V/A - The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935 LP Contemporary ” “Romantic Strings”) to sepia-tone

” “Romantic Strings”) to sepia-tone torch songs (“Shadows

influenced a generation of independent music

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the descending baritone guitar that gives “White Lilies” the gravity of an old country standard

V/A - The Pain of Separation: Turkish Gazels, 1926-1935 LP Contemporary ” “Romantic Strings”) to sepia-toneA collection of spellbinding, melismatic vocal improvisations taken from 78s cut between the mid 1920s to mid '30s a period defined by the aftermath of the Ottoman Empires partition, the Greco Turkish War and the compulsory population exchange that followed. This same period also represented a time of intense efforts, following the establishment of the Republic, to westernise the new nation's music coupled with a ban on traditional music education in