I chose the video above for visual effect because it is the music video, but I recommend playing the video below if you want a better quality (by far) listen:
I'm trying not to post too much Turkish music here as I want to preserve variety, but it was impossible to ignore this song when I heard it. In truth I have a lot of Tilbe's albums, and even the one that this song is from, but I'm an avid user of the "shuffle" option on my mp3 player which means sometimes I don't hear all the tracks of a given album. So I only just heard this today and was pretty much wowed. From what I can gather the title means "Commemoration of a friend" but I haven't looked at the actual lyrics. No, I am wowed by the awesome instrumentation! This is why I love Turkish music: the chord progression is quite simple and very typical of Turkish songs, but there's this wonderful rock kick to it that I love. The sound to me is very reminiscent of 60s rock-pop tunes, but the added violins and Tilbe's voice make it a little more modern and unique. I wouldn't think to listen to a Tilbe song with electric guitars in it, but here I can really see how her voice works well with it's kind of gravelly quality. Tilbe has a tendency to be one of those weepy singers (she is not the queen of this, note; the queen of the weepy voice is Umut Ayürek) but her voice is totally in the right mode here. Love it.
I'm trying not to post too much Turkish music here as I want to preserve variety, but it was impossible to ignore this song when I heard it. In truth I have a lot of Tilbe's albums, and even the one that this song is from, but I'm an avid user of the "shuffle" option on my mp3 player which means sometimes I don't hear all the tracks of a given album. So I only just heard this today and was pretty much wowed. From what I can gather the title means "Commemoration of a friend" but I haven't looked at the actual lyrics. No, I am wowed by the awesome instrumentation! This is why I love Turkish music: the chord progression is quite simple and very typical of Turkish songs, but there's this wonderful rock kick to it that I love. The sound to me is very reminiscent of 60s rock-pop tunes, but the added violins and Tilbe's voice make it a little more modern and unique. I wouldn't think to listen to a Tilbe song with electric guitars in it, but here I can really see how her voice works well with it's kind of gravelly quality. Tilbe has a tendency to be one of those weepy singers (she is not the queen of this, note; the queen of the weepy voice is Umut Ayürek) but her voice is totally in the right mode here. Love it.
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