Ah, the leaves have fallen off the trees. The days are getting shorter. The chronic depression is setting in. All of this can mean only one thing: Thanksgiving is coming! And in celebration of "turkey day," Open World Music takes you - where else? - to Turkey. Doing research for this first musical foray into the gateway between east and west was both fun and challenging. It was fun because I found all manor of really interesting bands. It was challenging because many of the bands I really liked use really common names, and when I Google them to get more information I come up with all sorts of irrelevant sites. When I Google them with the descriptor "Turkey," I come up with all sorts of irrelevant
and bizarre sites.
But then I came up with Aydilge, and her song
Takıntı. Aydilge comes from a rich lineage of poets and writers, and she has taken that background to work as a singer and songwriter. As with much of the other popular Turkish music that I have discovered,
Takıntı is an exciting blend of western rock and middle eastern rhythms.
