SOAS Archive Show: Turkey Bektahci Music Thu, 2011-03-31 05:00
Achik songs by Ali Ekbar Cicek
Recordings: Kudsi Erguner
Musical Atlas ? UNESCO Collection (27)
This episode features a selection of songs from the LP ?Turkey, Bektachi Music ? a collection of ?Achik? songs, sung by Ali Ekber Cicek with saz accompaniment. Presented by Seth Richardson.
Side A
1a ?Set no traps for him who loves? (Kul Sergen
1b ?Covet not this world?s goods? (Asik Engin)
2 ?I have professed love for fourteen thousand years? (Sidki)
3 ?Weep not, mine eyes, God is merciful? (Pir Sultan Abdal)
4 ?Our way lies through the land of nostalgia? (Asik Garib)
Side B
5 ?Physician, lay not your hand upon my wound? (Sadik)
6 ?Be proud of your beauty: are you Joseph of Canaan?? (Fuzuli)
7 ?Arise my heart, look to Hussein?
8 ?I have come into the world to mend it? (Noksani)
9 ?From high above I have followed the footprints of my beloved
10 ?Bektachi dance melody (Sema melody)