Off topic - Kafana ( For Ex Yu members )

[NikeBG]

Sounds familiar to me as well, actually, though I can't really remember our version... Is it a Gypsy song?

[Tureuki]

I don't know, some of the Balkanian immigrants playing it in their weddings.

Btw there is a tv series project for 1912 war but you guys would probably not like it since its showing the events from muslim side

Here's a little trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-N621j59k

[Son of Serbia]

[DobroVece]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=...&v=aiSlWB_y3Po
This dude was the first who sang it here, but it originates from India. So in a way it is gypsy song.

[The Noble Lord]

Evertyhing has two sides, while you guys celebrating it, Balkanian immigrants here memorializing it with sad folk songs and poetries

Btw is that familiar to you guys ? I heard it was common around Bosnia&Serbia or only Bosnia I'm not sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maxvgp3yJJc

Of course everything has two sides, that's why everything must be studied and analyzed so that way you can try to establish the truth!! Balkan immigrants fled to today's Turkey because they were pushed out by the different Balkan armies, however large number of them stayed there and is still living there in peace and prosperity!

As for the song, I heard it maybe 15 years ago. Serbian version of the song sings about a guy who asks his friend Ramo to hear his pleas for help, pleas in regards to some girl who broke his heart. That's what I can remember from the song. What does the Turkish version says??

[NikeBG]

Aha! I asked my father about that song and it seems we don't have our own version - the Serbian ones were quite popular enough here. And it was believed that it's about the elephant from this superhit Indian movie, which was called Ramo. Interesting, almost reminded me of this documentary movie...

[Tureuki]

The Noble Lord

Here is your reward for not completing your job(as said in another thread)


In Turkish version Ramo is the lover I guess.

[The Noble Lord]

The Noble Lord

Here is your reward for not completing your job(as said in another thread)

, that's great. Alright, we don't need to bring another thread to this one!

In Turkish version Ramo is the lover I guess.

Well you speak Turkish so can understand the song. Serbian version speaks about two friends who lost one another and one is calling another to come back to him so they can be friends again and break hearts of the girls again and have their hearts broken by the girls.

This is the Serbian version played and video is obviously taken from D.C. but it's so funny to watch:

[Tureuki]

In Turkish version, singer is a girl and Ramo is her lover, she's saying don't love others, be a pigeon and sit on my window, wind of sorrow break us etc.

[NikeBG]

Haha, I saw the "U2 version" several days ago (when I asked my father and he got nostalgic and started YouTubing for it and other Serbian songs) - was quite fun indeed!

[Son of Serbia]

Recommended. Some Balkan sound.

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A Serbian group, called Vrelo (The Source). They mix folk sound with modern instruments and beats. This is their demo, and it happens to be an interpretation of an old folk song from the area of Kragujevac in Central Serbia. The refrain (below the rest of the lyrics that follow) was added to the text by the group (and IMO they could've sung those 3 verses differently, they somehow add a flaw to an otherwise fine piece).

Lyrics would be:

Why does turbid Morava* flow
In this long deepening night
Woe
In the moonlight
Woe

Two young sisters swimming did go
In this long deepening night
Woe
In the moonlight
Woe
Woe

Refrain x2
Woe (chanting)

Magdalena and Jelena**
In this long deepening night
Woe
In the moonlight
Woe

Evade death did Magdalena
In this long deepening night
Woe
In the moonlight
Woe
Woe

Refrain x2
Woe (chanting)

Woe (chanting)

In the river drowned Jelena
In this long deepening night
Woe
In the moonlight
Woe
Woe

Refrain:
I've been telling all along
Listen to no one - they're wrong
Morava is deep and strong
Woe

*A river in Serbia (just in case )
**The Serbian variants of the names Magdalene and Helen

I can certainly imagine that the two girls the song tells about had actually lived, and that it evokes a grief long bygone.

[NikeBG]

Very interesting!
Otherwise, I'm currently listening to Lot Lorien and here's a song of theirs with Latif Bolat, called "A ballad for the lost / Humma kusu" (greeting for Tureuki ). And I've posted some BG folk here. Though, of course, my favourite modernistic, Balkanistic Bulgarian music still remains Balkandji's Krali Marko (though they're usually not so unserious).
Btw, would this qualify as turbo-folk? Mmm, makes me hungry...

[Son of Serbia]

That's an interesting music mixture there. I remember you posting some of those songs in previous discussions, and also stressing your fondness for Balkandji. As for Shkembeto, I'd say it definitely could be judged as turbo-folk - that's the sound of it.

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Another one, also magnificent, at least to myself. Mystic touch to it, as well.

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And one more.

[Ban]

Pričal iko naški

[Son of Serbia]

Imaš brate link u prvom post-u ovog thread-a. Ovaj:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=535351
Tamo svrati. Malo je pusto u poslednje vreme, svi se izgleda razbežali po nekim morima i sličnim destinacijama, al' tu se okupljamo mi koji zborimo, kako ti reče, "naški". Dobrodoš'o.

Sorry, guys, I've just directed this fellow to our "Tavern". It's an off-topic thread, so no big deal anyway, eh?

[Son of Serbia]

[Son of Serbia]

Raize da roof!