This 20th-century repertoire includes theatre music and new lyrics set to popular melodies like tangos and local songs. Themes often reflect social trends, such as fashion, or explore immigration to Palestine, highlighting its challenges and hopes.
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song criticizes the free ways of modern women. It's melody and refrain are borrowed from “La Madelon”, a popular French World War I song about a lively girl...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Kobi Zarco: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón A song celebrating the meeting of Bulgarian...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 The lyrics of this Sephardic song appeared in a collection first published in the newspaper La Trompeta, and later gathered in a notebook titled...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 Typical of cancionero, this song has stanzas of various unconnected themes: one stanza presents the three carnations (the red one, for the beginning of love), another,...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. A humorous pasodoble describing the dire circumstances of young women remaining single due to massive male emigration out of Tetuan to Argentina, Brazil and Palestine,...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song is by Sadik and Gazoz, (Sadik Gershon and Moshe Cazes) who set humorous ladino texts to popular tunes between 1924-1935 in Saloniki. This song was set to...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. From Sadik and Gazoz's booklet XI, sung to the melody of the Greek song "Trava, vre manga ke alani" by an unknown composer, under the description of how girls...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 This is a wedding lament with acrimonious expressions, sighed for the expenses that the marriage entails for the family, and with an ironic comment...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This song represents the vegetable seller who sells his vegetables as he flirts with his female customers. This song follows closely the Greek song "Manavi kai doula" or "Eho...
From Arboleras vol. 3, Sephardic songs from the 20th century, 2000 Another song referring to the Sephardic trades in the Jewish quarters of Salonika, in this case, the vegetable seller. In it, terms like karavozchi...