Mizrahi religious music in Israel, a tenor 
with a slightly pinched, adenoidal quality to his vocals that is not 
unpleasant. 
This CD is a bit on the short side (28 minutes) but features a wonderfully 
spirited ?Khad Gad Ya? that is worth the price of admission. At its best when 
it 
is punching out syncopated rhythm lines full of shifting, propulsive beats. 
AAAA 


Samy Elmaghribi: ?Haggadah de Pessah? 

Elmaghribi, who is from North Africa as his name suggests, has a sweeter 
voice than Amar and is a superb oud player. Where Amar has an adult male chorus 
behind him, Maghribi works with a group of adolescent boys (thankfully, not the 
saccharine-voiced chirpers one usually hears on Jewish music recordings these 
days), and guides listeners through the entire seder. The result is an 
excellent introduction to another version of this familiar material and, at 59 
minutes, as generous a helping as you?d get from your own mother. AAAAA 

---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+