Porembela - Od Lubartowa - June 2019

"Od Lubartowa", June 2019, is our first version (surely won't be our last) of this Polish melody. Please let us know what you think of it: rate, comment, share...
"Od Lubartowa" is Porembela's arrangement of a tune collected in the 1800s by the famous Polish ethnographer Oskar Kolberg.
The song was collected in the area of Lubartów (en.wikipedia.o..., a town just 30Km north of Lublin, an area where Michał originally comes from. Up until the Second World War, Lubartów was a cultural melting pot, with over fifty percent of the town's population being Jews. In fact the town's original Polish name, which was Lewartów (pronounced [lɛ'vartuf]) until 1744 when it was changed to Lubartów, is still retained to this day on the yiddish language (albeit pronounced differently ['lɛvatof]).
The melody certainly tells us about the mixture of cultures that Lubartów once was. It is based on a myxolidian scale, but flattens its third degree on its way down. The melody thus sounds happy and hopeful on its way up, then sad and dramatic on its way down. As if somehow the melody had foreshadowed the future of its surroundings, Lubartów's seemingly bright future product of the exchange of cultures and ideas was shattered in 1941, when under a Nazi Germany occupied Poland the Lubartów Ghetto (en.wikipedia.o...) was created and most the Jewish population murdered.
Michał added a third part to the original melody and we've made our own harmonic and melodic arrangements around what was the original melody.
We hope you like it! :)
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Michał Poręba Accordion (+ voice)
Gerardo Albela Clarinet (+ gaita, percussion, voice)
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[@johngardner8948]

Could deffo be used in a platform/console game. Reminds me of the whimsy of Zelda and vintage Nintendo - Happy memories

[@mariuszlistewnik8453]

Wciągające, dzięki

[@howard-dyer]

Very nice sound, reminds me of Professor Layton on the Nintendo DS.

[@liamsharky5172]

Nice bit of instumental, reminds me of something in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

[@themismint]

Sounds great :)

[@shahjanmohammed4299]

Very nice .. reminds me of Traditional Qawwali Music

[@Porembela]

Thanks for your comment Shahjan! And for educating us! Checking Traditional Qawwali Music in 3, 2, 1.... ;)
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