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Deben Bhattacharya
Religious Music From The Holy Land

Album SE 1968 on Expo Norr label
Spoken Word, Folk, World and (Field Recording, Religious)

Track info: COPTIC A1: Bells from the Coptic Church, Nazareth. Sunday morning, 30 June, 1957. A2: Quddass, Sunday morning celebration in the Coptic Church, Nazareth, 30 June, 1957. A3: Kyrie Eleison. Chant from the afternoon service at the Coptic Chapel in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 6 August, 1960. A4: Reading of the Text. Coptic Chapel in the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 6 August, 1960. DOMINICAN A5: Ite, Missa est and response. Recorded during St. Dominic's Greater-double Feast Day, Church of St. Dominic, Jerusalem, 4 August, 1960. GREEK ORTHODOX A6: Verses and responses from the evening service at the Greek Chapel of the Crucifixion in the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 6 August, 1960. A7: A hymn sung by massed choirs. From the evening service at the Greek Chapel of the Crucifixion in the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 6 August, 1960. ARMENIAN B1: Simandre. Suspended wooden plank rhythmically hammered with a mallet by a priest prior to the church service. Recorded at the Armenian Church, Jerusalem, 5 August, 1960. B2: A hymn from the afternoon service at the Armenian Church, Jerusalem, 5 August, 1960. JEWISH B3: Shir Hashirim, Song of Songs. Language: Hebrew. Style: Sephardic, of Hispano-Jewish origin. Jerusalem, 10 June, 1957. B4: Mizmor Shir Leyoum Shebat. Solo and chorus. Language: Hebrew. Style: Ashkenazi, of Eastern European origin. Jerusalem, 15 June, 1957. B5: Bereshit. Recital of the Hebrew Biblical text and the Aramaic translation. Recorded in Yishi, a Yemeni settlement, 18 June, 1957. B6: Mizmor Shir Channehat Beit, Psalm of David. Language: Hebrew, style: Yemeni. Recorded in Yishi, 18 June, 1957. ISLAMIC B7: Addhan, the muezzin's call to prayer. Recorded in the mosque of Ahmad el Jezzar Pasha, Acre, 8 July, 1957. B8: Waddoha, a section of Koranic verse. Recorded in el Jezzar Mosque, Acre, during the annual gathering at the Id prayers, 8 July, 1957. B9: Kurbani prayer. Recorded in el Jezzar Mosque, Acre, 8 July, 1957. "Sponsored by the National Centre for Folk Wide Concerts in Sweden (RIKSKONSERTER) under the auspices of The Museum for the History of Music, Stockholm" Gatefold sleeve with attached 12-page illustrated folder with liner notes in English.

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