fil bo'adi yama

[theoudman]

I would like to share two renditions of this dawr, one by Saleh Abdel Hai (I might have posted this on zeryab once) and one by Moshe Eliyahu, an unbelievable singer from the Israeli radio that died in the 1990s.

[أبو علاء]

Thanks, Victor, for Moshe Eliaho's version. He was a nice performer indeed (you have quite a good number of waslahs by the Israeli radio ensemble featuring him with Fayzah Rushdi as solo singers as well as a couple of mawwals by him). Salih 'abdi-l-hay was previously posted in a thread dedicated to samples of his dawrs, here : http://www.zamanalwasl.net/forums/sh...C3%CF%E6%C7%D1

[Hattouma]

who is the composer ?

[أبو علاء]

Muhammad 'uthman.

[Najib]

ya nour el 3ouyoun anest.

Thanks Victor,

Saleh we bass! (or until Fred bombard us with his new Higazi file - allah yestur) :-)

[Hattouma]

أه أنا بقيت بخاف ن ملفات الراجل ده
سلامة ده خطير جدا

!!
I wonder if is there any label that recorded the music of Moshe Eliyahu or El-Dar ensemble

[theoudman]

I know most of the recordings I have of Moshe Eliyahu are from the radio. As أبو علاء said, he recorded numerous waslahs, i have a bunch of muwashahat and dawrs recorded by him, really nice stuff.
I dont know of any worthwhile cds of him out there.
Here he is singing aslil gharam.
Enjoy the bombardment

[Najib]

Shadi has posted a mean "Hawwel Ya Ghannam" by him somewhere either here or on Zeryab.

[fredlag@noos.fr]

Moshe Eliahu has a really nice voice and technique, but the nwiristic ensemble playing with him is unbearable. So much for my hopes Judeo-Arab singers who emigrated to Israel would prove more conservative...

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But before I hit you with a new Salama recording, I feel it's rather urgent to hit you with the only serious rendition one should consider when debating Fel bo3d yama, that is Shaykh Yusuf al-Manyalawi's.

The state of the record, unfortunately, was very bad when I copied it. Please bear with the khashkhasha; I reckon you will not regret it.
This is the first series of Shaykh Yusuf takes recorded for Gramophone by Fred Gaisberg, Cairo, April 1907.
Gramophone 012212/13/14/15, matrix nb 1131/32/33/34
a decent and clean original record exists as Hayes if Hattouma wants to go forward with his break-in plan. I own an original record and will probably try to have it transfered in Paris by professionals some day I'm rich, but my record is also quite worn out.

[theoudman]

Moshe Eliahu has a really nice voice and technique, but the nwiristic ensemble playing with him is unbearable. So much for my hopes Judeo-Arab singers who emigrated to Israel would prove more conservative...

The "problem" with the ensembles accompanying Eliyahu is that most of the musicians were great artists in their own right
Abraham Salman on the qanun, Saleh al Kuwaiti or Zuzu Mousa violin, Yaaqob Mourad on the daff, whos going to control these great musicians?