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Shemomeqara Qivchaghi (I Met Qivchaghi On My Way, Kartl​-​K'akheti)

from Silver Sanctuary by Zedashe

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Sourced from a fragment of a song Ketevan found sung by an elderly man in Kartli. Doing research on the source of the lyrics she rebuilt the song including the full poem based on an assumption of how it would have continued.

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The Cuman-Kipchaks were a nomadic Turkic people living in the North Caucasus and along the Volga river. David the Builder, a 12th C. King of Georgia, brought 40,000 of these pagan peoples to Georgia to replenish the ranks of the army in exchange for land rights in 1118. After the Mongol raids most Cumans resettled in Hungary and Anatolia. This song relates a story of a young couple visiting their relatives, along the way they ran into a Cuman warrior, he asked for bread the Georgian man gave him some, he asked for wine, he was offered some, he asked for his wife, and the Georgian refused, and a fight broke out. The Cuman was moving as fast as lightning but the Georgian protecting his wife cut him in half.

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from Silver Sanctuary, released August 7, 2020
Soloist: Aleko Matiashvili on voice and Panduri, a plucked three string fretted lute-llike instrument from Eastern Georgian.

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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

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