From Morenika Izmirlia - Judeo-Spanish 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,...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This wedding cantiga structured in a Balkan asymmetrical meter of 9/8, describes the gifts that the bride and groom give to each other, while in the repeating...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This Bulgarian dowry song is an argument between the two future mother in laws. The groom’s mother, in the recurring verse, tells the brides mother that...
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 This song was traditionally sung to the groom's mother, when she welcomes her new daughter-in-law to at the reception welcoming the bride by her husband's family.
From Kanta Gayiko, Judeo-Spanish songs from Bulgaria, 2025 Under the musical and artistic direction of Susana Weich-Shahk, in a renewed rendition of this accumulative song, the characters and their arrangement remind us of those...