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What are you listening to? Part III
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It wasn't a very big place, all I can remember is it was a club on the southwest corner of the block. I got in line (festival seating) and got a seat in the second row, right in front of Chick. Incredible show.
After the second number Chick looked a bit winded, and exclaimed, "How do you people breathe up here?!?" (Santa Fe is at 7,200 ft)
Arsenio Rodriguez - "Dame un Cachito Pa' Huele", the original 1946 recording. Never gets old!
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We don't have Santa Claus, we have Müslüm Baba. Santa Claus enters us through the chimney, Müslüm Baba enters us through the vein. 💔❤️🩹
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@AhmetRyzen: I seem to recall that you may have mentioned that you are from Turkey.
I love Istanbul - have transited endlessly through the city, sometimes, staying over a day or two; anyway, several years ago, I purchased three CDs (of modern instrumental music, with Turkish trad or folk influences) by a group called Café Anatolia, for easy listening on flights or when travelling, and must say that I have greatly enjoyed listening to them on occasion.
I love Istanbul - have transited endlessly through the city, sometimes, staying over a day or two; anyway, several years ago, I purchased three CDs (of modern instrumental music, with Turkish trad or folk influences) by a group called Café Anatolia, for easy listening on flights or when travelling, and must say that I have greatly enjoyed listening to them on occasion.
Yes, I am from Turkey. I'm living in South Turkey.
I also traveled everywhere except the eastern and Black Sea parts of Turkey. I don't even remember how many times I went to Istanbul. However, Istanbul is much more tiring than Adana. While Istanbul is a city with a population of 20 million, Adana has a population of 3 million. Istanbul is a very crowded place. When you walk on the sidewalk, you always have to pass among people. This is not the case in Adana, the northern part of the city is very quiet and decent. But the southern part is not like that. There are gunfights and drug problems every day in the southern part of the city center. We can say that it is more dangerous than Texas. There are not many such problems in Istanbul, except for the Esenyurt district.
As for the music part, most of our national instruments come from our ancestors in Central Asia. Reed instruments, wind instruments. The most popular among them is undoubtedly baglama. Today, songs sung in Turkish and with Turkish instruments are called "Türkü". In general; It deals with topics such as love, bravery, death and happiness. Wherever you go in Turkey, you will encounter songs called Türkü.
The song I posted above is called a Turkish arabesque song. Although there are Turkish instruments such as drums and drums, the style of singing is like Arabic literature. During the Ottoman period, we interacted a lot with the surrounding people.
As for the music part, our music created only with instruments is very good, but when Turkish music is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is Turkish. In the past, Turks wrote poems and songs called "Koşuk, Sav, Sagu, Destan" along with instruments such as baglama. And since Turkish is a harmonious language, it sounds very nice. Turkish; It is not the same as English, French, Persian and Arabic. Since these languages are from the Indo-European and Semitic families, there are no affixes and genderless subjects. However, in Turkish languages, it is not only Anatolian Turkish. There are more than 100 Turkish languages. Our languages are agglutinative and genderless. For example, while you use subjects like "He, She, It", of course yours are gendered subjects; Only the subject "O" is enough for us. As for the addition from the end: There is a root, the smallest part of the word that contains meaning, and is accompanied by inflectional suffixes, derivational suffixes, plural suffixes and possessive suffixes. Without these, we cannot obtain a meaningful sentence. Additionally, inverted sentences are used in Turkish songs. He gives that harmony anyway. Apart from that, such as syllable meters, rhymes and verse forms... Therefore, if you are going to listen to music in accordance with Turkish folk traditions, be sure to listen to songs with lyrics. Listen to that harmony, the rhythm that pleases the ear. Remember, Turkish is the most beautiful language in the world.
Well, there are no inverted sentences in English.
Thank you for your thoughtful, detailed, post.
Have you any good recommendations re groups that play modern instrumental music from Turkey?
As my parents (especially my mother) used to always buy music from whatever country they travelled to, I also try to do the same thing, especially if I spend some time in the country and am not simply dashing through airports.
Hm.
I will happily accept that it is a beautiful language, but, "the most beautiful language", I think, may well be a matter for debate.
Personally, I love the sound of Italian, which I think beautiful, and the melancholy cadences of Russian also appeal to my depressed northern European soul. And ear.
And I love the English language.
I liked this much more than I thought I would.
Good share!
Of course, there are millions of quality songs like these.
Lovely piece, and thanks for sharing.
In general, I tend to prefer instrumental pieces - and the instrumental sections here are lovely.
Actually, this reminds me a little of some of the (local, traditional) music that one sometimes hears in parts of the Balkans, in the former Yugoslavia.
Yeah. We were 400 year lived together with Balkans. Cultural shocks are very much.
Not so much "culture shocks" as a positive melding and blending of respective (musical) and other, cultural traditions.
The coffee is superb in the Balkans, (as it is in Turkey), and it seems to have come to Europe, (via Viennese coffee houses) from the Balkans, from Ottoman times.
Actually, Turkey is one of two countries where I have been - the other is Kenya - where the tea and coffee are both invariably superb.
Most countries manage to be good at one or the other, very few are extremely good at both.
Joe Jackson, "Passacaglia / A Bud and a Slice." It's one of the weirdest songs I've ever heard, but I love it! Some of the lyrics seem a little NSFW (idk, maybe I'm being too careful), so I won't post the link.
Phillip Glass, "Opening". I really love this piece. So much so that I actually learned it awhile ago. Probably my favorite part is when the A flat major chord goes to G minor, like at 1:51. And that part's all the more satisfying to play, too! It doesn't have the same effect without context though. It's almost like the entire piece needs to be heard for that one single chord change to make sense - and sound SO GOOD as a result.
EDIT: Well, I know why - it's a massive release of tension as soon as that G minor hits, along with the general dynamics of the piece. So without hearing the whole piece (or at least one refrain of it), you're not hearing the whole build-up. The piano score is chock full of dynamics markings.
I also forgot I made a recording of the piece on a Yamaha U1 upright piano, which totally changes the sound, and ultimately how I perceive the piece.
EDIT: Well, I know why - it's a massive release of tension as soon as that G minor hits, along with the general dynamics of the piece. So without hearing the whole piece (or at least one refrain of it), you're not hearing the whole build-up. The piano score is chock full of dynamics markings.
I also forgot I made a recording of the piece on a Yamaha U1 upright piano, which totally changes the sound, and ultimately how I perceive the piece.
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There is a lot of Joe Joe Jackson that I love and a lot that I'm not that into..
Is that the singer from crash test dummies?
Not bad.
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Had to learn this for a class, and oh my, this is an amazing song!! I've never heard of this group before. We're gonna put together our own arrangement of it tomorrow. The upright bass seems so uncommon in this style, yet it works so well!
You like (and study, and teach, and play) keyboard (and Philip Glass is magnificent).
Have you listened to the soundtrack for the movie "The Hours"? Yes, Philip Glass composed it, and the keyboards are compelling.
Specifically, the tracks (pieces) "Morning Passages" and the eponymous "The Hours".
Anyway, I am currently listening to "Morning Passages"; simply sublime; actually, superb.