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Singer Hasmik Harutyunyan is renowned for her mellifluous renditions of the Armenian lullaby, one of the oldest and richest genres in Armenian music. Here she sings acapella and accompanied by instrumentalists from Armenia's Shoghaken Ensemble. Their quiet, haunting interpretations of lullabies from historical villages across the Armenian plateau offer a mesmerizing glimpse at a lost world.
Harutyunyan consciously preserves the differences in regional dialect, style and musical modes that make the Armenian lullaby such a rich genre. Well known in Armenia for her lullaby performances (her renditions of Kessabi Oror, track 9, and Nani Bala, track 11, are often broadcast on Armenian National Radio), she learned the lullabies on this recording from old women who had emigrated from Anatolia to eastern Armenia before or during the Armenian massacres of 1915, as well as from their descendants and old song collections.
Includes extensive notes on the cultural history of the Armenian lullaby, lullaby translations and historical photos.
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