Posted by Mike Gordon on Jun 29, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music |
A Bosnian sevdalinka song about the tribulations of young love. We play this for listening, not for a particular dance, though the first video shows a line of women doing a simple kolo.
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Posted by Mike Gordon on Jun 26, 2018 in 4/4, Balkan Sheet Music |
A Bosnian sevdalinka song about marrying a girl on her 16th birthday. We’ve played this as a tango and, with a maqsum beat, as a jeni jol.
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Posted by Mike Gordon on Jun 22, 2018 in 7/8, Balkan Sheet Music |
Fatal Attraction in Bulgaria: The other woman refuses to take no for an answer. We play this as a lesnoto dance song in 7/8.
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Posted by Mike Gordon on Jun 19, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music |
A hot dance instrumental written by Yuri Yunakov, a Bulgarian Rom virtuoso on alto sax and clarinet, who used to play with Ivo Papazov’s legendary Bulgarian wedding band and now lives in New York. We play it as a cocek.
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Posted by Mike Gordon on Jun 15, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music |
A love song performed by the Albanian Rom band Kurbeti. We play it as a cocek.
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