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Albanian popular music often incorporates the country's folk music. Albanian folk music includes monophonic and polyphonic styles, responses, choral, instrumental and vocal music. Each region has a unique musical tradition that reflects its history, language and culture. [1]
Iso-Polyphony (Albanian: Iso-polifonia) is a traditional part of Albanian folk music and, as such, is included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. [1] Albanian Iso-Polyphony is considered to have its roots in the many-voiced vajtim, the southern Albanian traditional lamentation of the dead.
The polyphonic song of Epirus is a form of traditional folk polyphony practiced among Albanians, Aromanians, Greeks and ethnic Macedonians in southern Albania and northwestern Greece. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The polyphonic song of Epirus is not to be confused with other varieties of polyphonic singing, such as the yodeling songs of the region of Muotatal ...
Tallava or Talava is a music genre originating from Albanian-speaking Roma communities in Kosovo as well as in North Macedonia, with a presence in Albania. [1] [2] [3] Having originated in the Roma community in Kosovo in the 1990s, it evokes regional Balkan musical styles (e.g., microtones, vocal glissando, and certain musical instruments) and has become popular in Albania and North Macedonia. [4]
Kaba is an Albanian music genre, a folk instrumental expression of the Albanian Iso-Polyphony, which is recognized as cultural heritage by UNESCO. [1] [2]The Albanian kaba is performed with a soloist playing the clarinet or violin, accompanied by the instrumental ensembles called saze playing lla(h)uta (saz or lute) and other instruments.
Ethem was born in Cakran, Fier, to an Albanian family from Përmet (southern Albania), a region from which many important performers of southern Albanain folk music emerged. Although his family was originally engaged in milling, Ethem's father also performed folk music, and with him, young Ethem started playing firstly the mandolin and then the ...
The song has been described as a rhythmic Albanian-language folk-electronic spiritual and dramatic ballad backed by traditional Albanian instruments consisting of a fyell, lahuta and tupan. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Lyrically, "Ktheju tokës" explores the theme of migration particularly that of the Albanian people during the 1990s as a part of the ...
An accompanying music video for "Sekret" premiered on the official YouTube channel of the Eurovision Song Contest on 4 March 2022. [10] [11] Filmed in Gjirokastër and along the Vjosë River at Byllis and Tepelenë, the video is a tribute to the Albanian mythological snake of Bistricë.