Ulaş Özdemir - Traces of Âşık - Album presentation
Release on 24 March 2017 (Full Rhizome - Buda Musique)
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Âşık is a song-writer, or bard, troubadour or minstrel. For centuries, all around Anatolia, âşıks were the most important veichles who carry the collective, social and cultural memory. And in this album, I choosed poetry of âşıks from 19th century till today, which are talking about the problems, feelings, or daily life of their period. But all that issues have links with today’s life as well.
Ulaş Özdemir - Traces of Âşık - Album presentation
Album released on 24 March 2017
I’m orginally from Maraş. It’s a town between Mediteraanien and South East Anatolia regions. I’m coming from an Alevi family. But for more than 20 years I’m living in Istanbul. That’s why, all the compositions of this album have traditional inspirations from my Alevi culture, but they have the energy of Istanbul as well.
Like Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s film ‘Stalker’, I was like a stalker in this album to find the traces of âşık today. I hope that I’m on their traces and in their path…