Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Romani Around: Cüneyt Sepetçi and Orchestra Dolapdere with "Gogocular"



I accidentally published tomorrow's song today. So here's the correction. We go to Turkey today for our random tune of the day. Cüneyt Sepetçi and Orchestra Dolapdere hail from the Dolapdere neighborhood near the center of Istanbul, a neighborhood populated mostly by Roma families and full of musicians who provide music for weddings, circumcisions, parades and parties. Sepetçi is a clarinet virtuoso and he and his orchestra provide a modern take on Turkish Roma classics, as well as songs from Albania, Macedonia, Spain and other areas. Albuquerque's own A Hawk and a Hacksaw met Sepetçi in 2012, and got him into a studio to cut his first album. This song, Gogoucular, is from the 2013 CD Bahriye Çiftetellisi.

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