"'I am the one who is in love,' Aroun Haouzi El Baidi sang majestically into a microphone in a Constantine recording studio in 1932, 'O my desired one.' On this ninety year old recording of “Ana al-ladhi bil-gharam ya saʿfaya” (أَنَا الذِي بَالغْرَامْ يَا سَعْفَايَا), the Aïn Beïda-born Algerian Jewish musician expertly executes an integral song-text of the mahjuz repertoire, itself part of the extended family of Constantine’s classical maluf tradition (and sometimes considered to be an antecedent to it). ..."
2019 February: Gharamophone
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