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Article: Various The Hidden Gate: Jewish Music Around the World.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
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- Sing Out!
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- January 1, 2004
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Rounder 15083
This collection presents a splendid introduction to contemporary secular music drawn from tradition and perpetuated by the two major geographical camps, Jews originally from Spain and Mediterranean influenced countries, or Sephardim, and those primarily from Eastern Europe, or Ashkenazim. Disc One focuses on a potpourri from Sephardic lands, where Ladino and Hebrew are typically, but not exclusively, the languages sung. Such well-known artists as Israeli folk-pop star Chava Alberstein and the late Ofra Haza offer numbers. The latter sings "Ayelet Chen," ("The Charming Gazelle), from seventeenth-century poet Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, whose words talk ...