Arrangement by Farya Faraji, based on folk melodic motifs from southern Romania. The painting is by Mișu Popp, a Romanian painter and muralist of the 19th century. The Haiduci (plural for haiduc; spelled differently in different languages), were a form of irregular infantry from the Balkans that would become freedom fighters against Ottoman occupation from the 16th to the century 19th centuries. They have now acquired a Robin Hood like quality in the folk traditions of Balkan countries, and many individual hajduks have attained the status of national heroes in their respective countries. The music is not my own composition, only my slightly augmented rendition of traditional Wallachian dance music, characterised by this very expressive form of fiddle-instrument playing, the usage of the ubiquitous, pan-Balkan kaval flute, and up until the 20th century, the usage of percussions, still heard in historical reconstructions of Wallachian music like Anton Pann's, but now mostly gone from modern Romanian music, where the percussive aspect is provided by the țambal hammered dulcimer, which I also used here.

As a Romanian, I can only say that I feel honoured to be part of Your community for such a long time. From the Hikanatoi to this day

Greetings from Wallachia! 💙💛❤

As a Greek i am really vibing to this

My favorite neighbors!!! We have been back against back for millennia. From Bulgaria with love!

Vibing to this. Greetings to our neighbors from Serbia!

Greetings and big love to our orthodox brothers Romanians from Serbia we are brothers forever 🇷🇸❤️🇷🇴

Gotta love how you made it sound exactly how romanian folk music sounds like! Impressed by your work as always! Greetings from Romania 🇷🇴

Așa taică! ❤️

multu mushate, love it from Aromanian from south balkans (Albania, Greece)

Our Romanian bros! Many Serb hajduks fought for our Romanian bros and we will again if needed! Amin

My grandparents were from bukovina and my last name is Haidu

You got the eclectic nature of Romanian folk songs perfectly. I love the sort of asymmetric effect you can hear in a lot of these horas. Very unique

Always love the variety of music on this channel. Thanks again for the composition as well as the history lesson!

Ah, thank you, this is quite like music of my childhood in sunny Bessarabia. My family name Voloshin is just the Ukrainian for "Wallachian".

❤ from Greece 🇷🇴

As a Romanian I am both surprised and happy that you made this video. Love your music.

Beautiful piece of a song ,greetings from Hungary!

Much love From Türkiye ❤

Ah, the caval. The Carpathian mountains really did keep something ancestral alive. Feels like listening to neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilia EEF music.

Love from a Romanian! Amazing job, my brother. My psychotherapy supervisor is from Iran. I love him dearly. I always felt a deep connection to Iran.

I am honored as a romanian that you show a lot of attention to romanian old songs. Keep going.

i love your muzic greeting from Bulgaria!

As a Romanian Aromanian born and raised in Romania, I do have to admit that this piece of art is extremely well-done. S'bâneadzâ Armânamea shi Rumânjia

Brother thank youuuuu so much for that, mean so much to me, great song you must more big love from 🇷🇴 🇵🇹 ♥

Great piece! Glory to Hajduks, liberators of the Balkans!

would love to see 'Ciuleandra' arranged by Farya Faraji

Romania is the best. My parents were born in there.❤🇷🇴

As a Romanian i can feel the power of this song

Such an interesting country indeed, I hope for more Romanian music soon.

Greetings from Romania! This song is a masterpiece. Lovely interpretation!

My wife is Romanian and I am very interested in Romanian culture and music. Thank you for this beautiful song.

Greetings from romania! i love your work, from the roman songs to the viking ones

As a Romanian, I can only say: This channel is awesome!

Damn, if Dracula comes from the same place as this badass music, I have no problem letting him into my room 😃

¡Salvete hermanos Rumanos! ¡Pueblo Latino al igual que los Hispanos!.

This is awesome! Could I use this and some of your other music in a Dungeons and Dragons podcast? I'd be sure to credit you.

Great work. Greetings and best wishes from Türkiye to you dear Farya🙋‍♂🙋‍♂

Excellent!!! Sounds very Greek too. I guess there’s a Balkan musical substructure that’s similar to all the Balkans.

as a Romanian, the love I already had for your channel just grew bigger!

You just made a lot of romanian history nerds very happy with this upload

Perfectly timed!

Wonderful music to my ears, just excellent. Loving that you are exploring this region's music, hoping to hear more from you. Also, many hugs to our neighbors in Romania in the comment section from Hungary:)

When you're a Turk and you hear the forest play this but you suddenly realize that those are not trees but actually stakes.

I can imagine if one of my ancestors was a haiduc riding out with his horse out on the countryside! Like many other videos of yours, Farya, you inspire many people about history and myth and legend and I can't thank you enough! Mulțumesc!

love to our romanian brothers from Greece

I love Romanian folk music. It has so many colors. Valachia, Moldova, Dobrodgea, Banat. Each region has musical treasures. Not to forget the music of the national minorities: Hungarians, Romi, Serbs, Germans, Ukraineans, Slovacs and many more.

This has no reason And I mean NO REASON To slap as hard as it did Thank you very much for this, nearly made me bust romanian folk dance moves while waiting in a queue. All love to you, from Romania

First time hearing this style of music, and it's awesome - heck, it almost made me want to get up and dance! Fantastic work dude, you got a subscriber!

As a Romanian ,,i can only say ,,,BRAVO ,,i feel honoured!!!

Thank you, Farya ! It is a great pleasure that you honor our musical folk traditions with this piece. Hope there are many more to come. Greetings from Oltenia, one of the homelands of the haiduci !

Gotta love the Haiduci/Hajduci/Kleftes, they liberated the whole Balkans not by strength in numbers but by clever tactics and sheer resilience. Glory to the Haiduci of all Balkan nations, and glory to the Romanian people! 🇷🇴♥️🇷🇸❤️🇬🇷♥️🇧🇬♥️🇲🇰

Imagine my surprise after months of perusing your channel to see some, not just Romanian representation, but specifically Wallachian. Hah, makes me think of home.

In love with this

Damn, this sounds gooood!

Epic!

stop my feet! they start to dance under the desk...uncontrollably

i m from Wallachia and i salute you!

Bias aside I implore you to continue making more traditional Romanian music with its forgotten percussion elements, it’s a very rare niche that hasn’t been rediscovered yet and you might make your mark in reviving it!

Salutari din sudul Romaniei 🇷🇴 🔥 🔥 🔥

Great song mate.Greetings from Wallachia

🇧🇬♥️🇷🇴 We are true brothers

The song resembles oddly to Caucasia's famous Shalakho dance especially the refrain part

Awesome to see Romanian culture and history be represented,.much love from 🇲🇽

Lepa narodna glasba...

Amazing!

I listen a lot to the music created by you and I didn't expect to see a wallachian music :)) This music made my day beautiful :))....

Absolutely amazing song, I've been listening and enjoying your songs for quite a while now, especially the Roman ones, but i did not expect this! Ca Român, îți mulțumesc și te felicit.

What a perfect time to post this video. Netflix just released the second season of the docu series "Rise of Empires: Ottoman", which is about the war between Mehmed II and Vlad Tepes. I absolutely recommend it!

Stupendo! Ipnotico...Trascinante fino alle vertigini. Una voglia irresistibile di ballare all'infinito, senza tregua. ...

So cool! Cheers to our Romanian brothers who are badasses!

Sounds amazing. Greetings from a proud Romanian!

New Romanian music!🇹🇩

😀I don't normally listen to dance music. I feel your dance music as a background music from a film about Balkan. Imagine a group of Ottoman soldiers coming into the forest and suddenly the music start and a large group of hajduks or haiduc start to ambush them.

AYO! I just saw this in my recommended and as a Romanian I am VIBING right now at 9:05 in the morning!

Congratulations from a hungarian hajdú.

You hit the zeitgeist spirit of our time, Farya. I wonder if it's "theopnefsto" (divinely inspired) or you know something...thus heightening the alert for the rest of us. Above all, beautiful video, as always.

Sir you really are a genius. This is amazing.

Epic song for us, ty for this 🤝

Aici suntem. Aici rămânem.

I didn't know this one and the tempo is really nice. I'm not much of a fan of Romanian folk but you make it sound really nice. Thanks for all your work Farya! 😁

Great job capturing the energy of the songs of that time in Valahia ,keep up the good work

Wallachia(Valahia)Tata aici n-am născut aici luptăm aici murim hau hau lupii mă🇷🇴🐺❤🥁🐎⚔🎵🎶🇷🇴

Greathings from Romania!

Romanian here. You did very, very well. I honestly love all of it. Fits very well with the era you were trying to replicate, I just can't comment anything. Good luck in the future, Farya Faraji!

bro this song is so good i love romanian history

Good stuff.

Wow, je vois parfaitement des gens faire des dances endiablées sur cette musique ! Elle est très entraînante !

Wow! Amazing learned somthing new about romanian history and I would like you to do a one on _"Vlad Dracula the Impaler"_ in future 😊

As a Moldovan all I can say is te iubesc

Wonderful video as always! Here is a list of other interesting traditional Romanian songs Baladă a lui Vodă Brâncoveanu Eu sunt Barbu Lăutarul Caval de-a lungu de pe Somes - Ion Farcas Cimpoi - Ion Laceanu Lelita Saftitan - Anton Pann Chira Chiralina Trei in lume nu se poate - Bogdan Simion Dunăre apă vioară Caval Joc De Inceput Uite lunca-mbobocește Cand Plecai De La Ramnic Doina din Nasaud (Caval) Ion Farcas Voinicul strain / Voinicel străin Mioriţa - Tudor Gheorghe Balada lui Radu Anghel Caval de-a lungu de pe Somes - Ion Farcas Cimpoi - Ion Laceanu Toata lumea are dor Of, Inima me - Etnos Balada Conducatorului (not really traditional, but still) Cântec de alungat strigoii / Funeral song ( This is a song meant to banish strigoii (kind of like zombie/vampire/ghost things) at funerals played by the romanians living in serbia Sârbă ciobănească Also, regarding the haiducii, there are songs about their deeds. The most famous 2 songs I can think of are Cântecul lui Iancu Jianu (in this song Iancu goes to the market to buy lead for bullets but on his way back a mob, lead by a boyar, catches up to him, they were on different sides of a river and Iancu Jianu tells the boyar that he will shoot him in the chest, mock him and eventually turn him and his wife into pistol holsters and a bagpipe Another one is Balada lui Radu Anghel. ( he is actually the one in the painting in the video) This one is about how Radu Anghel and his band rob a corrupt priest. They pay him a visit and Radu greets him and the priests greets him back saying "good afternoon captain" but radu tells him he is not a captain, captains spend their time in markets, he says he is "a man of the forest" and to give him his money, the priest swears on his old age and his church that he doesn't have any and then Radu punches him in the mouth and the priest suddenly remembers about a bucket of coins behind a door. Then the priest starts complaining about how Radu left him penniless and Radu tells him he never used a scythe, sickle or ever ploughed a field and that all his money was made by tricking old women and stealing money by charging fees for confessions

Love your music! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this! Have been listening to your music for a while! So happy to see you delve into our culture too!

It is an honor for us to be able to listen your voice and compositions. You are very talented! Greetings from Romania!

You should make a skenderbeg or Gjergj Kastrioti themed Albanian track next, a good track to look at is "Albulena", it is a old 15th century Albanian song that talks about the war against the ottomans and the defense of Europe from Turkish Invasions, this would be a good one to include. Much love! (:

Faryaaaa, bless you!! I don't have enough words to thank you and to say how much happy you made me with this!! If you ever visit Bucharest I will buy you a drink! 😀

Farya making bangers as always

Something that you can really dance to

Excellent ! I like it a lot ! Sounds to my greek ears so familiar

I'm so excited to see more Romanian pieces. The other ones were already great.