Thursday, 5 January 2012

Blues for Ali Pasha Tepeleni


I once heard a snatch of an old Albanian folksong; the sound carried from the valley below Berat Castle.

Where's Ali the Lion?
"Body in Jannina,
Head in Istanbul".

(from "Corfu Blues", the book).







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