VA-Give_Me_Love_Songs_of_the_Brokenhearted_-_Baghdad_(1925-1929)-2LP-2008-BCC

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2008-10-14

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Artist  : VA
Title   : Give Me Love Songs of the Brokenhearted - Baghdad (1925-1929)
Genre   : Ethnic
Year    : 2008
Date    : 10//2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 22
Label   : Honest Jons
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 78:58 min
Size    : 99,5 MB


Tracklist:
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01.mulla abdussaheb  -  ya yumma weya     03:20
baba
02.sayed abbood  -  min fergetak lilyom   03:57
03.dahi ben walid  -  soubhanak allah     03:36
04.sultana youssef  -  khouthni           03:35
bthemmetak
05.salim daoud  -  abuthiyya              03:51
06.khedayer bin kessab  -  taqsim         03:20
07.mulla seoud el koweity  -  anouh       03:35
ithal hathy
08.said el kurdi  -  kassem miro          03:40
09.siddiqa el mullaya  -  wehak el kab    03:26
walkossein
10.hdhairy abou aziz  -  fahasboukom      03:30
hatha
11.kemani noubar  -  taqsim               03:28
12.badria anwar  -  lega taresh habibi    03:40
13.said el kurdi  -  aman aman zakko      03:34
14.siddiqa el mullaya  -  ma tehenn       03:30
alayya
15.sayed abbood  -  shlon aslak           03:57
16.kementchedji alecco  -  taqsim         03:21
17.salim daoud  -  abney eqdah (part 1)   03:40
18.salim daoud  -  abney eqdah (part 2)   03:41
19.hdhairy abou aziz  -  wenini           03:34
20.sultana youssef  -  malek ana          03:33
21.badria anwar  -  ahis ras eddelil      03:34
22.saleh ibrahim  -  taqsim               03:36
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                                          78:58 min



In the mid-1920s The Gramophone Company employed
two or three Europeans to criss-cross Iraq.
They logged regional demographics, assessed the
German competition, and checked out the scores of
record shops and hundreds of musical venues.

In Kerbala its man fearfully disguised himself as an Arab.
This was the groundwork for three sessions, conducted
in Baghdad in the second half of the decade, which
produced nearly one thousand recordings ∙ and drawing
on their full range, Give Me Love is a wondrous, deeply
poignant glimpse of social living since obliterated, in which
ethnicities, faiths and traditions appear woven richly and
meltingly together, however precariously.

There is dance music featuring Arab folk singers from the
countryside, backed by professional Jewish musicians in
Iraqi styles popularly termed 'Egyptian', and perfected in
nightclubs where the first duty of the secular women singers
on this album was prostititution. A Hebrew hymn is kick-
started with a cry of 'Allah!', most likely from one of the
Jewish performers.

There are beautiful high and lonesome Kurdish violin
improvisations; and some unaccompanied circular breathing
on a zourna so unearthly it seems to cross late Coltrane with
Sun Ra.

All the songs are characterised by searing emotion and crises
of feeling; many by erotic urgency.
Startlingly restored at Abbey Road; with full translations and
notes ∙ including an extensive interview with a citizen of
Baghdad throughout this period, who knew many of the musicians
here personally.

http://www.honestjons.com

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