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Jibal As-Sawan / Mountains of Esawan (Baalbeck 1969) Editor's quick notes: For over 2 hours in this double CD album (much like all the other musical plays), spans the tale of Jibal As-swan. It's about Gherbe, the daughter of the marytered protector of the village Mudlej. It's about how the villagers with the help of Gherbe got themselves rid of the oppressor Fatek. Written and produced after the fall of Jerusalem, Sinai, Golan Hieghts in 1967 when the people, and especially artists and writers, in the Arab world was in shock of what happened. It was, and still is a call for a saviour. The technical quality of the CDs is great and fortunately the tracks are divided to the songs but in some songs, there is a shift from the right speaker to the left one in a very awkard way that it must be a techincal fault. The play also features a big cast including Nasri Shamessedin, Huda, Antoine Kerbage, Elie Chouieri, Nawal Kikk, William Haswani, Joseph Nassif and Marwan Mahfouz. There is more than one song that became familiar outside of the play like 'Daret'l Alali', 'Watani' and 'Sayyef ya Sayef'. You might, after sometime, skip the dialogue tracks, but eventually you would have known all the lines. There is also a very great and funny performance by the late and great Philemon Wehbe as Naoum AlHabila. Some of the Alhabila's quotes from the play. Booklet Summary (contains plot spoilers): |
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