Remember that cool Oran Gencebay clip I posted a couple months ago? Turkish singers are the sultry best! Since I don't understand Turkish (I did however teach myself over 100 words in Turkish during a 3-week visit), I didn't have any hard facts for you about this film or the singer.
Lucky us, though. Soner wrote me with this wealth of information about Gencebay and Aski Ben Mi Yarattim, the film this clip is from. It's super interesting:
Let me give some details about the video you post. It's a scene from the movie Aski Ben Mi Yarattim ("Did I Create The Love?" or "Am I The One Created The Love?"). It was released in 1980.
Here's Orhan Gencebay filmography:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The redhead in the movie is Mujde Ar. In the movie she is acting a role of a prostitute. The passport you mentioned in your post is actually her authorization licence to prostitute. The movie is about the love between a prostitute (Mujde Ar) who wants to get rid of this job to start a new life, and a singer (Orhan Gencebay) that tries to save her because he loves her.
The song in the scene is Bulamadik ki ("So We Couldn't Find"), claiming that he couldn't find the love and the happiness in his life yet. The song is from the longplay album in 1980 called Aski Ben Yaratmadim.
http://www.diskotek.arkaplan.
Here's Orhan Gencebay discography:
http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Here's the original song Bulamadik Ki in the scene with a cleaner record: http://rapidshare.com/files/
Çok teşekkür ederim, Soner!
25 May 2009
Orhan Gencebay in Aski Ben Mi Yarattim
Depeche Mode and K&D - Useless
I never got into Depeche Mode but my sister did. She was also really into the color peach at that time. Then later later later I went through a phase of constantly listening to my coworker Stacy's copy of K&D Sessions while on the job. There's an amazing remix of Useless on there that always made me think I had missed out on the Mode. That guy is a good singer. They are so funnily serious here in this video and I like how the babe mysteriously materializes at the end. But now they've got a new album out and they're supposed to be touring but canceled because Dave Gahan (AKA that guy the good singer) is sick. That's a bummer.
Kruder Dorfmeister - Useless
21 May 2009
Bobby Conn and The Chain Played Together a While Back
What's going on? Why hasn't there been a post on here for weeks? No answer.
The last music-y thing I did or listened to was a show at which Bobby Conn and The Chain played. Bobby Conn and Monica Bou Bou experimented with some new songs using laptop backup. I liked this pared-down show with just her violin, his guitar, and their solid singing. The Chain played a good show too. They recently put a page up with some MP3s and have thus entered the realm of the Internet. I think they should use the Thai letter "saw soo" and its accompanying image for a t-shirt or something, because "soo" means chain and Thai letters are cool looking.
