Lullabies

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So recently I've been getting into Sephardic folk music (corny 'getting back to one's extremely distant roots you have no actual connection to' moment) and there are a couple of really haunting lullabies in the canon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpzkF3BkbbY

A La Nana

'A la nana a la buba / se durma la criatura / El Dio' grande que los guarde / a los ninyos de los males

'Lullaby baby / the child sleeps / May great God guard them / keep the children from evil.'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awzYCrLqUKM

Durme, Durme

'Durme, durme, querido hijico / durme sin ansia y dolor'

'Sleep, sleep, beloved son / sleep without fretting.'

What other lullabies are there? Does the genre still exist? Why do adults like them? ILXors with kids, do they work?

cardamon, Saturday, 6 July 2013 15:35 (twelve years ago)

Singing somebody to sleep is an amazing feeling (as is being sung to). Lullabies will always exist.

banjoboy, Monday, 8 July 2013 03:51 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAQn5Sk0O3g

A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 8 July 2013 06:51 (twelve years ago)

ten years pass...

Surprised this thread isn't longer.

Anyway, this

https://kevinfowley.bandcamp.com/album/feu-doux

seems charming (based on the one track you can play and a track that appeared on Elizabeth Alker's Unclassified the other night: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001znxn)

djh, Monday, 10 June 2024 19:39 (one year ago)


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