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selda - selda (1979) - pharaway sounds - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: World - Misc - Turkey

1. Galdi Galdi
2. Almanya Aci Vatan
3. Yigit Muhtac Olmus Kuru Sogana
4. Sorsunlar Ben
5. Ona Don
6. Hele Yar
7. Ayaginda Kundura
8. Ah Ne Olur Bizim Koyde
9. Hizir Pasa
10. Cenderme
11. Izin Ize Benzemiyor
12. Kiymayin Efendiler

Repress of Selda's 4th album, 12 tracks, comes with a remastered sound, insert / booklet with liner notes !

This 1979 album (technically her 4th, although 6 of these songs were also released on her 3rd), was recorded when Turkey was at its most politically polarized. Selda was sentenced to a total of over 500 years in prison right about the time it came out. A pile of acoustic guitars & baÄŸlamas all going off at once under a blanket of reverb, with lyrics about blood, wood, mountains, families, and desperate troubles, so it's a thick squirt for a folk album.

Selda's voice can either be sultry or really surge with emotion, and when she does belt one, it's oddly high & completely unique. Her reward was the love of Turkey's people, but also 9 trials and 3 prison terms from the right wing military government of the 80s.