Flamenco Allaturca

[robinturner]

Those who enjoy unusual musical syntheses, or just like good singing and guitar, should check out the website of Öykü and Berk, a pair of twins who perform Turkish folk songs Flamenco style.

Comments

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

A pair of twins?!

[solri.livejournal.com]

I had to think for a moment of what the collective noun should be for twins, and settled on pair, since that's used for shoes, socks, eyes and other things that come in twos. But it would be better if there were a more imaginative collective noun, e.g. "a confusion of twins".

[alsoname.livejournal.com]

I was attempting to be a snot-nosed smartypants, but I failed utterly. I was just trying to point out what I perceived to be a redundancy -- pair of twins. Though actually I like "confusion of twins" much better.

Collect the whole set!

[kristian.livejournal.com]

I always thought the term was a Set of Twins. A set of triplets, etc.

How odd is that; let me count the ways!

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Check my work on this: Flamenco is Roma music, yes? And Turkey, surely, saw Roma culture long before Spain, no?

So *blink* I can only imagine the sythesis taking place there. No, wait ... I can't imagine ... yes, wait ... yes, I can, a bit.

wow ... that must be amazing.

Confusion is the right idea, but ...

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

... *a moment to set my pedant's gown low on my shoulders* wouldn't the more precise term for that make it a confound of twins?
*snort*
'scuze me.

Re: How odd is that; let me count the ways!

[(Anonymous)]

Flamenco is indeed Roma, and Roma provide a lot of Turkey's best musicians; in fact, what comes to mind when you think of "Turkish music" (the kind you hear played in cafes in films set in Turkey, for example) is probably Istanbul Roma. And of course there is a strong Arabic influence on both Turkish and Spanish music. So it's not surprising that Flamenco goes down well over here.

The other big cross-fertilisation is with Greek music. When we were in the Greek islands last summer, we kept hearing songs that we knew as Turkish folk songs.

Re: How odd is that; let me count the ways!

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

I may have mentioned this to you before: National Film Board (Canada) released a glorious musical montage, the history of the Roma, from N'n India through Europe to Spain and Portugal and England and from there beyond. (My X encountered them in Chile.)

Anthropologically fascinating: neither art (requires too much infrastructure / stability to produce?) nor poetry and literature (calls for too many connections with conventional bourgeois entities?) ... but music. Which, I know from experience, can quickly be turned into cash for the kids' Christmas presents.