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Sof​í​a, the Saracen's Daughter

from Ochre by Andrew Cronshaw

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Part of the English ballad of "Lord Bateman", the version recorded on cylinder in 1908 by Percy Grainger of the singing of Joseph Taylor, Saxby-All-Saints, Lincolnshire. Natacha sings an extract from the story, in Arabic.

(The Joseph Taylor recordings, of Lord Bateman and other songs, are a window on another way of music, and were a touchstone in the making of this album).

lyrics

Précis of the story, using some lines from the ballad:
"A noble lord of high degree... some foreign country he would go see. He sailed east and he sailed west until he came to famed Turkey... where he was taken and put in prison. His jailer had one only daughter, the fairest creature..." They make alove pact, she steals the keys, he leaves. The years pass, so she sets off on a long journey to find him...

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from Ochre, released August 1, 2004
Tune: Trad/Atlas/Chhadeh/Cronshaw/Blake/Tsahouridis
Lyrics: Trad/Atlas/Chhadeh

Natacha Atlas: vocal
Andrew Cronshaw: ba-wu. zither, fujara
Abdullah Chhadeh: oud
Matthaios Tsahouridis: Pontic lyra
Ian Blake: bass clarinet, piano

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Andrew Cronshaw London, UK

Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumentalist and producer, soloist and also leader of the Finnish/Armenian/British band SANS, who also has a long career as a writer on roots musics, particularly those of the Nordic, Baltic, eastern and central European and Iberian regions, for fRoots, The Rough Guide to World Music etc. ... more

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