Zion 80 explores the music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach through the lens of the Afrobeat master Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

#3450: Global Jewish Music

New Sounds | Aug 16, 2015

For this New Sounds, hear arrangements of Jewish wordless songs of praise from around the world. There’s Nigerian style Afrobeat, trancey jazz, Afro-cuban dance music, a DJ collaboration, and music from the Jewish people of Uganda. A Fela Kuti-style band, led by guitarist Jon Madof does up the prayers that Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach set to music, and takes as its name “Zion80,” a nod to Fela’s “Nigeria 70/Africa 70.”

Plus, the Algerian-Jewish pianist Maurice El Medioni and New York based Cuban-Jewish percussionist Roberto Rodriguez take advantage of their Arabic Sephardic connection, to create transcontinental Afro-Cuban dance-brilliance. Also, hear music from Moroccan Rabbi Haim Louk and the Arab-Andalousian Orchestra of Fez, made on location by John Schaefer.

PROGRAM #3450, Global Jewish Music (First aired on 4/4/2013)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Jewish People of Uganda	Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda	Hiwumbe Awumba (God Creates and then Destroys) [2:33]	Smithsonian Folkways #40504 www.folkways.si.edu
David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness!	Klezmer NY	The Streets Of Klezmer, NY [5:17]	Tzadik 7127 www.tzadik.com
Jon Madof	Zion80	Nygun [7:22]	Tzadik 8175 www.tzadik.com
Solomon and SoCalled	Hiphopkhasene	Gasn nign [3:26]	Piranha 1789 www.piranha.de
Andy Statman	Between heaven and Earth	Reb Nachman's Deveykus Niggun [5:40]	Shanachie #64079 Available at Amazon.com
Jon Madof	Zion80	Nygun Reprise [4:56]	See above.
Maurice El Medioni meets Roberto Rodriguez	Descarga Oriental	Malika [7:06]	Piranha #2003 www.piranha.de
Roberto Rodriguez	El Danzon de Moises	Jerusalem Market [6:25]	Tzadik 7158 www.tzadik.com
Rabbi Haim Louk & Arab-Andalousian Orchestra of Fez	Live, Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, 2000	Ya Moulana [7:00]	This performance not commercially available. For info on available recordings, try www.haimlouk.com

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