From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 This is an abbreviated version of a romance which tells the story of how a mother in law plotted against her daughter in law while she...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman : voice Yarden Erez : accompanyment and arrangements One of the better known Ladino songs, adopted from a Bulgarian folksong song, as presented in the...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. One of the few romansas with a practical role in the wedding ritual, traditionally sung in Saloniki by the women of the bride’s family, friends, and neighbors during the...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón This song reflects a mother’s ruminations about...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. This is a song of good advice to the Bar Mitsvah boy as he grows into manhood: to be hard working and an early riser; he should take care...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush, violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón This wedding song includes typically several themes:...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo songs from Smyrna, 2020 This wedding song weaves together several recurring themes: A reference to Song of Songs, Chapter 1: “Do not gaze at me because I am dark, for...
From Merendjenas, Orit Perlman, 2023 This romance is known only in the Sephardic Moroccan tradition. It retells the story of Moses, his flight from Midian, the revelation of the burning bush and his confrontation with...
From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish songs from Smyrna, 2020 The romance about The Deceived Woman (La mujer engañada) is formulated like a lullaby. The protagonist, in the first person, tells about the betrayal of her...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. This copla celebrates the giving of the Torah, drawing on Talmudic commentaries and legends, and interweaving numerous Hebrew expressions. It is composed in quatrains with...
From Ventanas Altas de Saloniki, 2013. In this copla, El parto feliz - The Happy Birth, emerges as a communal event, accompanied by prayers and blessings for the entire congregation, blessing the newborn and his...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 A dialogue between groom and bride in alternate stanzas, this wedding cantiga structured in a Balkan asymmetrical meter of 9/8 (2+2+2+3), , describes the gifts that the...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Kobi Zarco, Orit Perlman: voice Yarden Erez : ud, guitar, gumbush; violin, keyboard and arrangements Zeev Yaniv : darbuqa, sonaja, bendir, cajón This song was performed at...
From Decile a mi Amor, Judeo-Spanish songs from Tetuan, 2018. In later epic poems like Las Mocedades de Rodrigo, the legend of El Cid includes the tale of him killing Jimena Gómez's father, after which...