Music and lyrics by Mor Karbasi

When Spain’s Ladino-speaking Jewish population fled the Inquisition in 1942, only their most beautiful songs survived. Mor Karbasi is now reviving this ancient tradition.

Mor: “When I sing I feel connected to myself but also separate, as if singing allows me to go out of my body and feel lighter. When I first heard Ladino music, I felt at home. But I also wanted to make it my own and contribute to the revival of this beautiful culture, which is why I started to write songs in Ladino and Spanish. This way I have made Sephardic music an inseparable part of myself.

“Volveremos is about being far from home for a long time. When I sing it, I feel warm in my heart. It's very personal to me, as I also live far from my home, but everyone can put their own interpretation on it.”

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Recorded live at Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton, 19 October 2008

I dream of the far away spring
I dream of bells in your laughter
Our ship is waiting among the waves that cry out a melody,
Let us return, my dove, to the far away spring…

The despair of the day becomes night,
The sea is bitter, it cries to the sight of dawn
Let us sail to fields of wheat
Let us return, my dove, to the far away spring…