Can music connect distant cultures?
Arabic music and flamenco merges almost as if it's the same thing. The muslim kingdom of Al-Andalus existed for seven hundred years in...
Like the moon in a deep blue evening
When Shlomo Idov was 14 he left Argentina, and also his first love. On the boat he wrote and composed a beautiful love song dedicated to...
Elohim Eshala - a melody travels from Yemen to Israel
Yemenite singing has a very special "color" to it. The Jews in Yemen developed their music quite separately from the Arabs, so their...
A Jerusalem Piyut, from a Cairo Song
This is a short version of longer text I wrote for the Jewish Music Research Centre, with Prof. Edwin Seroussi, a few years back: An...
El Llanto - a beautiful Malagueña
This beautiful Malagueña was released by Pedro Sierra, in his album Nikelao, in 2009. It was 33 years after the singer, the great Pepe...