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01. SELDA - Galdı Galdı
02. SELDA - Almanya Acı Vatan
03. SELDA - Yiğit Muhtaç Olmuş Kuru Soğana
04. SELDA - Sorsunlar Beni
05. SELDA - Ona Dön
06. SELDA - Hele Yar
07. SELDA - Ayağında Kundura
08. SELDA - Ah Ne Olur Bizim Köyde
09. SELDA - Hızır Paşa
10. SELDA - Cenderme
11. SELDA - İzin İze Benzemiyor
12. SELDA - Kıymayın Efendiler
ARTIST
TITLE
Selda
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PHS 018CD PHS 018CD
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RELEASE DATE
2/4/2014

Reduced price, last copies... Imagine if Julia Child had marched against Vietnam, stood on the steps of the Pentagon, and placed a flower in a gun barrel. Selda Bağcan's later records have that same cross of easygoing motherly warmth and righteous anger. This 1979 album (technically her fourth, although six of these songs were also released on her third), 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 and bağlamas 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 and completely unique. Her reward was the love of Turkey's people, but also nine trials and three prison terms from the right wing military government of the '80s. Remastered sound, insert/booklet with liner notes.