Music

Yemenite Songs 1984

By Ofra Haza

  • club, folk, pop
  • 39 min
  • 8 tracks
  • הד ארצי

Yemenite Songs is a 1984 album by Ofra Haza, in which the Israeli pop star interpreted traditional Yemeni Jewish songs with lyrics coming from the poetry of 16th century Rabbi Shalom Shabazi. The album was recorded with both traditional and modern musical instruments; wooden and metal percussion, Yemenite tin and tambala, strings, brass and woodwind as well as drum machines and synthesizers. The songs are sung in the Hebrew language with a Yemenite accent and in Arabic.

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Grave, character-led, earnest and classical in form.

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  • character-ledplot-driven
  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • intimateepic

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