A ten-minute documentary of the Barcelona-based Group Mashalá! Sefardi-Mizrahi and World Groove Music. (Mashalá! = Congratulations! in Ladino, Turkish and Arabic or "what God wills"). Like the branches of an ancient tree, the roots of Judeo-Arabic music are inexorably linked in the repetoire of Mashalá. The versatile band delivers beautiful and haunting melodies from the realms of Sefardi exile such as Turkey, Greece, Morroco, Algeria Bosnia, Bulgaria, Romania, etc.: An ecclectic yet ample selection of post-inquisition songs of Sefardi, Mizrahi and Al-Andalous origin in Ladino (Judeo-Castellano) Hebrew, Hebrew-Rashí (Maghreb), Arabic and French. That being said, the music of Mashalá!´ has universal appeal.
Who's who:
Ellen Gould Ventura, Principal Singer / Director (Canadian-Sefardí)
Ernesto Briceño, Violin, vocals and supplementary percussion(Venezuela)
Aziz Khodari, Principal percussion and singer, (Morrocco);
Franco Molinari, Stand Up bass, vocals and supplementary percussion (Italy);
Lautaro Rosas, Arabic Oud (Chile)
Contact: mashalabcn@gmail.com
(Versions in Spanish and French also avail).