{"id":1950,"date":"2020-05-22T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2020-07-03T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T12:48:19","slug":"1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/musicbeforeshabbat\/1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Before Shabbat, with Jako el Muzikante. Yearnings that you will, or will not, share ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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22 May 2020 – Shabbat is almost here<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Love, love, love… that tearing feeling that drives us so crazy, is again the topic of today’s piece. A song about the quest to find the lady of his dreams, sang by\u00a0Jako el Muzikante<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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In this occasion we will enjoy a very recent recording with Jako el Muzikante, that will take us back to Izak Algazi’s time before he moved to France (check the previous MBS,\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n

As announced previously in another MBS, the friends from Sephardic Stories, that lead the\u00a0Gibraltar World Music Festival<\/a>, during the lockdown started the initiative Sephardic Collection, to support the work of the artists in this difficult time. In this frame,\u00a0last Thursday it was premiered the video of this issue of MBS, that you can see below.\u00a0??\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
?\u00a0Special announcement: next Thursday at 17h (Central European Time), Yan Delgado and me will make an interview with Jako el Muzikante, who will talk in Ladino and I will translate into English.\u00a0Check here<\/a>\u00a0in advance\u00a0?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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The song about the quest of the perfect lady<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
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In the lyrics of this song,\u00a0Onde que tope una ke es plazyente? (where would I find a pleasant one)<\/em>,\u00a0a man wonders where would he find the woman of his dreams, one that he liked, slim, graceful… and that thinks before she speaks! He will wait for her many years.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0book-CD “Ven al Luna Park”<\/a>, by Jako el Muzikante,\u00a0Jak Mayesh<\/strong>\u00a0“on the 8th of September of 1942 he recorded his voice for this song for a record of the “The Jack Mayesh Phonograph Record Co. label, accompanied on the oud by K. Bozajain.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

The book-CD also explains that Mayesh recorded the song again in 1948 and that it exists also a version of this song in the oral tradition, sang by Roza Berro. “Ven al Luna Park” includes also some brief biographical infos about Jak Mayesh, who was born in Kushadashi in 1899, a city by the Aegean sea, that now belongs to Turkey. He moved to USA in 1929, served as a singer in the most important Sephardi synagoges and also stablished a business of wholesaling flowers. What happened with this business? You can learn it in the book-CD\u00a0?<\/p>\n

The recording in which Jako el Muzikante is based for his rendition is in an album from the collection of\u00a0Jakob Michael<\/strong>\u00a0and it can be found in the mentioned book-CD,\u00a0Ven al Luna Park<\/em>, by Jako el Muzikante, available nowadays in most of the\u00a0online shops<\/a>\u00a0and digital platforms.<\/p>\n

And I know this song is specially appreciated by my friend Fernando, who will receive this message in Krakow, that I hope to be again soon, when all this awfulness ended!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
?One more announcement: if you understand Spanish, you can listen the interview with Jako, done by Marcelo Benveniste for Radio Sefarad and Radio Jai.\u00a0Listen here<\/a>\u00a0?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Clic the picture to enjoy\u00a0Onde que tope<\/em>, by Jako el Muzikante:
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