The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935 (Various Artists)

Artista: Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels / Various

Formato: CASSETTES

Gravadora/Label: DINT

Catalogo: 127

Faixas: 1.1 Hafiz Sadettin Kaynak – Falling Into the Flames of Heartbreak
1.2 Hfiz Burhan – Everywhere Is Darkness
1.3 Hafiz Kemal Bey – the Moment I Saw You
1.4 Hoca Izak Algazi – If I Gave My Heart to You
1.5 Hafiz Sadettin Kaynak – I Fell in Love
1.6 Hafiz Kemal Bey – the Sky Cries
1.7 Hafiz Sadettin Kaynak – the Pain of Separation
1.8 Tarsuslu Abdülkerim – I Waited for So Many Nights
1.9 Hafiz Kemal Bey – a Gaze That Gathers the Blossoms of Longing
1.10 Bursali Hamid Bey – I Became the Guardian of My Own Gaze
1.11 Hafiz Kemal Bey – the Dagger of Gazes
1.12 Hoca Izak Algazi – My Heart’s Sole Longing Was to Find It’s Harbor Through Love
1.13 Hafiz Kemal Bey – with Longing Because of This
1.14 Hafiz Sadettin Kaynak – O My Beloved, Drunk with Your Own Charm, Who Raised You to Be So Fearless

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.