HÜ: CEM YILDIZ / SMADJ | Booking Worldwide
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.Cem Yıldız who has a background in Turkish Folk Music undertook this special project. The project got its final shape by the contributions of Jean Pierre Smadj, French musician of Tunisian origin, who has released many albums and taken place in various projects over Europe and Turkey, and Uzbek composer and arranger Rüstem Mahmudov. All songs in this project are compositions of Alevi folksongs and aphorisms.
HU can be interpreted as a modern day reappearance of the tradition where “Old Time Minstrels” used to come together to practice music and engage in battles of poetic repartee. In fact the Alevi culture, just as described in the folksongs and aphorisms, is always in a state of exile. It is due to this fact that the Alevi culture has always received the other Anatolian cultures with open arms, and has both influenced and been influenced.
The fact that these unbounded musicians, who come from different ethnic cultures, come together in sounding the “HÜ”, signifies the solidarity and indulgence music creates in our spiritual worlds…
Cem Yıldız Vocal,Baglama,electronics.
Smadj Ud, samplers, electronics
Erkan Tekci Kaval, Cura
Hogır Percussions
Discography
HU (Released March 2010)
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