Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mourning women's voices echo on new Kurdish-Alevi album

"Mourning women's voices echo on new Kurdish-Alevi album

Monday, April 18, 2011
VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News
Bese Aslan has worked for eight years to record the centuries-old tradition of Kurdish-Alevi laments performed for the dead for the album 'Kurdish-Alevi Laments,' released by Kalan Music. 'The recordings on the CD are from real life without any editing. Everyone rehearses their own death on the album,' Aslan says"

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