DİYARBAKIR EYVAN GECELERİ
NIGHTS OF DİYARBAKIR EYVAN
Koçer Production, 2000
This tape was produced by Ali Aktaş who was also the leader of the band. 13 musicians and singers are present on this recording with bağlama, keyboards, kaval, mey, nagara and davul. The singers perform in ''koro'' but A. Aktaş and Remzi Bal have 3 songs each as soloists. Such a band could be qualified as folkloric but as it is the case for many bands in Turkey they are close enough to the folk tradition. The keyboard is used mostly as a bass-drone and is discreet enough.
Diyarbakır is located in South-East Turkey where Kurdish people are still a majority. But all the songs are sung in Turkish although some of the tunes sound Kurdish. The repertoire is made of traditional songs from the area, Erzurum, Urfa, Central Anatolia and compositions by Pir Sultan Abdal and Celal Güzelses.
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