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The Golden Loom

Μαλαματένιος αργαλειός
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Μαλαματένιος αργαλειός
Μαλαμετένιος αργαλειός και λιβαντένιο1 χτένι
Κι έναν κορμί, κι αμάν, αμάν, αγγελικό κάθεται και υφαίνει
Πραματευτής, κι αμάν, αμάν, επέρασε στον μαύρον καβαλάρης
Κοντοκρατεί, κι αμάν, αμάν, τον μαύρο του και την καλημεράει
«Καλή μέρα, κι αμάν, αμάν, σου κόρη μου», σου λυγερή»,
«Καλώς τον ξένο π’ ήρθε»
«Κόρη πώς δεν, κι αμάν, αμάν, παντρεύεσαι να πάρεις παλικάρι;»
«Έχω άντρα, κι αμάν, αμάν, στην ξενιτιά»…
1λιβαντένιο: από ελεφαντοστούν
Information
- Region: Cappadocia / Konya
- Area: Sinasos
- Categories: Fable Song (Ballad)
- Rhythm: 4 beats
- Dance style: Local dance
- Short Description: Spouses recognized on the emigrant's return
- Duration: 02:55
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou
- Violin: Yiorgos Marinakis
- Kanun: Panos Dimitrakopoulos
- Constantinopolitan lute: Socrates Sinopoulos
- Oud: Kyriakos Tapakis
- Goblet drum: Manousos Klapakis
- Zil bells: Katerina Papadopoulou
- Spoons: Socrates Sinopoulos
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Notes
This song is about a long lost traveller who returns to his village where nobody recognizes him. He meets his wife and tells her who he is. But she believes him only when he is able to answer successfully a last question concerning a hidden part of her body.
Time signature: 4/4
Mode: Diatonic C with cadence on E. The range is that of a major sixth (C-A), with the occasional addition of the lower G.
Recording information
Studio recording, 2001. Based on the original recording of 1930 by Melpo Merlier, founder of the “Music Folklore Archive” of the “Centre for Asia Minor Studies”.
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