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Thread #162514   Message #3867983
Posted By: Jack Campin
24-Jul-17 - 07:49 AM
Thread Name: Collaborative YouTube performances
Subject: Collaborative YouTube performances
I was just looking for versions of this song (a Sufi love lyric, really directed to God, by the mediaeval Turkish bard Yunus Emre) and this video gave me rather more than I expected:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GN4qywPwVk

The singers are from all over the world (though the Syrian and Iraqi performers were filmed in Turkey). Their pronunciation is sometimes a bit weird but they all nail the tune, and the African woman's finish is spectacular.

I've seen similarly constructed videos organized from Turkey before. I think the very first video like this was African-American, and on Vimeo, but I forget what the song was.

Seems to me this ought to work for one of the longer British ballads (Lord Bateman, say). Anybody tried?