MOR KARBASI - SAAT ARAHMAN [CD]

This album, 5th album by Mor Karbasi, introduces a rainbow of Karbasi's identities and the remarkable story of her family. From Hebrew songs composed, arranged, sung and sometimes written by Mor herself to Ladino Sephardic songs and Berber songs from the Atlas mountains, with the participation of some of the finest musicians today! (Avishai Cohen-trumpet, Yossi Fine-Bass and Electric guitar on "Atay", Moshe Elmakias -piano, Itamar Doari-Percussion on "Porque (Because), Joe Taylor and many more... And... there is even a Yemenite song in the album! Born to a family of Moroccan, Sephardic and Persian roots, it comes as a surprise as to why Mor would choose to open the album with a Yemenite song ! Saat Arahman is a traditional yemenite wedding song that deals with the subject of "The child bride", something so common in many cultures around the world until this very day! The text is no less that a moving dialogue between the child and her father and mother, asking them with all her little might to not give her away, to protect her, and failing that, to at least build her new home next to her childhood home. The idea for the musical arrangement has come to Mor after listening to a Spanish Andalousian "Saeta". something very dramatic that is played and sung during "semana santa" parades in spain, a parade in honour of the statues of Jesus and his mother Maria, describing scenes from the crucifixion on what precedes it.