Artist: Emil Zrihan and Abedsalam Safiani - Soloists Title: Maghreb I - Orchestre Andalou D'Israel (The Israeli Andalf rfusian Orchestra) Category: Sephardic

Order #: 01128 This Cd contains a variety of Jewish Moroccan music perfomed by the renown Israeli Andalousian Orchestra and soloists Emil Zrihan (Israel) and Abedslam Safiani (Moracco). The production is first class. Highly recommended.Maghreb I compiles a selectionof music that was popular among Moroccan Jews for the last centuries, varying from old Andalusian styled songs originated in the 14th and 15th centuries until 20th century popular music, influenced mainly by Egyptian style of writing.The Moroccan singer Abdesalam Safiani is joining forces here with celebrated Israeli Cantor, Emil Zrihan, to create an authentic spectacle of this nearly vanishing traditional Jewish music.The album was recorded during a live concert at old Jaffa in 1999.The orchestraÕsdirector and conductor, Dr. Avi Eilam Amzallag, continues here his long and ambitious journey, dedicated to the restoration and preservation of a unique musical trend that flourished for centuries and thus is revived and available for nowadays listeners.

Tracks:
1.   Ya Rayah
2.   Ana-Ladi, Hob El Komar
3.   Bint Bladi
4.   Touchia Sika - Instrumental
5.   Inseraf Min bassit Istihlal
6.   Elkoudam Eljdid