Various Artists
Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted - Baghdad, 1925-1929
Various Artists - Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted - Baghdad, 1925-1929 (2LP)
In the mid-1920s The Gramophone Company employed two or three Europeans to criss-cross Iraq. They logged regional demographics, assessed the German competition, and checked out the scores of record shops and hundreds of musical venues. In Kerbala its man fearfully disguised himself as an Arab.
This was the groundwork for three sessions, conducted in Baghdad in the second half of the decade, which produced nearly one thousand recordings — and drawing on their full range, Give Me Love is a wondrous, deeply poignant glimpse of social living since obliterated, in which ethnicities, faiths and traditions appear woven richly and meltingly together, however precariously.
- 01 Mulla Abdussaheb - Ya Yumma Weya Baba
- 02 Sayed Abbood - Min Fergetak Lilyom
- 03 Dahi Ben Walid - Soubhanak Allah
- 04 Sultana Youssef - Khouthni Bthemmetak
- 05 Salim Daoud - Abuthiyya
- 06 Khedayer Bin Kessab - Taqsim
- 07 Mulla Seoud El Koweity - Anouh Ithal Hathy
- 08 Said El Kurdi - Kassem Miro
- 09 Siddiqa El Mullaya - Wehak El Kab Walkossein
- 10 Hdhairy Abou Aziz - Fahasboukom Hatha
- 11 Kemani Noubar - Taqsim
- 12 Badria Anwar - Lega Taresh Habibi
- 13 Said El Kurdi - Aman Aman Zakko
- 14 Siddiqa El Mullaya - Ma Tehenn Alayya
- 15 Sayed Abbood - Shlon Aslak
- 16 Kementchedji Alecco - Taqsim
- 17 Salim Daoud - Abney Eqdah (part 1)
- 18 Salim Daoud - Abney Eqdah (part 2)
- 19 Hdhairy Abou Aziz - Wenini
- 20 Sultana Youssef - Malek Ana
- 21 Badria Anwar - Ahis Ras Eddelil
- 22 Saleh Ibrahim - Taqsim
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