Açış by Eva Hoogland & Giray Gürkal

In the album Açış, Giray Gürkal and Eva Hoogland interpret four Anatolian folk songs with subtlety, musical sensitivity, and an intuitive understanding of each other’s rhythmic choices—an understanding that has grown out of many years of intensive collaboration.

The album includes Havalanma Telli Turnam, composed by the great poet, troubadour, and saz player Âşık Veysel; the Alevi pieces Ey Şahin Bakışlım and Gel Akıl Beri Beri; and one Zeybek, a Western Anatolian dance form, Yağmur Yağar.

Recorded live at Theater De Kapel in Groningen.

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