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Los Bilbilicos

from Cantadora by Kristine Barrett

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Los Bilbilicos (The Nightingales), traditional, Ladino / Sephardic folk song. The Sephardic songs on this album come from the Sephardic Jewish tradition. Originally from the Iberian Peninsula (modern day Spain and Portugal), the Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain in the 15th century where the exiled population dispersed across North Africa, Anatolia, the Levant, Southern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and beyond. Judeo-Spanish, or Ladino, is a language originating from the Iberian Peninsula. After the mass expulsion, the language spread across the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, the Middle East, Turkey, and North Africa. It is a derivative of Old Spanish with elements from various languages of the Iberian Peninsula: Old Aragonese, Astur-Leonese, Old Catalan, Galician-Portuguese, and Mozarabic, as well as Ottoman Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. I learned this particular song from various recordings: Judy Frankel, Consuelo Luz Arostegui, Trio Sefardi, among many others.

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Los bilbilicos cantan
con sospiros de amor
mi neshama, mi ventura
estan en tu poder.

La rosa enflorese
en el mes de mai
mi neshama s’escurese,
sufriendo del amor.

Mas presto ven palomba,
mas presto ven con mi,
mas presto ven querida,
corre y salvame

“The nightingales sing with sighs of love, my spirit, my fortune, they’re in your power. The rose blooms in the month of May; my soul darkens, suffering from love. Come faster my dove, come quickly with me, come quickly my beloved, run and save me.”

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from Cantadora, released November 2, 2019

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Kristine Barrett San Francisco, California

Kristine Barrett is an artist, composer, and vocalist specializing in experimental traditional music and ritual song from Eastern Europe, the Republic of Georgia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Ireland, and the Americas.

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