REINETTE L'ORANAISE
Tresors de la chanson judeo-arabe

BUDA 860133


Buda
Algeria

 

Born in the Maghreb, Arab-Jewish singers have been both protagonists of and witnesses to a music style shared for centuries with their Muslim compatriots. They all cultivate flowers of rhetoric that draw their essence and fragrance from the blessed times of Andalucia, the nerve centre of the Mediterranean cultural ferment where Jews, Christians and Muslims respected and fraternised with one another. Having deserted the Maghreb after the Independence of each state, the Jews pursued their musical practice in France, yet limited to their community until they were rehabilitated and gained access to larger audiences with the explosion of oriental sounds in the 90s and the launching of the collection «Treasures of Arab-Jewish song», from which we are re-releasing the most emblematic figures. CDs 1 and 2 feature the last legend, Reinette l’Oranaise, and Blond-Blond, the most unorthodox Maghreb Jewish singer, known to be an ‘ambianceur’ (ambience creator).