{"id":925,"date":"2008-05-19T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T06:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=925"},"modified":"2008-05-19T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T06:23:27","slug":"the-music-of-mor-karbasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"The music of Mor Karbasi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I buy a CD without hearing a single track and without even knowing the performer because I have read a good review and want to try something new. This is why I listened for the first time this weekend to &#8220;The Beauty And The Sea&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintakamusic.com\/mor_karbasi\/\">Mor Karbasi<\/a>.<br \/>\nShe is a London-based Israeli singer whom the &#8220;Guardian&#8221; has described as &#8220;one of the great young divas of the global music scene&#8221;. She is directly descended from both Moroccan and Persian Jews and she is an exponent of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ladino_language\">Ladino<\/a> music and surviving songs of the late 15th century when Jewish and Muslim communities in Spain were expelled by the Christians.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Beauty And The Sea&#8221; features songs in Ladino, Hebrew and Spanish. It is melodic, moving, and magical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I buy a CD without hearing a single track and without even knowing the performer because I have read a good review and want to try something new. This is why I listened for the first time this weekend to &#8220;The Beauty And The Sea&#8221; by Mor Karbasi. She is a London-based Israeli singer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}