Ofra Haza – Yemenite Songs
(Globe Style Records 1985 ORB006)
Matrix No’s: A2/B2
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– perfect apart from small split on top edge covered with small strip of sellotape
Ofra Haza (19 November 1957 – 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer, songwriter, and actress, commonly known in the Western world as “the Madonna of the East”, or “the Israeli Madonna”. Her voice has been described as a “tender” mezzo-soprano. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Haza at number 186 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
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.
Track listing
Side A:
- “Im Nin’alu” (Shabazi) – 5:18
- “Yachilvi Veyachali” (Shabazi) – 3:27
- “A ‘Salk” (Shabazi, Traditional) – 4:45
- “Tzur Mentati”/”Se’i Yona”/”Sapri Tama” (Ben-Amram, Shabazi, Traditional) – 5:44
Side B:
- “Galbi” (Amram, Shabazi) 4:14
- “Ode Le-Eli” (Shabazi, Traditional) – 3:31
- “Lefelach Harimon” (Shabazi, Traditional) 5:08
- “Ayelet Chen” (Shabazi) – 6:30
Personnel
- Ofra Haza – lead vocals
- Benny Nagari – arranger, conductor, music producer
- Lesli Lishinski, Marvin Feinshmit – bassoon
- Ilan School – clarinet, bass clarinet
- Eli Magen – double bass
- Iki Levy – drums, congas, metal and wooden percussion, timbales
- Abigail Erenheim, Benny Nagari – flute, piccolo
- Shlomo Shochat – French horn
- Meril Grinberg, Herman Openstein – oboe, English horn
- Chaim Gispan – percussion (Yemenite tin & tambala)
- Strings: Avraham Rosenblatt, Elchanan Bregman, Israel Berkowitch, Israela Wisser, Rima Kaminkowski, Yigal Tuneh, Yitzchak Markowetzki, Yuval Kaminkowski
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