Name: Maqruli
Duration: P00H02M13S
Description: Village of Shilda-O.Chijavadze’s variant (Kakheti, Feasting song)

Maqruli

from Intangible Pearls by Zedashe

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Village of Shilda-O.Chijavadze’s variant (Kakheti, Feasting song)

lyrics

We are coming with joy, we are bringing a red pheasant, I will throw you a handkerchief stitched with golden embroidery, were my heart will be wrapped inside, my heart is seared by its love for you, don’t forget me your poor lover.

(The Maqruli is a melody traditionally sung at weddings here the singers celebrate in the first line the newlyweds, then shift focus to their personal love and its pursuit)

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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