“You often plant our flag on the ramparts of the Wild Turks” (Hungarian anthem)

After Blacklake (2016), My name is Elvis Presley (2018), a The Big Slalom (2020) and Nachtmusik (2021) here is the fifth reximed album of Cserepes!

It was a long time ago. Our relations with the Turks are fading into the gloom of the past. Small is the number of our centuries-old folk songs and ballads that still remember these encounters. Even then, only very delicately, cleanly, quietly, without emotion. The most serious dramatic content is expressed in the calmest narrative voice.

Coincidentally, the richness of emotions, dramatic power, and "wildness" of Turkish folklore seemed to be one of the possibilities to unfold the hidden drama of these textual memories.
Make it possible to experience the suffering of the Turkish subjugation for the civilian population. Because, just like the wars of today, all wars are about them: the civilian victims, the mother, the daughter, the child.

Continuing the imaginary time travel,
we may look even further in space and time: in Inner Asia, in the centuries before the conquest, the wandering Ancient Hungarians lived in long-term relations with small Turkic peoples (Azeris, Kazakhs, Karachay-Balkars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Nogais, etc.).
The melodic structure of a significant proportion of our songs reveals this coexistence.
We were curious how some of our Asian-origin melodies would sound in the light of today's Turkic traditional music.

Károly Cserepes places sound recordings of traditional music in an unusual musical environment; without changing the original forms he drapes them in different robes through digital technology. The original recordings interact and converse with one another creating a new musical fabric, rearranging it, resulting in an exotic sound for modern folk. Cserepes’s goal is to offer treasures of folk music usually only available to the small circle of those in the ethnomusicology profession, to a wider audience.

The Sold Girl

1. Get Ready my Daughter 4:22
2. Katalina Bodor 4:56
3. Why is your Leg Bloody 1:26
4. Little Bird 4:14
5. I am Going to Turkey 4:51
6. Katalinka 1:49
7. Little Wife 4:32
8. Little Bedsheet, Little Pillow 2:02

Featuring:

1. Lilla Rávai, Budapest (H), (6 years old)
2. Csinszka Rávai, Budapest (H), (8 years old)

Thanks to the singers of lost times:

1. Mária Gyurka, 1950 Gajcsána (RO): NM_Gr_143A
2. Anna Német, 1938 Törökkoppány (H): NM_Gr_021; 022
3. Anna Csorba, 1968 Gyimesközéplok-Jávárdipataka (RO): ZTI_AP_09429f
4. Péter Gábor, 1971 Gyimesfelsőlok (RO): ZTI_AP_08052a
5. Lucia Antal, 1954 Klézse (RO): NM_Gr_0204Ba
6. Júlia Kovács, 1966 Hertelendyfalva (RS): ZTI_AP_06022a

Thanks for the archive recordings to:

Institute for Musicology, Budapest Museum of Ethnography, Budapest Turkic Folkmusic Archives of János Sipos to Nataliya and her family