Update, January 11, 2017. Here is the original, Jacob Abitbol's "Khoti Khoti Ghadroni," posted on YouTube by the inimitable toukadime.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
Neta Alkayam covers Jacob Abitbol, "Khoti Khoti"
The great Moroccan Israeli singer Neta Alkayam covers a song from Jacob Abitbol -- father of the much better known Moroccan Jewish singer Haim Botbol. On Haim Botbol, please check out this post from the invaluable blog Jewish Morocco Jukebox. Jacob, the post says, was a respected vocalist and violin player who released a number of 45s in Morocco during the 1950s. I've not been able to find much else about Jacob. The video is, it's not surprising, drenched in nostalgia.
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Also enjoyed Neta's version and video a lot. I liked the, as you say, nostalgia and (what I took for) symbolism of the balloons and the tefillin. Good to see some new blogs here. Thanks.
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