Music CD - Various Artists: Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda

	Music CD: Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda Artist: Various Artists List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $11.24 Your Save: $ 5.74 ( 34% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways
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Tracks: 1. Psalm 136 2. Katonda Oyo Nalimana (God Is All-Knowing) 3. Hiwumbe Awumba (God Creates And Then Destroys) 4. M Wana Ta Li Tambula (The Child Wi Ll Never Walk) 5. M Wana, Ngolera (Baby, Keep Quiet) 6. Tulo, Tulo (Sleep, Sleep) 7. I Am A Soldier 8. Mi Khamokhah (Who Is Like You [, O God]?) 9. Kabbila (The Patch Of Forest) 10. Twagala Torah (We Love The Torah) 11. We Are Happy 12. Adon Olam (Master Of The World) 13. Lekhah, Dodi (Come, My Beloved) 14. Psalm 92 15. Psalm 93 16. Kiddush And Motzi (Sabbath Blessing Over Wine And Bread) 17. Psalm 121 18. Maimuna 19. Hinei Ma Tov (Behold How Good [It Is For Brothers To Dwell Together]) 20. Ali Omu Yekka (My Only One) 21. Psalm 150 22. Deuteronomy 32:8, Song Two (Selection) 23. Deuteronomy 32:39–43, Song Eight 24. Psalm 130
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093074050422 Label: Smithsonian Folkways Manufacturer: Smithsonian Folkways Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Smithsonian Folkways Release Date: 2003-10-21 Studio: Smithsonian Folkways
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Visceral, genuine, transcendent Comment: Don't expect broadway- it aint. If you have memories of singing around a campfire and memories of feeling in tune with your spiritual community you will appreciate this album. Very Jewish. Very African. Very nice. Customer Rating: Summary: Eerie Comment: Strange to hear familiar religious chants sung by African voices in beautiful melodies. Highly recommended Customer Rating: Summary: This CD was just nominated for a Grammy! Comment: I know the producer of this album, and just received word that it was nominated for a Grammy Award in the World Music Category! I have listened to several tracks and it is gorgeous. Customer Rating: Summary: Tim mcdougal--Do it your self jew? Comment: I found the the Cd to be great authentic music of the Jewish people of Ugandan. Although many of the Ugandan jews converted to judaism, WHO HASN'T Every one who is jewish has converted some time or another unless there is someone who can claim heir to MOSES or Rabbi Akiva for that matter. There are many indigenous black africans who are jews who have not converted to judaism in recent years. It would only make sense, since jews in history were always black people and didn't become so-called white until the mixing with europeans. I would definately recommended this CD. It seems that Tim mcdougal doesnt understand what being jewish or jewish music is for that matter. He should check out the jewish prince Joshua Nelson's music. Kosher gospel music www.joshuanelson.com Customer Rating: Summary: EarthAngelChoir Comment: 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. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: No one's ever going to accuse Smithsonian Folkways of not practicing niche marketing with Abayudaya: Music From The Jewish People Of Uganda. Currently a community of 600 people, the Abayudaya developed their faith in relative isolation since converting to Judaism in 1919 under the guidance of Semei Kakungulu, a military leader who fought Muslims and Catholics for control of Uganda. Consequently, these 24 songs are distinctly African, often with polyphonic vocal harmonies (of men, women, and children) that joyfully soar in Hebrew, English, and several Ugandan languages. There are also touches of celebratory Afro-pop with rudimentary electric keyboard and guitar and a handful of more personal solo vocal performances. While some of this was recorded in a makeshift studio, the field recordings are what capture this unique culture's essence, as crickets (and once even a goat) providing ambient coloring. One of the most interesting international and religious albums of the year, this music transcends its ambition of being Jewish music by and for Jews. --Tad Hendrickson