Shira u'tfila - Biviendo en kantando (Life as a Song)

Music&Words

This album is based on the earliest existing recordings of Sephardic music recorded mainly in Istanbul,Thessaloniki and New York from 1907 to the 1920s..  These songs reveal both the richness and the variety of the Sephardic repertoire from the end of the 19th century. Accompanying the 18 tracks by Shira u'tfila is a second bonus CD, featuring 78 rpm recordings that served as inspiration. This album has been selected in "Top of th World" section of "Songlines" magazine.

Shira u'tfila - The Sephardic Songs from the Balkans

Orange World Records

Album contains songs in Ladino and Hebrew and even one in those two languages alternately with Turkish and Serbian. One can find here wedding, religious and love songs as well as one lullaby. This wonderful package contains 32 pages booklet with texts in English and Poolish about the tracks, artists, Sephardic music and culture.

Shira u'tfila - Kante Enkantante (The Magic of the Song)

Ethnica Sounds

This is live recording made at the Belgrade Ethno Fusion Fest. It captures the energy and spirit of live performance. Additional bonus track recorded at the multireligous performance that included Muslim, Christian and Jewish community representatives in Serbia.  

Drita Tutunovic & Shira u'tfila - Donde Tiyenes Ojos? (Where did you get those eyes?)

Spanish Ministry of Culture

This album is result of coolaboration with Ms. Drita Tutunovic a native Ladino speaker. It features wedding and birth songs (de boda i parida) and lullabies (de kuna), which Ms. Tutunovic has learned at home by listening to her mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles and other cousins singing them.

Shira u'tfila - Heritage

Jewish Centre for Culture and Art

Recorded live at the Kolarac Concert Hall. The musical tradition of Sephardim from the Balkans, Mediterranean and Middle East, with songs in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and Hebrew from three continents. 

Shira u'tfila - Bisharayih Yerushalaim (At Thy Gates, O, Jerusalem)

PGP RTS

Features a repertoire of Ladino  and Hebrew songs originating in the Balkans and Mediterranean, along with classic Turkish  pieces and Arabic instrumentals.

Shira u'tfila - Nagila Aleluya ("Let us be joyous and praise God")

Belgrade Jewish Community

"Nagila Aleluya"  presents the paraliturgical tradition of the mustarabi Sephardim, the Arabic-speaking Jews of the Middle East.

Shira u'tfila - Shaharit shel Shabbat

Skoplje Jewish Community

Most of the melodies used in this recording represent the local Sarajevo and Belgrade liturgical tradition and have a parallel in Bosnian and Macedonian songs, as well as in old Serbian patriotic songs. This recording has been made in Skoplje (Macedonia) and it has an instrumental accompaniment.  

Ner Micva

Liturgical music tradition from Belgrade and Sarajevo. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia lay on the border between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman empires, with the Jewish communities of Belgrade and Sarajevo—once vibrant, now waning—a rare crossroads between these two cultures.  "Arvit Shel Shabbat" highlights the unique liturgical tradition of these Jews, and their mixture of Sephardic (Spanish) and Askhenazi (Eastern European) melodies.