From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is nocturnal duet is a love song of tenderness and stealth, where the young lover pleads to be let in before dawn, while the 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 Sung during the exhibition of the bride’s...
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 about a musician...
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 This is a humorous well known Romansa...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The copla on the Emigration to Palestine (La emigración a Palestina) is one of the coplas composed in the 20th century, portraying the history of the...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 During the bride’s bath, an event attended only by women, that, in both the Eastern and Western Sephardic traditions, a cumulative song is performed. Similar to...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This is one of the themes about captives and prisoners typical of the Hispanic Middle Ages and the wars between Moors and Christians. Recognition between sisters is a theme...
From Morenika Izmirlia, 2021 A lyrical cantiga modeled after Turkish songs, composed of several loosely connected stanzas that touch on varied themes: a plea to a matchmaker for a suitable bride, a young woman’s impatience...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is a lyrical cantiga of disconnected stanzas, with Turkish words included in the text. The second stanza alludes to military service, since he has weapons...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The medieval story of the long gone husband who returns and, without making himself known, tests his wife's fidelity, is a well-known theme in European ballads....
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 Against the backdrop of medieval wars, the romance The Return of the Husband (La vuelta del marido), reflects a pan-European theme. The husband returns after a...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This copla is likely influenced by late Midrashic sources, such as the Sefer HaYashar, which place Abraham’s birth in Ur Kasdim during the reign of King Nimrod, son of...