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New recording of the band BraAgas bears a title which characterizes the entire album. The exclamation Yallah! is commonly used in all Arabic speaking countries as a booster or incentive such as “Come on!”, “Let’s move it!”. The band again claims allegiance to Sephardic songs which form the majority on the album, but not only to them – the listener will travel through entire Mediterranean region – from Spain through Balkans all the way to Turkey.
The album Yallah! is the fifth recording of BraAgas in seven years of their existence and the band presents here traditional European songs in their own arrangements. The band which is formed in four fifths by ladies won the Anděl Award nomination for the previous album Fuerte (2012) in the category of World Music and for the album Tapas (2009) they won. Yallah! follows the previous albums, this time with less electronic music which was replaced with energy, outstanding instrumentation and upbeat arrangements.

BraAgas on Yallah! aimed for Sephardic songs and songs from Balkan region (mostly from Serbia). “We still hold on to our favorite songs of Spanish Jews but this time the songs are collected from all over the Mediterranean – you can hear influence from Turkey or Greece. The Sephardi lived in Spain until 1492, and then they moved to all over this region. What we like about it is that the songs are at first very unusual for our ears – strange harmonies, odd rhythms… but given that this is folk creations passed on through centuries, the songs are very solid and seem wholesome and organic as they are.”

Kateřina Göttlichová explains the approach to the songs and the list of selected songs: “We admit that while selecting the songs we focus more on melody and then the lyrics. Most of those songs are about love. In folk songs there are often many insinuations, allegories…especially on this album, there ar.......
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