Searching Music from Greece and Turkey

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 06:41 AM

One song that has become topical in Turkey in recent years is the "Yemen Turkusu", aka "Burasi Mustur". It was written during WW1, abut a village in eastern Anatolia that lost most of young men fighting the British in Yemen. It's become a comment on any of the wars in the region - Turkey's own civil war in Kurdistan in particular. Here it is applied to Gaza, sung by the crew of the "Mavi Marmara":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2n15iArxs

You will find many versions of that on the web. Look for the recording date to see which war the singer had in mind.

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: Jack Campin
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 06:13 AM

Probably the way to look for such recent music is to search for charts or other clues to recent origin. Amazon listinsg are one option. I figured there had to be a Turkish song about the Israeli pirates attacking the Mavi Marmara, and found one immediately:

Sinan Sami

It isn't all that good but it's certainly topical. Russia will have had plenty of recent events that could make for songs.

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 25 Mar 13 - 03:36 AM

Try Alp Bora (Trio/Quartet). Songs from Anatolia. Two CDs "Amber" and "Bab". Great Voice, guitar, fiddl,cello, percussion. You will find him at www.alpbora.net. Or the Group "SAFRAN" with their CD Sevinc & hüzün.

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Mar 13 - 07:26 PM

Get in touch with Carol Coronis -- her contact info is

here

You can mention my name -- Linn Schulz (not sure she'd recognize Bat Goddess)

Linn

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 24 Mar 13 - 12:10 PM

Can't help you with releases quite that recent. There are though mountains of stuff from the first four countries. Less so from Croatia.

Rather than compile a list of personal favourites, most of which are probably deleted by now, try searching for the music of these countries on Amazon.

Also, take a look at World Jukebox which allows you to download vintage and impossibly rare recordings of ethnic music from all over the world.

Subject: RE: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Mar 13 - 05:21 PM

Ukrainian klezmer: Konsonans Retro (nothing quite that recent)

Croatia's entry for Eurovision 2013: Klapa s Mora (yuck)

Subject: Searching Music from Greece and Turkey
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Mar 13 - 03:18 PM

Hello

I'm looking for musical recommendations from any genre from Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and/or Croatia.

I'm especially looking for music released in the last year or so as it's for a paticular project.

All recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks

A.W