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)
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)