ILGI - Tumsa, Tumsa, Kas Par Tumsu

[@tallguy181]

Fantastic, I've found another Northern European folk group that is very especially good. Love these people :)

[@bekarass]

"Šiaulių Dienos 2011" This was the finishing song :}} I love them!!!

[@pawstravel]

SUPER MŪZIKA !

[@blackholeofnothing8940]

What does this song mean? Can anyone translate and write its lyrics? I really want to sing!

[@martaevabetakova483]

I'm not Latvian, I'm Czech, but I studied Latvian so I'll try :-) Latvians, please correct me if I'm wrong :-) The song consists of several short folk songs. They are all mythological, symbolistic, with complex meanings and hard to explain. The first one was usually sung during the Winter Solstice and speaks about a hero who tries and destroys winter, aided by Stars and the Moon. The remaining songs explain what happens in the sky. (For example, why we can't see Morning Star in the evening.) Please don't be confused by the alternating present and past tense - that's common in Latvian folk songs, they use present and past tense based simply on which suits the sentence and the rhythm better. The stories were universal and eternal, so it didn't matter whether the plot took place some time ago, or is happenning right now. Tumsa, tumsa, kas par tumsu, es par tumsu nebēdāj‘. Bij‘ manami kumeļami zvaigžņu sega mugurā. Tas bij‘ labis tumsā jāti, ledus kalnu līdzināt. Ledus kalnu līdzināti, līdz uzlēca Mēnestiņš. Mēnestiņis zvaigznes skaita vai ir visas vakarā. Visas bija vakarāi Auseklīša vien nebij‘. Auseklītis aiztecēja Saules meitu lūkoties. Saule deva savu meitu no veļiemi šai zemē. Darkness, darkness, what a darkness, darkness doesn't/didn't worry me. My horse had a star blanket on its back. The horse was so good that I was able to ride in darkness and to flatten an ice mountain. To flatten an ice mountain the Moon helped me, by rising. (Or, it might mean "I was flattening an ice mountain until the Moon rose." I'm not sure about this part.) The Moon is counting the stars to find out if all of them are present in the evening. All of them were present in the evening, only Morning Star was missing. Morning Star had run away to look for Sun’s Daughter. The Sun brought (or, was organizing a wedding of) her daughter sending her from the land of the souls (=underworld) to this world.

[@blackholeofnothing8940]

@@martaevabetakova483 special thanks to you... you are very kind!

[@Lachausis]

Ieteiktu pie atslēgas vārdiem visiem klipiem ierakstīt "Latvian folk music". Vairāk izcelt tieši to "folk" arī aprakstos. Folk žanra cienītājiem vieglāk atrast.

[@2sSHenky]

Esītī?? heij.. veči dod! :D

[@maragalka]

Jūs esat Dievi :)

[@gunita5754]

Kad Tev uz mūzikas stundu vajag zināt -_-

[@gunita5754]

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