ALI C. GEDIK
1. Yeni Türkü, “Telli telli”
From: Yeni Türkü, Akdeniz Akdeniz. Göksoy Plakçılık 86-34-U-116, 1982, 33⅓ rpm.
Credits (for the complete album):
Selim Atakan: piano, flute, kanun, accordion; Derya Köroğlu: solo vocal, guitar, drums; Murat Buket: ud, guitar, drums, vocal; Tuğrul Bayrak: bass; Tuncer Tercan: solo vocal, bağlama; Eftal Küçük: buzuki, kemençe, guitar; Zerrin Atakan: solo vocal.
The song is a Turkish version of Greek song, “Teli Teli Teli” by Manos Loïzos and Turkish lyrics by Turkish poet Murathan Mungan.
2. Ezginin Günlüğü, “Çamdan sakız akıyor”
From: Ezginin Günlüğü, Seni düşünmek. Ezginin Günlüğü Müzik Yapımevi, 1985, 33⅓ rpm.
Credits (for the complete album):
Vedat Verter: bağlama; Nadir Göktürk: cura; Atilla Altınkeser: bass; Kent Mete: cello; Göksun Doğan: clarinet Güneş Uras: flute; Cüneyt Duru: guitar; Erhan Pamukbezerci: percussion; Hüseyin Kaya: piano; Tanju Duru: twelve-string guitar, acoustic guitar, bass; violin, Cem Doğan: viola; Emin İgüs: vocal; Şebnem Başar: vocal.
This is a folk song from first album of the group. Lyrics has no political or ethnical implications. However, it is one of the folk songs performed and recorded by Ruhi Su whom is the first musician of left movement within popular music, a decade ago.
3. Bulutsuzluk Özlemi, Bulutsuzluk özlemi
Piccatura, 1986, audio cassette.
Credits (for the complete album):
Nejat Yavaşoğulları: guitar, vocal; Sina Koloğlu: grand piano; Kanöz Ozan: bass, back vocal; Buğra Uğur: synthesizer; Halis Bütünley: drum, back vocal; Derya Yener guitar.
This is the first album of the group founded in 1984. One of the dramatic changes in political music after the coup in 1980 was the end of the musical synthesis embodied in Anadolu Pop which disappeared in its fragmentation into Turkish rock and folk. The first appearance of Turkish rock on the political music scene was Bulutsuzluk Özlemi.
4. Çağdaş Türkü, Bekle beni
Ada Müzik AYM 601, 1986. audio cassette / 33⅓ rpm.
Credits (for the complete album):
Eftal Küçük: guitar, kemençe; Erkan Oban: fretless bass guitar; Tolga Çandar: bağlama, vocal, Bahadır Suda: piano.
This is the first album of the group founded in 1984. Çağdaş Türkü performed their own compositions rather than traditional songs, even though they used the bağlama.
5. Grup Yorum, “Haziranda ölmek zor”
From: Grup Yorum, Haziranda ölmek zor. Cem, 1991, audio cassette.
Credits (for the complete album):
Serdar Keskin: acoustic guitar, vocal; Tuncay Akdoğan: cura, vocal; Metin Kahraman: bağlama, vocal; Cem Doğan: bass guitar; Ejder Akdeniz: classical guitar, vocal; Kemal Gürel: flute, kaval, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, synthesizer, vocal; Efkan Şeşen: lead vocal; İlkay Akkaya: lead vocal; Taci Uslu: organ, synthesizer.
This song is composed by Hüsnü Arkan and lyrics are taken from a poem of Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil, a leading poet of left movement. It is one of the most popular songs of the left movement.
6. Grup Kızılırmak, “Üç beş kişi”
From: Geçmişten geleceğe Pir Sultan Abdal. Nepa Müzik Yapım, 1990, compact disc.
Credits (for the complete album):
Arranged by Kızılırmak
İsmail İlknur: bağlama, vocal, cura; Coşkun Aksel: bass; Osman Aktaş: kaval; İlkay Akkaya: vocal; Tuncay Akdoğan: vocal, acoustic guitar, classical guitar.
This song is from the second album of the group, completely based on Alevi folk music. Lyrics are believed to be written by Pir Sultan Abdal, a Turkish Alevi poet and a rebellion against Ottoman rule lived during 16th c. Music is an outstanding anoymous example of Alevi folk music tradition and the song has been used frequently by left movement since 1960s.
7. Grup Kızılırmak, “Hayali gönlümde”
From: Gidenlerin ardından, Ses Plak 023, 1992, audio cassette.
Credits (for the complete album):
İlkay Akkaya: vocal, lead vocal; Tuncay Akdoğan: vocal, acoustic guitar, classical guitar; İsmail İlknur: bağlama, vocal, cura.
The original title of the song is “Onbeşlere ağıt” (The Lament for the Fifteens) written and composed by Ruhi Su in 1940s. The song is dedicated to fifteen members of the central committee of Türkiye Komünist Partisi (Communist Party of Turkey), including its president Mustafa Suphi whom were all murdered on the Black Sea in 28 January 1921, almost a year after the foundation of the party.
8. Grup Kızılırmak, “Hayat denilen”
From: Gidenlerin ardından, Ses Plak 023, 1992, audio cassette.
Credits (for the complete album):
İlkay Akkaya: vocal, lead vocal; Tuncay Akdoğan: vocal, acoustic guitar, classical guitar; İsmail İlknur: bağlama, vocal, cura.
This song, known as Avusturya İşçi Marşı (Austrian Worker’s March) is one of the most popular marches of left movement in Turkey. While it seems to be a Turkish version of “Die Arbeiter von Wien” (Workers of Vienna), the origin of the song is a Soviet march, The Red Army is the Strongest, written and composed during the civil war. Musa Anter, one of the leading Kurdish intellectuals murdered in 1992, reads a poem of a leftist poet, Ataol Behramoğlu before the song starts.
9. Grup Kızılırmak, “Urfa’nın etrafı”
From: Pir Sultan Abdal’dan Nesimi’ye Anadolu türküleri, Son Müzik, 1994, compact disc.
Credits (for the complete album):
İsmail İlknur: bağlama, cura, vocal; İsmail Soyberk: bass; Serdar Erbaşı: hollo bendir; Tuncay Akdoğan: classic guitar, acoustic guitar, vocal; Yaşar Aydın: percussion, vocal; Cengiz Akataş: synthesizer, keyboards, vocal; İlkay Akkaya: vocal, lead vocal.
Although “Urfa’nın etrafı” (The Surroundings of Urfa) is a very popular anonymous folksong, and has no political implications, group’s recording was banned by the State. However, performance of the same song by anyone else was completely unrestricted and the song was performed by many famous musicians around the same time.
10. Grup Kızılırmak, “Yılkı”
From: Yılkı. Seyhan Müzik, 2005, compact disc.
Credits (for the complete album):
Arranged by Kızılırmak
İlkay Akkaya: vocal; İsmail İlknur: bağlama; Volkan Öktem: drum; İsmail Soyberk: bass; Şeyhmus Fidan: classic guitar, acoustic guitar; Mehmet Akatay: percussion; Çağlar Yavuz: piano; Mustafa Süder: viola, clarinet; Turgay Özdemir: flute; Ertan Tekin: duduk; Murat Toraman: kaval; Nejat Özgür: garmon; Engin Aslan: tambur; Ersin Baykal: kabak kemane; Hüsamettin Küçük: mandolin.
A song from the final album of the group. However, the group survived in concerts especially under the name of İlkay Akkaya and sometimes beside her name. The album and the song is characterized by lack of political poetry for lyrics, and performance of certain instruments in particular ways which are quite unfamiliar to political music. Both the title of the song and album, yılkı means a hourse which is disused and left alone when it is old, reflecting a pessimist political mood.
11. Kardeş Türküler, “Cukhdag Mom”
From: Hemâvâz, Kalan Müzik CD 263, 2002, compact disc.
Credits (for the complete album):
Ülker Uncu: accordion; Işın Kucur: acoustic guitar; Erol Mutlu: bağlama [şelpe], vocal; Enver Timuçin: clarinet; Göksun Çavdar: clarinet; Rıza Okçu: contrabass; Eyüp Hamiş: kaval; Mehmet Erdem: ud; Diler Özer: percussion; Soner Akalın: percussion; Selda Öztürk: percussion, vocal; Feryal Öney: soloist, vocal; Neriman Güneş: violin; Ertan Tekin: zurna, duduk.
This is an Armanian folk song compiled by Garo Çalıkyan.