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1. THE BIRTH OF THE SINGER
Two Estonian songs, Lauliku Lapsepõli and Arg Kosilane, put together
into one narrative.
2. VANAPAGANA LUGU I & II (The Old Heathen's Tune)
A selection of Estonian dance tunes. Part I in an unusual modal setting.
Fiddle open tuned GDGB.
3. Y GWCW (The Cuckoo)
A spring time swinging song and a song for the cuckoo from Estonia. Some
tunes collected, or arranged, or composed by Iolo Morgannwg - flute player
and visionary of Cowbridge, Glamorganshire. Fiddle tuned AEAE.
4. ILUS GWEN (Beautiful Gwen)
A setting of Bugeilia'r Gwenith Gwyn, melody from Carmarthenshire, last
two verses from Sille. The tunes that follow are the Red Piper's Conceit
and the Song of the Prophet David. Bowed Harp tuned AEAE.
5. TULE KOJU (Come Home)
The difficulties of stopping drinking even when faced with familial disaster.
Words from Võrumaa in Estonia. The melodies are triban tunes from
Evan Rowlands, Ifor Ceri and Pontypridd. Bowed Harp tuned AEAE.
6. SILVER SAILS
A popular love song of loss and the sea, possibly from Kihnu island. The
melody has been modalised. A Welsh tune Farewell to Bedwas punctuates
and concludes the song.
7. CÂN Y CEFFYL (The Horse Song)
Two neighbouring parishes in the south of Estonia each have half of the
complete song. The song is for a game of wolf and horse and dark undertones.
A misty Welsh tune The Grey Lad. A children's nonsense-alliteration song.
A minor/modal setting of the ubiquitous Welsh tune Ffidl Ffadl. Bowed
Harp to ADAE.
8. VANAPAGANA LUGU III (The Old Heathen's Tune)
Hornpipe tunes in 3/2 meter. A tune in the cywydd meter with a fragment
of 16th Century cywydd poetry sits between them. Fiddle to GDGB.
9. TRIP TO THE WONDERLAND
A song in the near extinct language of Livonian, a lost land between modern
Estonia and Latvia. Then an Estonian song mirroring the first - journeying
to home and to a land of wonders.
10. A STRANGER TO THE EARTH
Ma Olen Maa Peal Võõras Ja Paljalt Rändaja - a choral
song melody from the Estonian sacred tradition.