Mor KarbasiSaat Arahman
Cat-Nr:ALAMA007
Barcode:5031802070323
Release datum:9/15/2023
Label:Mor & Co Music
Genre:World Music/Sephardische Musik

“One of the great young divas of the global music scene” (The Guardian)

  • Mor Karbasi is a leading singer in the Sephardic tradition, the ancient lost culture of the Jewish communities of the golden age of Al-Andalus in 10th century southern Spain.
  • She sings in Ladino, a beautiful language that has almost died out, as well as Hebrew, Spanish, Berber and Moroccan Arabic.
  • The songs explore her Sephardic and Moroccan identity and pay tribute to her mother’s influence, with Mor providing musical settings for Shoshana’s words on two songs.

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.

“I wanted to make the song feel like a funeral parade rather than a wedding parade to emphasise the paradox between the appeared celebration and the personal feeling of the child bride. this subject has been occupying my mind for some time now.

My Moroccan grandmother was also married off too young. Her mother at 9 years old!”

Not only a Yemenite song on the album, but also quite a few Moroccan Jewish liturgic prayers, inspired by her late Moroccan grandfather “shalom asaraf”, who used to sing these hymns all the time.

Such is the wonderful track “Bibilu” (Scarcely we left Egypt, with nothing but the unleavened bread, Now we are free!), that is usually sung by Moroccan Jews in Passover. The Jewish holiday that celebrates freedom)

And “Shirat Hayam” -A magical epic track that talks about the miracle done to the Israelites and the song they sang once crossing the sea! Sephardic Ladino songs too arranged in a beautiful way, (Zambra Judia, Triste esta el Rey David)

Original compositions in Hebrew by Mor herself, sometimes also played and arranged by her with personal lyrics and stories. a point of view never yet heard on Mor’s records, and last but not least, a Berber song from the Atlas mountains about the happy and significant ceremony of making tea!

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  • 1Saat Arahman04:19
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00002
  • 2Shirat Hayam04:05
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00001
  • 3Zambra Judia04:23
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Gal ShemiLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00003
  • 4Ahuv Estbeotai04:42
    Music: Mor KarbasiLyrics: Shoshana KarbasiISRC: GBD4K-22-00005
  • 5Bibilu04:07
    Music: Traditional/Mor KarbasiLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00004
  • 6Even Soheret03:05
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00012
  • 7Porque02:50
    Music: John Lennon/Paul McCartneyLyrics: John Lennon/Paul McCartneyISRC: GBD4K-22-00007
  • 8Judia05:11
    Music: Mor Karbasi/Joe TaylorLyrics: Shoshana KarbasiISRC: GBD4K-22-00008
  • 9Atay03:14
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00006
  • 10David03:39
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00010
  • 11Sahara04:03
    Music: Mor Karbasi/Tair SibonyLyrics: Shoshana KarbasiISRC: GBD4K-22-00011
  • 12Yadha Tanheni03:41
    Music: Traditional/Mor Karbasi/Moshe ElmakiasLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00009
  • 13Triste Esta el Rey David05:15
    Music: Traditional/Mor KarbasiLyrics: TraditionalISRC: GBD4K-22-00013
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Musician
  • Avishai Cohen: Trumpet (Track Nr 7)
  • Avri Borochov: Bass (Tracks Nr 1, 12)
  • David, Dagmi: Percussion (Tracks Nr 1, 4, 6, 9, 12)
  • Gal Shemi: Synth, Synth Bass (Track Nr 3)
  • Gilad Amsalem: Percussion (Track Nr 3)
  • Idit Mintzer: Trumpet, Flugelhorn (Tracks Nr 1, 6)
  • Itamar Doari: Percussion (Track Nr 7)
  • Joe Taylor: Percussion, E-Guitar, Guitar (Tracks Nr 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12)
  • Karbasi, Mor: Vocals, Percussion, Piano
  • Karin Markovich: Cello (Tracks Nr 1, 8, 10, 11)
  • Marianne Thor: Violin (Tracks Nr 1, 7, 8, 11)
  • Maya Belzisman: Cello (Track Nr 7)
  • Moshe Elmakias: Piano (Tracks Nr 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12)
  • Omri Raveh: Oboe (Track Nr 8)
  • Tair Sibony: Synths, Bass, Keys (Track Nr 11)
  • Tal Eisenberg: Viola (Tracks Nr 1, 7, 8, 10, 11)
  • Yazid Sahnini: Strings (Track Nr 3)
  • Yossi Fine (Track Nr 9)
  • Yshai Afterman: Percusion (Track Nr 4)
Producer
  • Gal Shemi (Track Nr 3)
  • Joe Taylor
  • Karbasi, Mor
  • Moshe Elmakias
  • Tair Sibony (Track Nr 11)
Mixer
  • Al Unsworth
Recording Studio
  • Joe Taylor Studios, Maaya Studio (Ein Kerem), Kicha Studios TLV
Mastering
  • Noel Sommerville
Photography
  • Tamar Benin
Cover Artwork
  • Betty Sasson Studio
Country of recording: SpainC2023 Mor & Co MusicP2023 Mor & Co Music