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12 June 2020 – Shabbat is almost here<\/strong><\/h3>\n
And in this occasion we will enjoy a mesmerizing\u00a0old recording of a\u00a0Yedid Nafshi<\/em>, dating from 1957, from the recordings made in Israel by the Bengali ethnomusicologist Deben Battacharya.<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n
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I hope you are well! I want to ask you something. If you like this,\u00a0<\/span>please\u00a0share it with your friends. It is all I could want with this, to reach more people with these musics\u00a0that captures the History of our civilization. Under the video you have a button to sign up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In\u00a0the last edition<\/a>\u00a0we payed attention to a contemporary artist, David Krakauer,\u00a0and we talked about current events. But\u00a0I can’t hide my addiction to the old music. That’s why I feel so thankful to people like Deben Battacharya. In 1957, he spent 2 months in Israel, recording the different people that gathered there from so many origins. In Yish’i, between Jerusalem and Ashdod, he meet the Yemenite\u00a0community.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The recordings by Deben Battacharya in Israel 1957<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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This portrait of Deben is from the booklet of a collection of 4 albums with those recordings, that was released by Westminster<\/em> in 1959 under the name of “In Israel Today<\/a>“. This recording of Yedid Nafshi<\/em> is also included in a much newer and easier to find compilation, released in 2014 by ARC Music<\/a> (whose work of re-editing and disseminating<\/a> Battacharya’s work is also outstanding), under the name of Music of the Oriental Jews from North Africa, Yemen & Bukhara<\/em>. You can find more info about this compilation, here<\/a>. It contains more outstanding beauties so I might come back to this album in the future.<\/p>\n

In website The World Jukebox<\/a>, you can also find information about the different albums released with those recordings as well as a brief information about Deben and his trip to Israel. And if you want to know more about Deben Battacharya, there is a large interview made by his friend Kevin Daly, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The recording of\u00a0Yedid Nafshi\u00a0<\/em>is accredited to Nissim Matari (even though you’ll hear two different singers)\u00a0of whom there are no references apart of this recording. But the booklet of the edition of 1959 explains that Yish’i “was founded in 1950 to\u00a0house some of the Yemenites who had arrived to Israel during one of the largests airlifts in the world, known in Israel as “magic carpet”<\/em>“. Deben met the settlers at the end of their day’s work. Then they moved to the village hall, where all the inhabitants, of all ages, men and women, gathered.\u00a0Deben would edit 6 pieces in the collection of 4 albums, with the recordings of that evening. Let’s enjoy the result.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Clic the picture to listen\u00a0Yedid Nafshi<\/em>\u00a0by Nissim Matari:<\/strong><\/h3>\n