Putumayo Presents - Turkish Groove
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Artist: Putumayo PresentsEdition: Music CD
Audio: Multilingual (Unknown)
Published: 2006
CD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Product features:
- VARIOS INTERPRETES TURKISH GROOVE
- Kirmizi Biber - Bendeniz
- Kalmadi - Mustafa Sandal
- Buda - Sertab
- Pis Pisla - Nilgul
- Dudu (Ozgur Buldum Remix) - Tarkan
- Sinanay - Gulseren
- Kusursuzsun (Acoustic Version) - Emrah
- Ayrilik Gunu - Goksel
- Oha Falan Oldum Yani - Tugba Ekinci
- Atiyosun - Nazan Oncel
- Sanima Inanma - Sezen Aksu
Free Music Notes for Turkish Groove
Free Music Review: Buy the music. Hear the music. Love the music.
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a huge Turkophile. Just don't get me started, I'll bore you for hours on how amazing Turkey is. Incredible history. Sublime landscapes. Limpid seas. Beautiful weather. Exquisite food. Gracious hospitality. Some of the most beautiful women (and men, I have on good authority) in the world. One of the most poetic and beautiful languages on the planet.
Not to mention incredible music.
Ah, the music.. Until you've been at a traditional peasant wedding on the Aegean, or to a nightclub in Van where the Kurds are breaking it down the Old School Anatolian way with a traditional eight piece band, well.. you just haven't been there. You haven't really heard it. And you can't know what you're missing. No CD will replicate those sort of experiences.
Not even this one. But it comes sort of close. This disk isn't old school like the music I heard the above mentioned places. But it catches some of that same energy and soul (NB: not soul as in Marvin Gaye, but soul as in Mehmet the Conquerer & the Book of Dede Korkut.) It's froth off the top of the rich Turkish pop scene. Music that's a fusion of the traditional with international pop influences.
And contrary to our Turkish friend from Izmir commenting here, I have to say that it does make sense. It's a nice melange of tunes. A taste of modern Turkey. Afyet olsun, as they say. For someone who's never heard anything from Turkey other than maybe Tarkan, this will prove a tasty morsel. BTW, Tarkmeister's a Turkish version of Ricky Martin, only a hundred thousand nintey nine million times as good. He is the only artist with two songs on this mix.
My favorite tune here is Sinanay, a folk cover, with a great irrepressible bass line. It opens with a Latin American dude asking for directions "Donde esta Istanbul? Estoy perdido aqui!" to which the Turkish girl goes "Istanbul?" And then breaks into poetic song telling the poor goofball how to get there. Just çok comik & wicked güzel, chooch.
Atiyosun deserves special mention, as well. The lyrics- as well as I can gather with my 500 word Turkish vocabulary- are a girl telling a guy to get lost. It's bracingly laconic, relentlessly catchy.
Those are two highlights. Know that there is nary a bad track on this thing.
So buy this disk, slap it on during your next party, and everyone will dig it, I promise you. Your parents, super hip acquintances, dorky friends, annoying roomate, maiden aunt.. Everybody. Why? Because it's groovy. It's Turkish. And - Need I say it? - like all things groovy & Turkish, it rocks.
PS. And be sure to go to Turkiye someday, if only in your dreams.
The Muslims won't hurt you. And more than a few Turks will welcome, even embrace you. You will always savour & never regret it.
Turkish Groove Poster
In 2005, Putumayo?s head of A&R, Jacob Edgar traveled to Istanbul to immerse himself in Turkey?s culture and discover its music. Though its cities are filled with the ancient architecture of its long history, Turkey is considered one of the most modern Muslim countries in the world. This cultural juxtaposition is most evident in Turkey?s contemporary pop music scene, where classical traditions and instrumentation blend with sophisticated global pop and dance music. Turkish Groove, reflects this unique musical mosaic and joins the successful Groove series.Much like their Western pop counterparts, Turkish stars push the limit of their society?s standards of acceptability. As a result, Turkish pop music is crossing over to audiences outside Turkey, making inroads into the contemporary scenes of Europe and Latin America though remaining largely unknown in other parts of the world.
As Turkish pop takes its place on the international stage, its fusions of cultural traditions and modern techniques play to an ever expanding audience. Putumayo?s Turkish Groove hopes to serve as an introduction to the contemporary sounds of this culturally rich country.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this CD will be donated to Karnaval Kid in support of their efforts to improve childcare and education for disadvantaged children in Turkey.
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