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Ide Were Were

Ide Were Were - Lullaby

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Ide Were Were is a devotional song inspired by the beauty of water and the reverence for its spirit.
The song is from West Africa, in the Yoruba spiritual tradition, where Oshun is the sacred female spirit connected to rivers, fertility, beauty, and tenderness. As it has traveled and has different versions, a literal translation is not possible but the closest would be:

“Oshun’s bracelets move gently,
Oshun’s ornaments,
softly sounding: cheke, cheke, cheke.”

The song invokes with reverence the gentleness of water by suggesting the delicate, swirling movements of the water at the same time of the delicate sound of the ceremony bracelets for Oshun.

With gratitude for the medicine of this music that traveled to reach us.

Original river sound recorded by Montañas Vacias: Caños de Gúdar.

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