KOMA DILAN/HALAY
KURDISH FOLK MUSIC
Umut Müzik, no date
Another tape of Kurdish music from Turkey. Here we have a band (koma) very well known which has released a good deal of tapes and CDs. The electric saz player is Şirin Esmer and the zurna player is Aziz Kurtar. There are plenty of groups of this kind in Turkey with musicians and dancers appearing on videos. Koma Dilan has backed some famous singers as well. Once again several songs are put together so I made tracks whenever it was possible. Thus on side A the first track has songs from 1 to 4, track 2 songs from 5 to 9. Side B track 3 has songs 1 and 2, track 2 songs from 3 to 9. This is commercial music in a way but still nice to listen to if you like Kurdish music in its diversity
This is great, thanks!!! It reminds me a lot of some molam cassettes like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlAFvUkY8k
ReplyDeleteHi, interesting the way you relate modern Kurdish band music to Thai/Lao molam. It's true that modernization of traditional music throughout the world implies some changes on one hand with a loss of ''integrity'' but on the other hand it allows certain traditions to survive and expand. Thanks for the link.
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