Performer: Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès, Ahmed Saher, Jean-Christophe Candau, Jérôme Casalonga, Jean-Étienne Langiann, Rachid El Mazzaoui
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Release: 2021
Size: 2.66 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Recitative “Zidni bifarti”
02. anon.: “Per gloriam nominis tui Christe filius dei vivi” (opening of the Mozarabic Mass)
03. anon.: “Allaho akbar” (Muslim call to prayer)
04. anon.: Alleluia “Beatus homo” – “Et erit tamquam lignum” – “Kam laka mine ni’matine alaya”
05. anon.: “In omnem terram exivit sonus” – “Non sunt sermones neque loquelle” – Prosula
06. anon.: Laetatus sum
07. anon.: Introït “Benedicam te”
08. anon.: Prosula “Ahmadou al hadi”
09. anon.: Alleluia – Verses 1, 2, 3
10. anon.: Prosula “Tarakto baba arraja”
11. anon.: Recitative “In medio ecclesie aperuit os ejus”
12. anon.: “Os iusti meditabitur justitiam” – “Lex dei eius in corde ipsius” – “Tin dalalan” – “Ya alima l’aasrar”
13. anon.: “Levavi oculos meos in montes”
14. anon.: Alleluia “De profundis clamavi ad te Domine” – “Ya rabi bihim”
15. anon.: “In memoria eterna erit justus” – Verses 1-4
This recording came to fruition thanks to nearly 25 years’ worth of efforts. In 1997, Marcel Pérès and his Ensemble Organum began a simultaneous exploration of the Mozarabic rite (the liturgical chant peculiar to the Christians living in Spain at the time of Arab rule) and of the Samaa spiritual practice of Morocco. Setting aside the theological differences between the two faiths, the artists discovered a great deal of kinship between the two forms of musical expression. A veritable utopia, the idea for this recording then suggested itself: through music, to regain the lost accord of human brotherhood.