Live in India

Rivers of Babylon

Photograph by Sukanya Ghosh. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.'

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

CD cover of Remembered Rhythms Rivers of Babylon: Live in India .

Photograph by Sukanya Ghosh. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.'

Members of Rivers of Babylon on the Remembered Rhythms tour in Bangalore.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor. Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Vocalists - Sara Manasseh, Pam Solomon and Abe Hayeem.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor.Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Clapping in time!

Photograph by Navroze Contractor.Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Saeed Nathan on the flute and Peter Shade on the accordion.

Photograph by Navroze Contractor.Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

Sara Manasseh, leading the group with dumbuk .

Photograph by Navroze Contractor.Courtesy of the Remembered Rhythms Collection at ARCE.

The music performed by Rivers of Babylon, a London based group, is primarily the religious and secular music of the Babylonian (also knows as the Baghdadi or Iraqi) Jewish tradition. The members belong to the Baghad Jewish community in India, who migrated to India during the eighteenth century. Being the most recent of the Jewish communities to migrate to India, the music remains closest to that of the homeland. Harking back to their Indian roots, Rivers of Babylon includes in their repertoire songs from the Bene Israeli Jewish tradition as well as vintage Bollywood hits. This album consists of live recordings of the Remembered Rhythms tour, a music festival which travelled to seven Indian cities in February 2005 celebrating the music of India in a diasporic context. Rivers of Babylon and the music they perform represents the Jewish Indian diaspora India, and the Indian diaspora in the UK.

Track Listing

101	Yehi Shalom Behelenu (Let there be peace in our midst) Rivers of Babylon	03:40
102	Muqaddima Hijaz (An instrumental prelude in the mode of hijaz) Rivers of Babylon	02:43
103	Ki Esherah Shabbath / Balini-b-Balwa (Because I keep the Sabbath / He is a plague on me!) Rivers of Babylon	04:45
104	Simeni Rosh ak Kol Oybai (Place me above all my foes) Rivers of Babylon	05:33
105	Yom Hashshabbath (The Sabbath Day) Rivers of Babylon	02:40
106	El Eliyyahu (Lord of Elijah) Rivers of Babylon	03:23
107	Eliyyahu Hannabee (Elijah, the Prophet) Rivers of Babylon	04:26
108	Sinai Sinai Ayyeh Mosheh / Sinai Dongrawar Moshela (Sinai Sinai, where is Moses? / Moses, upon Mount Sinai) Rivers of Babylon	06:12
109	Emeth ata Hathenenu (Truly, You are our bridegroom) Rivers of Babylon	03:55
110	Ya Nabi (Oh Prophet!) Rivers of Babylon	02:51
111	Longa Nahawand (An instrumental genre Longa in the mode Nahawand) Rivers of Babylon	03:11

Catalog

Live in India

Track Listing

Release Info

Catalog Number

Year(s) Released

Label(s)/Collection(s)

Artist(s)

Country(s)

Genre(s)

Language(s)

Recording Era(s)

.