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Hazan David Kadoch – Tikun Hatal

8 April 2020 – Pesach is almost here

As announced, this week this musical moment has moved ahead two days, as, today, Pesach begins. Let’s enjoy the voice of David Kadoch, hazan of the Abir Yaakob Congregation in Thornhill, Ontario.

I hope you and all your beloved ones are well and healthy. Here we are still in confinement. My father was two nights at the hospital but now he is at home and recovering and I am happy to share one more musical wonder with you.

I discovered David Kadoch by chance, searching for Sephardic music at the Youtube (the true is that I do this very often: it was a matter of time that I found him). He has a huge collection of wonderful recordings in his channel, specially focused on Moroccan Sephardic repertoire.

But the recording I share with you today is in the channel of Darké Aboutenu, an initiative born in 2017 in Canada, with the aim of disseminating the culture of the Moroccan Jewry. Check their website, where you can also join their mailing list.

The portrait is from David’s Facebook profile. And the recording in the video below is Tikun Hatal, the prayer for dew, recited in the Sephardic tradition on the first day of Pesach. I feel it really moving and I am happy to bring you a hazan that is alive and active nowadays and so generous with all these material available at the Internet. I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Clic the picture to enjoy the recording of David Kadoch:

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Chag Pesach Sameach

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

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Chazzan Moshe Bazian – Rachamono D’onay

13 March 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with the outstanding Chazzan Moshe Bazian, born in Chișinău, current capital city of Moldova (region of Bessarabia), in 1925, and settled in USA in 1949.

The first time I listened a chazzan was he, more than 20 years ago. I don’t remember how did that happen. Maybe a compilation of world music? Maybe in one of those P2P programs in which other users could send you music? The true is that I don’t remember but, in the opossite, I never forgot this piece and this voice, the amazing micro melismata, the dynamics, and all of this, serving a message that I was able only to imagine. Even today I don’t know what does Rachamono D’onay mean (any kind soul could explain it to me?).

I felt like looking back to that time… The whole world is in the biggest crisis I’ve seen in my life. In my country it is quite likely that, from tomorrow, we won’t be even allowed to go out to the street. Nevertheless, the standards of life and security of nowadays are much better than in Moshe Bazian’s time. We all are going to suffer but we will recover, you know. In the meantime… 

…clic the picture to enjoy the recording Rachamono D’onay and let yourself go in the spell of his voice:

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Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

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