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Very nice...your style sounds more Arabic than Turkish. How can we buy your CDs?

A song about mom...in Hebrew and Moroccan Judeo-Arabic...what's not to like?

Tair: You are very talented! I would love to hear you sing this with only percussion, in the traditional style, or with Middle Eastern "takht sharqi" instrumentation ('ud, qanoun, ney, darbukka, etc.).

I meant "sing"!

Beautiful! Thanks so much for posting this! I have dozens of cassette recordings of him accompanying piyyoutim and pizmonim (Mizrahi Jewish religious songs). I thought maybe "Avraham David HaCohen" was just the Hebrew name of Abraham Salman. Does Avraham David HaCohen (z"l) have any of his own...

Thanks for sharing! We all miss Mimi!

@mimounmiller So...Zionist emissaries showed the Jews of the Arab World a few glossy brochures...and now only 6,000 of 3,500,000 these Jews (less than 1%) still live in the Arab Wrold today??!! Your claim is the perfect mirror image of those Zionists who claim that 80% of Palestinians live outsi...

:=O LOL!

Can anyone please translate the lyrics into English? I have one a translation which I am afraid is very bad.

احبابنا يا عين ما هم معنا

رحنا و راحوا عنا

ما حد منا اتهنا

عيني يا عيني

احبابنا بالروح جاروا علينا

يا هل ترى في بالهم و لا نسونا

رحنا و راحوا عنا

ما حد منا اتهنا

عيني يا عيني

في كل يوم...

COOL! One of the very few recordings I've ever heard of Hebrew piyyutim/pizmonim as oud/voice solo and the only one I've heard with Moshe Habusha playing oud and singing solo...like an Iraqi-Jewish Abdulwahab! Todah raba for posting this, Ariel!

Oh...and the statue in the very, very beginning is Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, Lebanon. Note clue regarding last scene location: Turbaned "bawwab" (apartment building door man/concierge) coming to meet their taxi. - Signed, John the "Stupid American"

How many Syrian and other Mizrahi Jews are living in Argentina now?

Many claim that is melody is Iraqi in origin. It is certainly well-known among Iraqi Jews today. But the fact that the verse and chorus melodies are the same--typical of more simple/folkloric Yemeni-Jewish music and very rare among of more "urban" and "sophisticated" Iraqi-Jewish music--and the...

The Simpsons...yeah..."Bleeding Gums"...Carole King original song...never knew (or maybe just forgot) The Counts covered it...funkalicious! ;=)

Nicole Bass was born 10/26/64. That makes her 47 years old. Of course she doesn't look like a young twenty-something gal! She looked quite pretty in her photos from her 20s, but didn't we all? ;=)

Nice voice, nice version (Algerian melody), but why not record with a "takht sharqi"-type ensemble (oud, qanoun, ney, darbukka, etc.)?

Çok güzel! The arrangement (campy jazz orchestra) actually reminds my of music from classic James Bond movies...they should have worked this one into "From Russia with Love"! BTW, the name "Istanbul" derives from the Greek phrase "εις την Πόλιν" or "στην Πόλη" [istimbolin], both meaning "in the...

@DennyTedesco Your dad had 5x the chops and 10x the musical knowledge of even the best rock guitarists. Please he could actually READ music...really well, in fact! But, music is also about style and feel. Rock music was definately not his medium. This video is mostly amusing as a novelty, and...

Oh, s--t! If I saw the "doovdé" in print I would have ASSUMED it was Farsi or Armenian! :=)

This wonderful music is not Middle Eastern, but North African "nuba," the classical music of Morocco (and Tunisia and Algeria). Neither is it specifically Jewish, except SUNG in Hebrew or Judeo-Arabic. (This is not to deny that famous professional musicians in North Africa were disproportionat...

This is (mostly) a composition, not an improvised taqsim. I have a recording of this on CD. Said Chraibi is a great oud master!

Dear Naser, Thanks for sharing this ecumenical song and inspiring your fellow Abrahamic monotheists (Jews, Christians, Muslims, Baha'i, etc.) to greater holiness! Peace, Brother!

@lolifier7 Yeah, yeah, yeah...the Arabic plural, "muwashahat," would be more correct here, and so also should every pizza restaurant outside Italy should change their signs to read "pizze" (plural, as they do in Italy), instead of the singular "pizza."

Thanks for posting this! Moshe Habusha is the best hazzan, and his recording of "E-l b'Oni" is the best Hebrew piyyut version of the greatest Arabic song ever written, "Enta Omri"! No kitschy synthesizer and Abraham Salman on qanoun...a taste of the World to Come, indeed!

This opens with "Yishmach Moshe" by Jo Amar. "Ashorer Shira" doesn't start until 2:40.

Fadi Aziz will not be the only traditional Iraqi musician living in the US. You should hook him up with Rahim Alhaj and Amir El Saffar. I smell a Smithsonian session...

Çok güzel ustad Necati! Please come back to N. California to perform... and teach!

"Hijaz" is a maqam, a Middle Eastern scale or mode. The names given to maqamat (plural of maqam) are often geographic or ethnic, e.g.: "Nahawand" (city in Iran); "Kurd" (the ethnic group); "Ajam" (Arabic for "foreign"). Compositions throughout the Middle East and North Africa can use these scal...

Nice arpeggio technique! Did he study with any Turkish kanun players (thinking especially of Halil Karaduman)? Kol hakavod!

:=)

@husamsaff Song after "Ala Dal Ouna" is" Ala Balad El Mahboub" (Kulthoum)

And I thought Rahim lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At least that's what his web page says. What a dolt I am!

Awesome singer, awesome song. "LaMoledet Shuvi Rani" is a "pizmon," a Hebrew/Jewish religious song written to an existing folk or popular song melody. The source melody, "Lamouni Li Gharou Meni" is actually a Tunisian song performed first by Hedi Jouini, I believe in the 1940s. Jews and Arabs ...

Bravo, Rachid!

I've been a Bobs fan for decades now, and I really like the idea of a cover with instruments of an acapella original! Thanks for sharing!