Category: Flamenco

Hafez and Estrella Morente

Hafez Ghazal 271 Don’t ask me how many complaints I have about her black hair For I became so undone because of her that its beyond telling   Let no one abandon heart and faith in hope of fidelity I did this.  Don’t ask me how sorry I am.   With one innocent drink that…

Rumi – I do not know myself

    What is to be done, O Muslims? for I do not know myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Magian, nor Muslim. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea; I am not of Nature’s quarry, nor of the heaven circling above….

Songs from Andalus

Fado: Casa de Fados (from Carlos Saura’s film Fados)   Lyrics (from the film’s subtitles): First singer: A lost friendship can never return It’s a forged firendship  That jokingly comes and goes It’s a forged friendship that jokingly comes and goes No one gives a thing If behind that gesture there is no value Only a…