Odigüzäl

The Music of the Mountain Jews
The Music of the Mountain Jews
Odigüzäl

Momishkä Mamrieva


Odigüzäl ia an example of Ovosunachi (epic song). The present fragment is a section from the epos Odigüzäl from the Azeri tradition which was performed by the Jewish theater at Derbent. In the excpert heard on this recording, Odigüzäl, alone in the woods, asks for God's assistance as he waits for his brother who went to ask for food and has failed to return.

 

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