Death Is Not The End
Various Artists - The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935 Various Artists
A collection of spellbinding, melismatic vocal improvisations taken from 78s cut between the mid 1920s to mid '30s - a period defined by the aftermath of the Ottoman Empire’s partition, the Greco-Turkish War and the compulsory population exchange that followed. This same period also represented a time of intense efforts, following the establishment of the Republic, to westernise the new nation's music - coupled with a ban on traditional music education in schools, and later a complete ban on broadcasting Ottoman-Turkish classical music on the radio. As such these performances seem shrouded in an even more distant past, and feel quite intimately connected with forms of Greek amanes and rebetiko - having stemmed from the same Ottoman makam system, both with a subject-matter focussed on heartbreak, yearning, and pain.
Track List
1 Falling into the Flames of Heartbreak - Hafız Sadettin Kaynak 00:03:00
2 Everywhere is Darkness - Hâfız Burhan 00:05:32
3 The Moment I Saw You - Hafız Kemal Bey 00:02:30
4 If I Gave My Heart to You - Hoca Izak Algazi 00:03:52
5 I Fell in Love - Hafız Sadettin Kaynak 00:04:05
6 The Sky Cries - Hafız Kemal Bey 00:03:42
7 The Pain of Separation - Hafız Sadettin Kaynak 00:03:58
8 I Waited for So Many Nights - Tarsuslu Abdülkerim 00:03:10
9 A Gaze that Gathers the Blossoms of Longing - Hafız Kemal Bey 00:03:01
10 I Became the Guardian of my Own Gaze - Bursalı Hamid Bey 00:03:07
11 The Dagger of Gazes - Hafız Kemal Bey 00:03:41
12 My Heart’s Sole Longing was to Find its Harbor Through Love - Hoca Izak Algazi 00:02:51
13 With Longing Because of This - Hafız Kemal Bey 00:04:04
14 O My Beloved, Drunk with Your Own Charm, Who Raised You to be So Fearless - Hafız Sadettin Kaynak 00:03:17
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