Name: Kalo Kalta Mzeo
Duration: P00H02M30S
Description: Derived from G. Svanidze’s 1924 recording of Petre Petriashili (Kartli, Antiphonal)

Kalo Kalta Mzeo

from Intangible Pearls by Zedashe

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Derived from G. Svanidze’s 1924 recording of Petre Petriashili (Kartli, Antiphonal)

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Boy: Lady, sun-like lady, I have known you for ten months, on the eleventh, everything went dark, one minute became a day, lady, sun-like lady, bring light back to my day, don’t winterize our meeting, don’t make me a prisoner.

Girl: My sunlight, I am waiting for you everyday, torture has become more intensified; my day has turned to night

Boy: Lady, sun-like lady, I have known you for ten months, on the eleventh, everything went dark, one minute became a day

Girl : The sunlight enter, my day, my life, our fate was not to be together, our sun has darkened

Boy: Lady, sun-like lady, the sun has darkened, they can’t keep us apart, they have angered the sky, we will travel together to the otherworld, my life

(This is an old story of two lovers that were stoned to death, due to the adultery of the woman, there is still a pile of rocks marking the spot outside of Gori, in Karlti region called the Sunlike Lady’s Spot)

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from Intangible Pearls, released April 9, 2013

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Zedashe Sighnaghi, Georgia

Zedashe Ensemble is a vocal and dance group based in the eastern medieval fortress city of Sighnaghi, Caucasus Georgia. Directed by Ketevan Mindorashvili, the ensemble was founded in the mid-1990’s to sing polyphonic chants, unique to Georgia, that were largely lost during the Communist era. ... more