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DALI ZNAEŠ, POMINIŠ LI
Kürdîli Hicâzkar Rumeli Şarkı

The one version of this song I know is one of my favourite tracks by Dutch ensemble Čalgija, released on their album ‘Music from the Balkans and Anatolia No. 2’ (Pan Records, PAN 2007CD, 1991, track [3]). The aforementioned Wouter Swets (see notes on [2]), founder and leader of the ensemble, based his arrangement of the song on a transcription he found in the book ‘Jugoslovenski muzički folklore II’ (Prosveta, Beograd, 1953). Swets described how songs like this one were brought to Lazaropole (North Macedonia) from far away by returning emigrants, where the melodies they had learned abroad would become part of the folkloristic repertoire, gradually losing their original characteristics. This particular song is most likely based on or inspired by a şarkı (secular vocal form in Turkish art music) in makam Kürdîli Hicâzkar. He restored the seyir (melodic progression) of this makam accordingly, and added an aranağme (ritornello). I concur with Swets regarding the song’s roots, but thought the approximation of the presumed original could be taken one step further. I rearranged the song in usul aksak semâî (10/8), which fits the phrasing very well, and added a coda section. I am very happy that Čalgija’s original singer Roel Sluis (1950) agreed to participate in the recording. Thanks are also due to Goran Stalevski (pesna.org), for correcting the transcription, translation and transliteration of the lyrics.

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Dali znaeš pomniš li, aman aman
koga bevme malečki, aman?

Vo gul bavče sedevme, aman aman
pod gul crven trendafil, aman.

Trendafil ni kapeše, aman aman
na nas dvata pagaše, aman.

Nie dvata berevme, aman aman
liceto si mazevme, aman

(translation)
Do you remember
when we were young?

We sat in the rose garden
under a rosebush.

The rosebush dripped
on the both of us.

We caught the drops and
rubbed our faces with them.

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from Eur​ó​pe, released April 19, 2019
Traditional Macedonian
Introductory improvisation by Manolis Kanakakis

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