Another Music Thread (inspiring songs)

[Bill77]

I adore Egejski classics. Their songs are poetic as in they are aesthetic and brings calm and peace to my heart. Your Nikola Badev and Sarievski classics have the same effect though more depressive but poetic nonetheless.

Badev and Sarievski.... farrrrk that makes me look old.

[Bill77]

My favorite feel good Narodna song of all time


Добри Ставрески - Сношти минав покрај вази

https://youtu.be/vEHl4mCqqU8

Lambe Alabakoski version is a nice modern version as well

https://youtu.be/ouviuhYjLQE

[vicsinad]

Odime, Pejme.

This is from the "Kosturians", a band formed in Indiana, USA in the 1950s. Classic song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXqcV7pzFxA

[Carlin]

Uci me majko performance by two Serbian kids - Bojana and Nebojsa Brdaric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7lM9SH-nM

[Carlin]

Song dedicated to Pitu Guli and Macedonia, in the Arman language.

Libertati i ca moarti (Freedom or death)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=283&v=oADSdV0VvoQ

PS:

Another version -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIjcd0NlbY

[Niko777]

"Velat ne nema" for the first time sung in Aegean Macedonia (Voden region)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFVF7s03M1U

[VMRO]

Song dedicated to Pitu Guli and Macedonia, in the Arman language.

Libertati i ca moarti (Freedom or death)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=283&v=oADSdV0VvoQ

PS:

Another version -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipIjcd0NlbY

I remember seeing Biser Balkanski sun in Vlach a few years back on youtube.

[Bill77]

Keeping ethnic Macedonian music traditions alive in Greece. Hrisoula Papadopoulou and Chepkalo Projects.

"What did you speak at home? ... I'll tell you: Macedonian"
(It's in Greek and needs translating)

http://1-2.gr/2019/06/03/ta-moygga-tragoydia-vrhkan-th-fonh-toys/

Lovely music, though i'm struggle most parts understanding this dialect. SOM can you help? are there different egejski dialects? if so, i'm usually good with Lerinsko but this is a bit harder for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=162&v=OC9X4o3iSLc

[Karposh]

Keeping ethnic Macedonian music traditions alive in Greece. Hrisoula Papadopoulou and Chepkalo Projects.

Great find Bill. They are absolutely phenomenal. I checked out some of their other songs and, this one in particular, caught me by surprise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqogBKEyMvI

I have never heard this song before. It's really heartwarming to see this group undertaking such an important labour of love in preserving these cultural gems from Aegean Macedonia before they are forgotten forever.

[Karposh]

Here's another one especially for you Bill and for all those who appreciate the unique sounds and melodies of Aegean Macedonian music. This version is sung by the golden voice of that Bitolchanka, Aneta Micevska of Molika. She sings it in the original dialect that it was intended to be sung in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3StR22g_haM

[Bill77]

Great find Bill. They are absolutely phenomenal. I checked out some of their other songs and, this one in particular, caught me by surprise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqogBKEyMvI

I have never heard this song before. It's really heartwarming to see this group undertaking such an important labour of love in preserving these cultural gems from Aegean Macedonia before they are forgotten forever.

Thanks Karposh....... what beautiful sounds they produce. I've never heard them before and i'm really enjoying them.

Its amazing sound what old classical Macedonian instruments make compared to modern bands and there electric synthesizers, guitars and drum kits. I think the genre is called Chalgija old urban traditional folk music. i don't care if the instruments have been adopted from the Ottomans..... i'll have the sounds of the simple Tambourine, tarabuka, Lute, violin anytime, it just takes me places back in time.

PS: the video you posted suggests the music is from the region of Voden, so it answers my original question

[Tomche Makedonche]

I think the genre is called Chalgija old urban traditional folk music. i don't care if the instruments have been adopted from the Ottomans..... i'll have the sounds of the simple Tambourine, tarabuka, Lute, violin anytime, it just takes me places back in time.

One name - Tale Ognenovski

Also I agree, it was a beautiful find, for some reason I have found the violin tends to make a more prominent appearance in Aegean songs, particularly ones originating from around Voden, brings out a uniqueness that I really tend to enjoy

[Carlin]

I remember seeing Biser Balkanski sun in Vlach a few years back on youtube.

Is that still on youtube by any chance?

Toshe Proeski, Pero Pare and Filomeni Maja sing Sh-ira noapte, sh-avea luna (One Moonlit Night). Toshe was 12 in this video.

Youtube URL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=285&v=WZjKJll8t4s

One Moonlit Night
I heard the voice of an Arman (Vlach) woman
weeping on her wedding crown

The poor woman cried and screamed
and tore the hair from her head
she spoke to her young son

“Son if you grow up
do not forget your good parents
and to the Greci without mercy
pay them back twice”

“Mother, if l grow up
I will not forget my good parents
and to the Greci without mercy
I will pay them back ten times”

URL - page 369:

http://vuir.vu.edu.au/423/3/Anastasovski%2C%20Nick%20PhD.pdf

[Risto the Great]

I simply assumed anything sounding like "Arman" was related to the Armenians. Is it really Vlach?

[Carlin]

I simply assumed anything sounding like "Arman" was related to the Armenians. Is it really Vlach?

That's correct, the Vlachs themselves use the endonym "Armăn" (plural "Armăni") etymologically from "Romanus" ("Roman"). A while back I also posted a testimony/discovery where it is mentioned how the inhabitants of medieval "Byzantine Greece" (at a time when Byzantium was simply called Romania) colloquially referred to their country as Armania.

The term "Vlach" is an exonym (the slavicized Meglen Vlachs appear to be a 'recent' exception, as they call themselves Vlasi).

For example, the Polish people even today refer to Italians as "Vlachs"; i.e. Italy is Republika Włoska and Italians are Włochy.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%82ochy