Wandering around Jewish music

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Yiddish Shmus music by the duo Sense.
Well-known and lesser-known Yiddish songs fill the debut CD of this duo, consisting of Ilona Cechova and Rolinha Kross. According to the duo themselves, the music is music to catch up on, music to drink a glass of wine with. You could do anything, even shut up and just listen to it.
CD: Jiddische Sjmoesmuziek – Sense [NL].
Tracks: 1-2-12-15-18-20.
LABEL: Syncoop (1994(, code: 5754 CD 167. Video

2- Dafné Kritharas.
A mixture of Mediterranean music with jazz, folk and subtle electronics. Paris-born Dafné Krithara has a Greek father and French mother. She became particularly interested in rembetiko and Judeo-Spanish songs. In Greece there was a large Ladino community, descendants of Spanish-speaking Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. However, she does not limit herself only to Greek music. Dafné sings effortlessly in Greek, Judeo-Spanish, French, Serbian-Croatian, Spanish or Turkish.
CD: Varka – Dafné Kritharas – tracks: 2-3-6-8-10.
LABEL: Lior (2021), code: LIO02/1. Video

3- The Yiddish cabaret Li-La-Lo Amsterdam by Jossy and Jacques Halland. LiLaLo was a Yiddish living room theater in Amsterdam from 1959 to 1983. The name LiLaLo is Hebrew and means For me, for her, for him. It was the last Yiddish music cabaret in Western Europe. Variety artist Jossy Halland, the daughter of a Polish opera singer and operetta diva, received her artistic training at the Jewish Theater in Warsaw. In LiLaLo she performed as a chansonnière and cabaret artist. Before LiLaLo opened, Jacques Halland was a jazz pianist and performed with the French Fernandel and Edith Piaf, among others. Admission to the cabaret was free, but guests were expected to have a drink. LiLaLo’s guests included Pablo Picasso, Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini.
CD: Het Jiddische cabaret li-la-lo Amsterdam – Jossy en Jacques Halland.
LABEL: Fonos (1965), code: LP-2873 – tracks: 1-4-5-9. Video

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