The Princes of Lazica - Epic Byzantine Music
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Music from the traditional repertoire of Laz music, with improvisations by Dimitrios Dallas who recorded the Pontic lyra and tulum bagpipe, be sure to check out his awesome work here / @dimitrios_dallas . The Epic Byzantine Music series is a musical project where I explore various sounds from the ethnomusicological ecosystem of modern traditional music, using sounds from modern folk traditions as they are today as a framing device for themes pertaining to the history of the Eastern Roman Empire. In this case, I wanted to tackle the theme of the Trapezuntine Empire, a rump state of the Eastern Roman Empire after its temporary collapse following the sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders. The Empire of Trebizond was formed in the Northeastern extremities of Anatolia, close to Georgia, and a massive portion of its population consisted of the Laz people, a Kartvelian people closely related to Georgians who inhabit the region known as Lazica. For this reason, the rulers of the empire were titled Princes of the Lazes. Therefore, this song consists of a mixture of Pontic Greek and Laz traditions.
Laz music of Anatolia and Pontic Greek music overlap significantly, being essentially the same broad musical tradition and using the same fundamental features. The Black Sea fiddle is a primary instrument of the region, as is the tulum bagpipe, with the primary drum being the davul, all of them used here. I also employed a Georgian pandouri, an instrument commonly featured nowadays in Laz music, even of Anatolia, as a nod to their common kinship with Georgians.
Much of the music in this region is primarily dance music, and often structured in asymmetrical rythmic structures, such as a 5 based beat in this song. I really wanted to feature the Laz language in this composition, so I simply featured a Laz love song called Furt'unaşen Gebulur that me and my mom sang in the Laz language, and my colleague Dimitrios Dallas played expertly using the Black Sea kementze and the bagpipe, adding to it his own improvisations in the style of Pontic Greek music. A form of drone harmony is also found in Laz music, something shared with their Georgian neighbours, switching from tonic to subtonic. All in all, this composition shows an example of Pontic Greek and Laz music with Georgian elements added in, showing the fascinating musical landscape of Lazica at the junction of the Greek, Anatolian, and Kartvelian worlds.
Lyrics in Greek and Laz:
Έλα! Γιε της Ρώμης,
Η Ρωμανία ζει,
Ζει στα μαύρα κύματα,
Στα τραγούδια των Λαζών.
Furtunaşen gevulur
Nena momçi mevulur
E bozo skani şeni
P'anda çveri govulur
Rak'anis mot geladgir
Limçişi xvala xvala
Moxti mendegiyona
Mulurna çkimi k'ala
Var megocan e biç'i
Var malen skani k'ala
Ubas mu mologidzin
Muç'o mzuğaş kvanç'ala
Mtel dadepe hak renan
Çkva heşo var barbala
Ma şkurina va miğun
Met'k'oçi bincubala
English translation:
Come! Son of Rome,
Rhomania lives,
She lives in the black waves,
In the songs of the Lazes.
I'm coming down from the storm stream.
Give me a sound, I'm coming.
Girl for you,
I'm always walking around with burns.
Why are you standing on the hill?
In the evening, all alone.
Come let me take you,
If you come with me.
I don't trust you, young man.
I can't come with you.
What are you hiding in your bosom?
It looks like a stone from the sea.
All my sisters are here,
Don't be so stupid.
I have no fear,
Let me shut you up.
Music from the traditional repertoire of Laz music, with improvisations by Dimitrios Dallas who recorded the Pontic lyra and tulum bagpipe, be sure to check out his awesome work here th-cam.com/channels/3SwRGRooZwTLssMrweWeAQ.html. Please note this isn't reconstructed historical music, it's modern folk music. The Epic Byzantine Music series is a musical project where I explore various sounds from the ethnomusicological ecosystem of modern traditional music, using sounds from modern folk traditions as they are today as a framing device for themes pertaining to the history of the Eastern Roman Empire. In this case, I wanted to tackle the theme of the Trapezuntine Empire, a rump state of the Eastern Roman Empire after its temporary collapse following the sack of Constantinople by the Latin Crusaders. The Empire of Trebizond was formed in the Northeastern extremities of Anatolia, close to Georgia, and a massive portion of its population consisted of the Laz people, a Kartvelian people closely related to Georgians who inhabit the region known as Lazica. For this reason, the rulers of the empire were titled Princes of the Lazes. Therefore, this song consists of a mixture of Pontic Greek and Laz traditions.
Laz music of Anatolia and Pontic Greek music overlap significantly, being essentially the same broad musical tradition and using the same fundamental features. The Black Sea fiddle is a primary instrument of the region, as is the tulum bagpipe, with the primary drum being the davul, all of them used here. I also employed a Georgian pandouri, an instrument commonly featured nowadays in Laz music, even of Anatolia, as a nod to their common kinship with Georgians.
Much of the music in this region is primarily dance music, and often structured in asymmetrical rythmic structures, such as a 5 based beat in this song. I really wanted to feature the Laz language in this composition, so I simply featured a Laz love song called Furt'unaşen Gebulur that me and my mom sang in the Laz language, and my colleague Dimitrios Dallas played expertly using the Black Sea kementze and the bagpipe, adding to it his own improvisations in the style of Pontic Greek music. A form of drone harmony is also found in Laz music, something shared with their Georgian neighbours, switching from tonic to subtonic. All in all, this composition shows an example of Pontic Greek and Laz music with Georgian elements added in, showing the fascinating musical landscape of Lazica at the junction of the Greek, Anatolian, and Kartvelian worlds.
Lyrics in Greek and Laz:
Έλα! Γιε της Ρώμης,
Η Ρωμανία ζει,
Ζει στα μαύρα κύματα,
Στα τραγούδια των Λαζών.
Furtunaşen gevulur
Nena momçi mevulur
E bozo skani şeni
P'anda çveri govulur
Rak'anis mot geladgir
Limçişi xvala xvala
Moxti mendegiyona
Mulurna çkimi k'ala
Var megocan e biç'i
Var malen skani k'ala
Ubas mu mologidzin
Muç'o mzuğaş kvanç'ala
Mtel dadepe hak renan
Çkva heşo var barbala
Ma şkurina va miğun
Met'k'oçi bincubala
English translation:
Come! Son of Rome,
Rhomania lives,
She lives in the black waves,
In the songs of the Lazes.
I'm coming down from the storm stream.
Give me a sound, I'm coming.
Girl for you,
I'm always walking around with burns.
Why are you standing on the hill?
In the evening, all alone.
Come let me take you,
If you come with me.
I don't trust you, young man.
I can't come with you.
What are you hiding in your bosom?
It looks like a stone from the sea.
All my sisters are here,
Don't be so stupid.
I have no fear,
Let me shut you up.
you wrote that up real quick
Third! Yey, love from hungary!🇭🇺
*Secret deal unlocked for Farya*: If you make a music about hungary whatever period in History I will do my best to learn how to do a Blackflip
Love from Bharat 🇮🇳 🙏. @@theresponsibleuser90
Those are some uuuuhhh ominous lyrics. Unless I’m misunderstanding them?
@@Glitterblossom oh yes! 😅 For a "love song" it's more like Nick Cave's album of Murder Ballads? Along the lines of "Henry Lee" mostly, I would say - but I find this one better and more poetic, as the ominous thing is not said straight. Gotta love Farya, he is such a great musician and always finds very interesting and often funny songs...the lyrics of old times weren't as "nice" as I had thought earlier, there's so many hilarious rebel/rebellish songs, and some love songs are so deep, that I get tears into my eyes... It is truly amazing gift what Farya shares with us. 🤗🙏🐾❣️ Much love and joy to your week! 🙂🌞🌛✨💛
As a Laz from Turkey, I'm so glad to hear Laz in your song. Lazs took important role in that area.
This song is more fire than the ships caught in the Greek fire
Im a simple man...I see epic byzantine music, I click...........
Your pfp clearly says you're truly a man!
It's Man!
You're MAN!!
i think you forgot to add dots
ok incel
I'm a simple Belisarius, I see a song about me and my friends, I click.
Gladius romae sum belisarius ⚔️!
You could say that
@@FlaviusBelisarius500My friend, as a Turk, I say that Belisarius' campaigns and wars are very important.
His expeditions against the Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Vandals are amazing!
Montes lazicae cum sanguis sassanidarum rubri factae sunt
@@FlaviusBelisarius500 Memento,Totila,romam antiquam esse...
Just came back from visiting my grandfather's grave after he had passed away a few months back. Things are going better than before but the melancholy is still there, so this Lazic song DEFINITELY helps!
How does bro pump out bangers every 2-3 days, bros channel is blessed
I would say he and channel are blessed by God, but it looks like he's also blessed by every deity known to mankind
@@Yoyërcompany especially Ahura Mazda :)
@@BigChimpEnergy Ahura Mazda indeed, Farya is literally spreading the good thoughts, words and deeds
Long live the Pontic Music ! I Appreciate the effort you put in this music! Salute From 🇬🇷
I sent this masterpiece to my Turkish Laz bro, now he declared independence :D
As a Turk from black sea/pontic region of Turkey, I loved this song. Great work as always, thank you Farya😊
Amazing work as usual , Farya!..It is extraordinary to hear the language of my people together with Greek..Such a beautiful harmony of the music and the words..One can truly feel the history through your songs..
Greetings from a Laz from Anatolia..
As a Lazi from Vitze thank you guys for introducing my nananena Lazuri. Dido kai didi kai cumalepe.
Lazi Vitze ❤Lazi Artaşeni
Xelakaoba Cuma Lazi Ma Skidup Xopa 💙💚👋👋👋👋
Dimitrios blasting greek fire as always 🔥
Thank you! 🙏
Once again thank you for the great honor of playing on your beautiful track!
Always an honour to feature your incredible talent Dimitrie!
🇮🇷 💪🏼 🇬🇷
Respect from lazica ❤️🇬🇪
Lazica is 🇹🇷
@@moony7144 sure, buddy. about as turkish as cyprus and van.
@@moony7144At the moment, Lazika is under the control of Turkey, but almost the entire history of Lazika was considered part of Georgia
@@Простопабг-д1ю90% of Lazica/Egrisi kingdom is modern western territoy of Georgia.
@@moony7144 lazica was not only modern day lazes, mingrelians are also old lazes! laz is roman name for mingrelians and chans , lazes in turkey are chanes
Your music always lifts me up from my sadness and dark thoughts
Same... it's been great help after I lost my beloved cat, a true soul companion, this year...and both me and the younger cat got very ill after that...Finding Farya has been a true blessing!!!! 🤗 All the best and much joy to you! 🙂🙏❣️🌞🌛✨🎼🎵🎶💛
@@Esti-xg7tg all the best to you too friend. I am sorry for you cat
Ime Pontia🦅😍 incredibly beautiful😍 ti na po👏🏽👏🏽
Awesome fusion of Greek and Caucasian motifs! Awesome lyrics, especially in the beginning. Awesome Pontic lyre and Georgian lute and overall musicianship and rhythm. Great vocals and harmonization!!
I'm from black sea (giresun/kerasous)! thank you for shining light on our culture(s) I've been looking forward to a black sea inspired track from you🙏❤️I'm going home in a few days and this piece really made me feel homesick lol
As someone from Trabzon this song is 🔥🗣
Salute from Trebizond! Salute from Pontus!
Pontic music my beloved
All hail the Komnenos!🌿🦅
Me: *is sad because I've listened to this genious's every music already*
Farya: *Princess of Lazica - Epic Byzantine Song*
Sadness: *goes away*
great work.... Farya!!!
please make Epic Music Mehmed II, Sulaiman the Magnificient, Baldwin IV, and Richard the Lionheart
Thank you for again bringing back pieces of History to our days. ❤
გმადლობ ფარია 🖤🇬🇪
The Laz? Lazica as the Romans referred to Western Georgia? How happy I am to see you cover this and having made also Tornike the Georgian. Thank you.
42 seconds is crazy
Thx you bro for respecting our culture. Laz culture is disappearing now. Many peoples settled there Greeks, Armenians, Turcomans. But Lazes are aboriginal people of the region and thats their culture. Though there is obviously Greek influence. Greek culture is superstrate, Laz is substrate. Armenians and Turcomans just adopted that mixed culture.
Skudas Lazepe Skudas Pontus Skudas Sakartvelo
Was just finishing to listen to Gandagana when this dropped. I am loving that, as time goes on, you are increasingly delving into the syncretisms available in ethnomusicology, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this piece. At this point you ought to be hired for an Age of Empires expansion or Paradox game, ¡buena suerte y arriba siempre, Farya!
Dude I was about to go listen to Gandagana while I saw this
and I'm Greek lol
Excellent! Beautiful! The magnificent Pontic music has a very deep potential for your future compositions!
Amazing work! Please do a song about Empress Zenobia someday! I think if anyone could tackle it, it‘d be you
And I would also love a Coptic Christian song
Alexios Komnenos, killer of the Pechenegs, Selkuks of Rum and the Frank polemarch deserves a song by the great Farya!!!!!!
Открыл, послушал, лайкнул❤
What a baller track. I usually listen to your music to relax but today my TH-cam algorithm made an executive decision and put this on while I was squatting a heavy load at the gym. Felt like a beast ⚡️
So good. Missed these bangers!
Lazica or Egrisi refers to the old western Georgian kingdom. This music is not only about Laz people, it's also about Mingrelians and about western Georgians in General. Thanks Farya!
the crazy Georgians have gone crazy again. The kingdom of Lazica speaks a language of Zan origin. Georgians were living in the Iberian kingdom at that time. When Iberia was invaded by the Sassanids, the Georgians took refuge in the west, we are not the same.
And Mingrelians and Lazs They are Speak Same Language. But Georgians different
@@Bizans_Torunu Zan is a Kartvelian Language. Lazica was the place of the kingdom of Abkhazia, Imereti and all of these were Georgian kingdoms. And just because they speak different languages doesn't mean they aren't Kartvelians. Also no, Mingrelians and Laz don't speak the same language anymore, those languages diverged. Ask any Mingrelian and they identify as a Georgian. The Laz people in Georgia and some even in Hopa in Turkey identify as Georgian. So no, we haven't gone crazy, we know our history. Colchis and Diaochi were Kartvelian kingdoms.
@@androtchitchinadze3450 Zan Languages and Kartvelian were separated thousands of years ago. According to you Finnish and Mongolian are the same, after all they come from the same language family lol, before Lazika and before Georgians there was Colchis and they were not Georgians because they did not speak Georgian I am ready for any kind of discussion, Also Megrel and Laz are a dialect of Zan languages.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zan_languages
Nice mixing between greek language and anatolia keep up!
Close your eyes,
become a time traveler,
beautiful.
This whole week I am in kemenche/bagpipe mode... this fits perfectly. B-)
Thanks for such a great piece, Farya 😊 ❤
POV:Georgian and Greek when they have children:
based
I know there's very little chance of you reading that, but I wanted to thank you for composing such masterpieces. I probably found my favourite type of music thanks to you :) Your work is very underrated, and it really does fit in Byzantine theme. Again, keep up the godlike work.
The orientalist (or occidentalist) version of this would be titled "the Lords of Scotland" and have the polish eagle standard in the background 😂
As a laz from Türkiye i really like this song
thank you guys 🇬🇪❤🤝🏻✌🏻
You're a banger machine, farya
Another Trabizondic classic, Komneno bros
Like always , thank you so much for this incredible song that inspires me , greetings from Romania
I can't wait for you a song about Cyprus
farya your byzantine/roman and iranian songs are the best, your music is the best i’ve heard in my entire life! i would like to ask about making a symphony or a song about shapur II❤
Thank you Farya
Love laz brothers and sisters ❤🇬🇪
Lazica old Georgia 🔥❤
I would love to see your performance of the Pole-Lithuanian song "Oi Sermuksnio" would be a cool add on to the epic Slavic collection.
Hoo Mskva Lazica 💚💙
mskva birafa ren :))
Çkin şkurna var gviğun 💪
Muco rek ?
@@giorgikolxicolchian9581 var Xopuri Skudas Mskvaa beautiful
The basilius of music 💐
This channel is 50% Greek 50% Georgian content 🗿
You made us iranian so proud ❤
Greetings from the third Rome
Honey, bring out the fine china, Farya just dropped another Byzantine banger!
Finally my requests has been answered ! damet garmmmm
Ez nagyon jó lett. Gratulálok.
Pontic Greek Classic
"Babe wake up"
Greetings From Indonesia Farya 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
Cool
The golden fleece is back! 🐑
I discovered you with Belisarius, I love your music
Good song.
Farya would be one of those men that each court and courtier would come to see with great astonishment.
Listening to this while embarking on a great quest
(I’m walking to the store across the street to buy popcorn for my sick girlfriend)
ნაკევა რი ლაზი ვარ გენაცვალეტ კარტველბო ❤❤
Υπέροχο ο ρυθμός η μουσική τα όργανα επιλογής αλλά τι τουρκοαλαμπουρνέζικα είναι αυτά τα vocals?
el.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Λαζοί
Lazeti will be united with Georgia eventually. Thank you Farya for this song.
Skidas Lazuri!❤
Bizim karadeniz bölgesinin müziklerinin benzeri bu
Karadeniz yöresi zaten laz yunanca karışımı
Müziğin teması Lazika dostum. Tabii ki Karadenizde duyduğun müziğin benzeri olacak.
@@hyperlinkblockedd zaten karadeniz yöresinde duyduğun şarkılarda bunlardan çıkıyor aynı şey o yüzden normall
Hey Farya, I've got a question that I've been stuck on for a while: what middle eastern makam is closest to the dorian mode, and which genre/musician is famous for using it? Thx in advance big man
Hüseyni in Turkish music is practically Dorian; the second interval is only 25 cents lower than the whole tone second, and the sixth is also about that much lower. It's basically as different from 12TET Dorian as Just Intonation Dorian is; they all sound pretty much the same; and you'll find it most often in Turkish Sufi music, like the İlahi "Severim Ben Seni" th-cam.com/video/6EWQ2G7fSFs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5ZpaBp-PMuQLXPfp
Note though that this is the Turkish version of Hüseyni. To my understanding, Arabs lower the second interval by a full half tone, which makes it identical to the first tetrachord of Bayat
@@faryafaraji Man, I am so grateful for this response, thank you so much; I'm a middle eastern platonist and kinda wanted to see what'd happen if I'd only listen to dorian mode like what Plato recommends, to see what'd happen; will report on the results
Super
Dear Mr. Faraji,
I'm an indie game developer working on a game about a journey through a parallel or simulated world. I have been following your work for the past two years and I am greatly inspired by your music.
I am writing to request permission to use some of your music in my game. Of course, I will give full credit to you for your work. Your music would add an incredible atmosphere to the game and I would be honored to include it.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Best regards,
Surena
Is Radio Faraji at this point.
This sounds extremly Cretan and i love it
Epirus, Trebizond down, Nicaea next?
Btw phenomrnal song, i really love the caucasian polyphony
Son of Iranshahr : We honor our rivals .
Son of western world : We make 300 movie for humilation of Iran(Persia)
Once again a terrific composition! Would you ever try a track for Gothia-Theodoro to fill out the list for Byzantine successor states?
Very similar to medieval musical, which considering the theme it fits i guess.
Though in general Caucasian music(especially circassian) tends to sound like that.
Im guessing you'll make a piece on Nicaea one day too to complete the 4th crusade trio.
Also definitely my new favourite piece from you.
🇬🇪✊🏻❤
FIRST 🎉❤
Day 3 of asking Farya for song about the Sassanin-Aksumite war with Persian and Ethiopian war music
Why don't you sell physical media? Vinyl, CD, Cassette would be neat since you have a bandcamp.
A nice song to play Trezibond in EU4 , I should do it soon x)
ვინც არ იცით, თავის დროზე ტრაპიზონის იმპერატორებს დაცინვით კონსტანტინოპოლის იმპერატორები ლაზების მეფეებს ეძახდნენ)) ან რომის იმპერატორად არ მოიხსენიებდნენ კომნენოსებს
GREAT Serbian cultur!
Glory to Lazeti
Are laz mostly Muslim now?
That’s so cool they have such a rich history
🏴☪️🏴
lazes in turkey are 100% muslims
@@giorgikolxicolchian9581no we aren't all muslims.
@@giorgikolxicolchian9581no i am not muslim 😂
I noticed that you don't have the "releases" tab on your channel, could be that yt doesn't see your channel as a musical one?
It may be worth looking into.
Please add lyrics in captions 🙏❤
nice