Neço Muko (born October 21, 1899) also known as Neço Muko Himarjoti was an Albanian singer and composer. His musical style created a new genre of Albanian polyphonic music called avaz himariot or avaz himariotçe that became identified with the music of his home region Himarë. He died in 1934.
Neço Muko was born on October 21, 1899 in Himarë, southern Albania. After attending primary school he travelled to the Kingdom of Greece to study. He returned to Albania in 1916, during World War I. Muko learned how to play the violin and the mandolin, and in 1923 he started composing vaudevilles. In 1924 he moved to France, but in 1926 returned to Albania. In the town of Sarandë he founded a choral group named Pif-Paf. In 1929 and 1930 he travelled again to France with his group to make recordings for Pathé Records, in which Albanian students studying in France took part. These recordings increased his popularity in southern Albania and helped him establish his new genre the avaz himariot or avaz himariotçe.
Broken wings upon me,
Disappointed's tears
Perverse fortune wakes up
Magnitude of my exist
Waiting for sentence of the death
Suspended in huge vacuum
I still count of fast solution
Imprison pieces of soul
Only aim to destruction
Waiting for the death
I'm hiding in his arms
(Chorus)
Mighty lord take of the spell
Take of course that made me blind
Am I over death am I over life
He: Groggy of wasted fear / She: Me against my life,
I,m folding roses on my grave / Me against my heart
Retard remain of human wishes / Me against my love,
Climbing to prevent escape / Me against my blood.
He: Lord of darkness side / She: Lord of darkness side
I entrust to you my life! / Give me back my life!
She: I'm calling you, I'm waiting for your awakening, Rise! across the deadly threshold!
He: I hear your voice, I fell sweet numbness, your tears are falling down on my haunted soul...
(Chorus)
Mighty lord take of the spell
Take of course that made me blind
Am I over death am I over life?!
Mighty lord take of the spell
Take of course that made me blind