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(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.

 

In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.

 

Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana). 

 

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Uqausit nuqqangatitaujut sikumut

 

(Tanya Tagaq Gillis is an Inuit throat singer from Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She first began to practice throat singing after attending school, and later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.

 

Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

 

Her innovative, solo style of throat singing seeks to push the boundaries of emotion and to express the primitive instincts she believes still reside deep within our flesh. She describes her evolution over the past six years as a process of going deeper and deeper into her performance to the point where she virtually “leaves her body” and lets the expression take over).

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Bilinmeyene doğru bir yürüyüş

 

(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.

 

In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.

 

Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana).

 

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Atalardan kalma gelenekleri modernize etmek

 

(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.

 

In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.

 

Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana). 

 

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שירים מהמדבר

 

(Berry Sakharof  (ברי סחרוף) is an Israeli rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Sakharof was born in Izmir, Turkey on 7 July 1957. He immigrated to Israel with his family when he was three years old. Sakharof's career as a recording artist started in Belgium as an original member of the post-punk band Minimal Compact. He was half of the duo Fortis Sakharof and has released numerous solo and collaborative albums since 1991, with several reaching certified gold or platinum status in Israel.

 

Dudu Tassa (Tel-Aviv, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer of Mizrahi Jewish descent. Besides having had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al-Kuwaity, since 2011).

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Ode d'amour à mère nature

 

(Lůn is a French one-woman project leaded by multi-instrumentist, musician, composer, researcher  and dancer Mayline Gautié; her music is related to nature, elements, vital energy and mysticism. Through its invented language and by merging neoclassical music, world & neofolk music, Lůn brings and opens to the exploration of new worlds).

 

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海のリズムに従って

 

(Rough Guide to the Best Japanese Music You've Never Heard is a Japanese modern music compiled by English Music Rough Guides label).

 

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الرقص على الرمال المغلية

 

(Oriental Rare Groove (Rare Funky Songs From The Arabic World) is an Arabian Funk/Folk compilation made by French label Wagram Music).

 

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Türk efsanelerinin şarkıları

 

(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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Sıcak kumların üzerinde dans etmek

 

(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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Perdeleri gökyüzüne fırlat

 

(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

 

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them. 

 

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").

 

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Ode till de förtrollade skogarna

 

(Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music).

 

 

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Geri dönüşü olmayan bir veda için

 

(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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Kutsal geleneklere haraç

 

(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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Cantos para los guardianes de los Andes

 

(Yma Sumac (Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, 1922 - 2008) was a Peruvian soprano. She has also been called Queen of Exotica and is considered a pioneer of World music; blessed with a five-octave range, was presented by her composer/arranger Moises Vivanco as an Inca princess when she recorded Voice Of the Xtabay (1950), arranged by Les Baxter.

 

She had been born in the mountains near Cuzco, was discovered by Vivanco in 1947 (who was already an established composer) and married by him at 15, she debuted in Lima the same year; in 1949 the couple moved to the USA, where he successfully created a myth around the singer).

 

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Thousand and one hallucination nights

 

(The Rough Guide To Psychedelic India is a Psychedelic/Folk/World compilation made by English World Music Network label).

 

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Ataların ritimlerini onurlandırmak

 

(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

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Atalara saygıdan

 

(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

 

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النبوءة تأتي مع المطر

 

(Raed Yassin (Beirut, 1979) is a Lebanese video, sound and visual artist, also works as a musician: (double bass, tapes and electronics), and a part-time curator. Graduated from the Theatre Department in the Lebanese University in Beirut, he works with image, music, text and concept. His work based on themes related to the media, the city, the history of contemporary art, arabic cinema, pornography, pop culture, disasters, and archives. Currently he lives and works in Amsterdam).

 

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Doft av gamla skogar

 

(Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music).

 

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