Songs of Muhajir Adjarians – Recorded in 2023 by Giorgi Kraveishvili and Khatuna Damchidze

 

Akchakoca District, village of Cicekpinar

Performed by Basri Mutioglu – Khiralishvili

Gelino in Turkish (Wedding–dance song)

Flying high, flying high (Dance song)

I was going high, going high (Dance song)

 

Akchakoca District, village of Melenazi (also known as Meleni Piri)

Performed by Irfan and Cengiz Pekbey

Jilvelo (Dance song) – Mehmeddemir Tofaloglu, Irfan and Cengiz (soloist)

Siksara Horon song in Turkish – Cengiz

Soylerum Yana Yana in Turkish (Verse songs) – Started by Irfan, joined by Cengiz

Soylerum Yana Yana in Turkish (Verse songs) – Irfan

Tirini Horirama (Dance song) – Irfan

 

Aide Tsevdet as verse – Ali Demircioglu Chedashvili

 

City of Duzce

Huri Mercan Kobaladze from the village of Findikli, Aksu

One said one, the other replied (Lyrical song)

You say one, I say one (Lyrical song)

Gelino (Wedding song) – fragment, joined by Mahmud Makaroglu

Indim Dere in Turkish (Dance song)

Tikinjan

Turkish dance song

Incantation against the evil eye

 

Performed by Mahmud Makaroglu – Makarashvili/Makharashvili from the village of Gurji Ciflik

Gelino (Wedding–dance song)

Beautiful in the meadow

Georgian–Laz humorous song

Come, I will take you – performed by Veysel Cakar from the village of Haci Yapush, Goliyaka District

Vahahay (Wedding–dance song) – performed by Mahmud Makaroglu (soloist) from Gurji Ciflik, Mahmud Mercan Kobaladze from Findikli (Aksu), and Aydin Dursun Kartcivadze from Gurji Ciflik

 

City of Sapanca

Fatma Tan

Jilvelo (Dance song)

Tsitsi Tsipolia (Children’s game song)

 

Nana Chkimi (Laz–Georgian) – performed by Rauf Yazici from the village of Mamudiye

Nanidana – performed by Jaber Gezgin Yarvenshvili from Istanbul Deresi