Abayudaya: Music From Jewish People of Uganda
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Brand: Smithsonian Folkways RecordingsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Model: SFW40504
Music Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Soundtracks:
- Psalm 136
- Katonda Oyo Nalimana (God Is All-Knowing)
- Hiwumbe Awumba (God Creates And Then Destroys)
- M Wana Ta Li Tambula (The Child Wi Ll Never Walk)
- M Wana, Ngolera (Baby, Keep Quiet)
- Tulo, Tulo (Sleep, Sleep)
- I Am A Soldier
- Mi Khamokhah (Who Is Like You [, O God]?)
- Kabbila (The Patch Of Forest)
- Twagala Torah (We Love The Torah)
- We Are Happy
- Adon Olam (Master Of The World)
- Lekhah, Dodi (Come, My Beloved)
- Psalm 92
- Psalm 93
- Kiddush And Motzi (Sabbath Blessing Over Wine And Bread)
- Psalm 121
- Maimuna
- Hinei Ma Tov (Behold How Good [It Is For Brothers To Dwell Together])
- Ali Omu Yekka (My Only One)
- Psalm 150
- Deuteronomy 32:8, Song Two (Selection)
- Deuteronomy 32:39?43, Song Eight
- Psalm 130
Music reviews of Abayudaya: Music From Jewish People of Uganda
Music Review: EarthAngelChoir
Rating: 5 Stars
Place me squarely in the pack of people who love this cd. I picked this one up in early 2004 and have been loving it ever since. I listened to it again last night and earlier today and felt it to be even more powerful than usual.
I'm surprised one reviewer remarked about the rather low-tech recording. This disc? This disc is as good as you can imagine a field-recording sounding. If you let yourself go, you are right there in that little temple with these fantastic singers. There is as little distance between performer and listener on this disc as is possible. Their voices are all around you.
The break down is like this... 2 songs in english, a few tunes of very bad keyboard-dominated Afro-pop, one great tune with singing and drumming, a couple with acoustic guitar, and the rest is some of the most beautiful vocal music I've ever been lucky enough to experience. Maybe it's just me, but there is something about great women's voices. Most of these tunes are dominated by the voices of young women, sometimes young women and girls, and sometimes females and males.
I can't even really find the words for this disc. This is a brilliant Ugandan folk choir, I guess I'd call them. This music is love and extended-family as song. It's a cliche to comment on the call-and-response aspect in this or that African musics, but it is such a wide open thing. So much possibility exists. Some of my all-time favorite call-and-response happens on this disc. These young women are in that upper tier of the best that humans have to offer each other.
This is deeply spiritual community music of the highest order. There is something so gentle and pure and seemingly innocent about this music. It breaks my heart every time I hear it. It's the sweet soul of a community purely translated into sound without ego. I can feel like the whole of the world is going straight down the toilet in a swirling flush of cultural and environmental destruction, of greed and violence and pain. Then I listen to this disc (aside from the keyboard-pop which I skip) and I get to have over an hour where I'm again reminded of the beauty that humans are occasionally able to create and/or be a part of. There are a couple tunes here that have made tears stream down my face every single time I have heard them. I'm honored just to be the same species as the people recorded for this cd. For me this disc really is a gift to humanity. It touches me as deeply as anything ever has.
This is IT, folks. If track #14 is the last thing I hear in the waning moments of this, my earthly existence, I will be going softly into my goodnight with tears on my face and a smile in my heart.
Description of Abayudaya: Music From Jewish People of Uganda
Abayudaya: The Music of the Jews of Uganda presents a unique collection of African-Jewish music in which the rhythms and harmonies of Africa blend with Jewish celebration and traditional Hebrew prayer. This compelling repertoire is rooted in local Ugandan music and infused with rich choral singing, Afro-pop, and traditional drumming. The repertoire includes lullabies, political and children's song, religious rituals, hymns, and celebratory music, with song texts in Hebrew, English, and several Ugandan languages. This singular community of African people living committed Jewish lives has survived persecution and isolation and asserts, "We have been saved by our music." 24 tracks.
LYRICSAdditional notes, lyrics, and translations available here.
AWARDS
2005 GRAMMY Award Nominee for Best Traditional World Album
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