Xurxo Fernándes transformed into Jako the Muzikante presents “Ven al Luna Park” a book-disc with the aroma and flavor of the Sephardic music of the Amman cafés of Thessaloniki at the beginning of the th century. In the earthly paradise of the Alhambra two edicts were signed on March that condemned the Sephardic people to wandering eternity. Expulsion laws that remained formally in force until the Spanish constitution of . Those who left were forever foreigners wherever they arrived and perhaps that is why they tried even harder to preserve a thread that united them to their roots by keeping the keys to their houses their language and their traditions. As Manuel Mira wrote in “The olive tree that did not burn in Thessaloniki” the history of the Sephardic people has a lot to do with the history of eternity.
Five hundred years later the Galician musician construction of contemporary musical culture moving in time and space to an Amman café at the beginning of the th century in Thessaloniki that was then part of the Ottoman Empire. A world in which Xurxo immersed UAE Phone Number himself first learning Ladino or Judeo-Spanish and then carrying out field work in the Sephardic communities of the eastern Mediterranean. Why is Jako coming back now? Or did he never leave? I believe that Jako is a continuum it is a story that began more than five hundred years ago. It was a romance with Safarad with the current Iberian Peninsula it represents a coexistence and enrichment with that multiethnic and multicultural community that was the Ottoman Empire.
The Safardi community is one of the few that managed to live integrated always in a minority and without losing its identity which is saying a lot. What was that Thessaloniki like at the beginning of the th century that Jako lives in? Just at that time the Sephardic community itself and the city of Thessaloniki was experiencing a great change such as the Europeanization of its eastern culture with great changes in the social aspect in traditions. Changes that were criticized and praised. A time in which the idea of what we should maintain about ourselves and our culture still makes more sense. What is essential and what is superficial that we can let go. Jako el Muzikante embodies that debate that the Sephardic community had at the time.
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