songs from nedelino: tradition of the rhodopes (2002)

another killer from the flawless inedit label. entrancing two-part antiphonal folk songs mostly performed by groups of women in a droning style, often accompanied by the native bagpipe.

from the liner notes: "two singers start the song, one singing the first part, the other the second, then another couple continues the song as an echo"

 the way the separate vocal parts move in this really visceral dissonant counterpoint to one another really gets me.

Stop crying, Mother, 

Stop looking for a cure, 

For me the remedy has already been found, 

It is the earth which is calling me.