Charis Alexiou: I manges then iparchoun pia (3 mins) Album: Ta laika tis Charoulas Minos 7243 4 80500 2 1
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Nagat: Ana bashak al-bahr (5 mins 29 secs) Album: Arabia: the Women's Voice Manteca MantCD031
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Nenes + Ry Cooder: Shima Jima Kaisha (7mins 05 secs) Album: Routes Nascente NSCDD2000
BACKGROUND
No 1 is Greek: a song about a Greek gangster after the 1922 Catastrophe, when Turkish Greeks were forcibly deported to Greece and vice versa. No 2: an Egyptian lovesong. No 3: an Okinawan song. I have NO IDEA what it's about but it's still lovely!