Collaborations: Zerina Cokoja and Mercan Dede with "Moj Dilbere Kud Se Seces"

Today's random song is by Zerina Cokoja and features Mercan Dede. I couldn't get much about Zerina Cokoja except that she was a model and singer in the former Yugoslavia and Bosnia Herzogovina. She moved to Germany during the Yugoslavian civil war but did not achieve much success with her music despite the Bosnian diaspora that was also settling there. However, after the war her music saw a resurgence and she has been performing traditional music. She collaborates on this tune with Mercan Dede, also known as DJ Arkin Allen, a composer, player of the ney (a Turkish flute) and the bendir (a hand drum). He fuses traditional Turkish acoustic music and other eastern styles with electronic sounds, horns, dance beats and his Sufi spirituality. This song, Moj Dilbere Kud Se Seces, can be found on the various artists compilation Homegrown Istanbul, Volume 1 (2006).

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