This is the latest by Mizar called Belo More. Listen to this Haunting but great vocals. It suits some of these never before seen sad images of Macedonian refugees in Greece.
Not only distinctively and uniquely Macedonian, but also very ancient.
Serious musicologists ... deal almost exclusively with Macedonian folk music. That fact is not surprising in view of the interest aroused by Macedonian folk music among musicologists, owing to its originality and characteristic place in folk music of the Balkan region.
The indigenous folk music of Macedonia, a product of ... various influences of the ethnic groups which had inhabited the Balkans before the arrival of the Slavs - offers excellent opportunities for the scholarly investigation ... "
Dragoslav, Ortakov., "Approaches to the Study of Macedonian Musical History" in International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Vol. 6, No.2 (Dec, 1975), pp. 307-317
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