From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The copla of the Debate of the Vegetables (El debate de las verduras) belongs to a group of debate coplas that include exchanges between flowers, colors,...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. The fires left a deep mark on the communities affected by the disaster; in the songs, there are numerous references to the events related to the destruction of Salonica....
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 A song of parting of the bride from her family. This is a widely spread song in the congregations of Turkey, Saloniki, Sarayevo and Rhodes. This...
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 an anecdote of the early...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. From ‘Esther’, a musical play in three acts depicting the story of Purim, which articulates the plot via various operatic genres: recitativo, arias, duets and choruses. Some of its...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is one of the few hexasyllabic romances whose lines do not have 16 syllables (as is more common, divided into two hemistiches of 8) but...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This tells the Purim story of Haman and Mordechai. This was the first printed copla first published around the year 1700 and reprinted until 1923. The verses are in...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This song gives a portrait of the first Bulgarian settlers in their new agricultural village called Bet Hanan in the soon to be State of Israel. They...
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...