Wajd Ensemble - Music from Aleppo - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles - D'orients [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/01/2012

This record is a panorama of contemporary Turkish music. As such it includes traditional music - folk and classical - and also new popular music, in which Western, Indian och North African influences are combined. The music group Sameyda consists of six eminent Turkish musicians, all residing in Sweden at the time of this recoding. The group was founded by singer Sevinc Uygur, who also leads the group. Uygur also picked out the repertoire for the group, a great part of which she copied from the Turkish Radio's Folk Music Orchestras, a kind of modern versions of folk songs with strong melodies and rhythms. Many of the lyrics are humoristic and light spirited, built up around rhymes and jingles, and with love as a general theme.

Recorded & mixed at Sigma Sound in Philadelphia by Pamela Joy & Buddy Turner, Vocalist Pamela Joy's 1984 club smash InchThink FastInch has become a true electro-funk classic and a highly prized gem among collectors of the original 12Inch vinyl. Presented here is the original 12Inch single version featuring the original vocal and instrumental versions plus an exclusive edited version. All selections have been newly remastered.