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Track Listings
| 1. Avre Tu Puerta Cerrada |
| 2. Morena Me Yaman |
| 3. Abraham Avinu |
| 4. El Rey De Francia Tres Hijas Tenia |
| 5. Tres Klavinas En Un Tiesto (Minnush) |
| 6. A La Una Yo Naci / Debajo De La Rosa |
| 7. Ki Eshmera Shabbat |
| 8. Adio Kerida |
| 9. La Komida La Manyana |
| 10. Ocho Kandelikas |
| 11. Avrich Mi, Galanika |
| 12. Alta Es La Luna (Bonus Track) |
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Album Description
As the Gipsy Kings reinvigorated flamenco and the Gotan Project revitalised tango so Los Desterrados have brought vibrant new life to Sephardic music.
Fusing Spanish Flamenco and the fiery Gipsy melodies
of the Balkans and Greece, with the rhythms of Morocco and Turkey, Los Desterrados have created a rootsy Mediterranean sound that is wholly their own.
Featuring traditional instruments such as the cajón and `oud with vocals in Ladino, the language of the Sephardic Jews, or Hebrew, the unconventional arrangements and rousing rhythms Los Des wield are heavily influenced by the music they've all grown up on as native North Londoners - rock `n' roll, jazz, folk, flamenco, funk and soul.
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"Because we haven't heard our grandmothers sing these songs we've come at them from our own angles" adds Hayley. Daniel chips in "We are modern people and living in London we're doing what Londoners do best - taking something and investing it with what we've heard around us, making it our own and creating something fresh"
"Being pushed around from country to country, often vilified, the history of the Sephardic communities is tragic" adds Jean Marc, "yet these songs are full of life, pride and passion and are a link back to a golden age of Spain when Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together in a time of prosperity and cultural cross-fertilisation."
Hayley agrees: "People have preconceptions of Jewish culture as being obsessed with tragedy or the Holocaust yet this music for me is very positive. Jews aren't all about misery, death, black hats and curly ringlets - Sephardic songs tend to be more romantic, earthy and more diverse than a lot of Klezmer songs - these songs have Latin fire in their bellies!"
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