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Jako el Muzikante – Madam Gaspard

17 Abril 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with Jako el Muzikante and a piece about the everydayness, hoping to recover ours soon: Madam Gaspard and her visit to the market. 

I hope you have had a great Pesach, despite the situation. Here we are in confinement for 5 weeks now and, even though we can go to the grocery stores, the feeling of everydayness, with the latex gloves, the masks and the extra spacing, has gone.

The song for this occasion talks about Madam Gaspard who goes to the market and buys many animals. The lyrics are cumulative, as you will feel, and talk about this:

Madam Gaspard went to market.
She bought a dog:
a dog that says “wua wua wua wua”,
a cat that says “nya nya nya nya”,
a parrot that says “pa pa pa pa”,
a cock that says “ku ku ku ku”,
a chicken “ki ki ki ki”.
Do you know, my good-wife,
how much did she pay?

 

This song is included in the album “Ven al Luna Park”, by Jako el Muzikante, alter ego of Xurxo Fernandes. He learnt it from the collection of Victor Besso, researcher born in Salonica in 1905. According to the booklet, Yakov Algava learnt it from the Constantinoplian singer Karakesh Efendi and he recorded it in two different records in 1909.The mentioned animals can be more, as many as the imagination of the singer allowed. In the booklet of the album it is explained one occasion in Izmir in which it lasted one hour. It is a big challenge for any singer and Xurxo makes it wonderfully in this live shot.

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Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
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May you always find the light in your path.

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Cantor İsak Maçoro – Avinu Malkenu

27 March 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with İsak Maçoro, Sephardic cantor, born in 1918, in Hasköy, a quarter in Beyoğlu, in the European side of Istambul, where many Portuguese and Spanish Jewish settled from the end of XV century. Let’s listen his rendition of Avinu Malkenu.

I know this is not the time to pray with Avinu Malkenu. We are not in the Yamim Noraim, but I feel the message is perfectly suitable for our current situation. If you read this at some moment of the future, today we are finishing the second week of confinement in Spain because of the crisis of Covid-19. Most of the world is suffering this threat, that is costing many lifes and changed our everydayness overnight.

I got to know Cantor İsak Maçoro at the Youtube some years ago, searching for Sephardic piyyutim. The picture of him and a short bio can be found in the website eSefarad. And in the channel of Youtube of Janet & Jak Esim, of which I talked in the previous Music Before Shabbat, there are many more videos of him. You can even see him singing live.

For this occasion I have chosen this recording from 1960, from the Youtune channel of Ozkan Sagliksunar.

Clic the picture to enjoy the recording of Isak Maçoro:

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Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
To know more about our artists, click here.

May you always find the light in your path.

Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory

Bienvenida Aguado – La mujer de Terah

20 March 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with the emblematic Sephardic singer Bienvenida “Berta” Aguado, born in Çanakkale, Turkey, in 1929, settled in Israel from 1979 and passed away in 2016.

Let’s face this terrible time we are suffering in most of the world with the most sublime beauty. She is one of my favourite singers of any time. She is inimitable and unforgettable and her singing is absolutely unique.

Thanks to the works by Susana Weich-Shahak there are many recordings of Bienvenida, an unbelievable singer, who made enchanting intrincate filigrees with her voice, that you could almost don’t believe, in an old Ottoman style.

For this occasion I have chosen La Mujer de Terah, Terah’s Wife, about the prenancy of Abraham’s mother and about his birth and some events in his life. This video is part of the collection of Jak Essim, who is a singer settled in Istambul and works with his wife Janet. You can also find more info about this song in this link about an album with works by Susana Weich-Shahak.

Clic the picture to enjoy the recording of La Mujer de Terah:

Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
To know more about our artists, click here.

May you always find the light in your path. 

Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory

Jako el Muzikante – letter from Hadrianopolis

28 February 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with Sephardic music from Hadrianopolis, by Jako el Muzikante

Xurxo, the real name of the artist that incarnates the character of Jako el Muzikante, explained to me that this song was written by a poet from Hadrianopolis (Enderne in Ladino, Edirne in Turkish) about who it was rumored that was dead.

The responsible of that rumour was Hayim, another man, mentioned in the song. The poet answered with this humour and grace to announce that he was alive. I have translated the lyrics into English. Enjoy!

CLIC THE PICTURE TO WATCH THE VIDEO
Esta letra vos eskrivo:
I write this letter to you,
to tell you that I am alive
and to prove that I am healthy
I write to you with my hand.

 

Thanks to God,
my health got strong,
ah, it became so good
that I make hold in the floor where I step.Hayim, my dear,
I always try to give you joy.
I would never leave
without your permission.

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Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist.
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Jako el Muzikante – rebetiko

14 February 2020 – Shabbat is almost here

Enjoy with Sephardic music.

Roza Eskenazi is one of the benchmarks of the rebetiko and the referential female singer. Her mother’s languaje was djudeo-espanyol. All the productions we have from her are sang in Greek but Xurxo Fernandes, alias Jako el Muzikante, translated this sad tune about despair and lost love, into the languaje of the Oriental Sephardic. Enjoy the original rebetiko piece and his rendition. Find the lyrics below.

CLICK THE PICTURES TO SEE THE VIDEOS:

Γιατί Φουμάρω Κοκαίνη
Maldicha kokaina

I hope you’ll like it and, if so, feel free to share it. Shabbat Shalom.

Araceli Tzigane | Mapamundi Música

May you always find the light in your path.
And we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist. To know more about our artists, click here.

Janucá con alegrías – Jako el Muzikante

[NOTE: this message was sent before Shabbat of Hannuka of 5780/2019]

Jako el Muzikante and Mapamundi Música wish you

Janucá 5780 en alegrías! Hannukah 5780 with joy!

May you always find the light in your path. 

Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory

 

Hannukah Shabbat 5780

[NOTE: this message was sent before Shabbat of Hannuka of 5780/2019]

Shabbat Chanukah is almost here

and we share with you one hour of music for joy in this playlist. Click the picture to listen and, to know more about our artists, click here.

May you always find the light in your path.

Jako el Muzikante – Gulaza – Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory