E506 | Refik Halid Karay (1889-1965) was a writer, bureaucrat, and political exile whose life spanned the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Christine Philliou traces his life as well as a genealogy of political opposition more broadly in her new book Turkey: A Past Against History. Following Refik Halid between his exiles in Sinop, Syria, and elsewehre as well as his momentous encounter with Mustafa Kemal in the Telegraph Episode, Philliou sheds light on the complicated transition between empire and nation. She also grapples with the challenge of telling history based on the voluminous and often satirical musings of a figure himself deeply invested in interpreting the past. 

More at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Christine Philliou is professor in the History Department, Director of the Modern Greek and Hellenic Studies Program at the Institute for European Studies, and Director of the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program at the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley. Her first book was Biography of an Empire (2010, UC Press; Greek edition forthcoming 2021 with Alexandria Publications) and her new book is Turkey: A Past Against History (2021, UC Press).

Sam Dolbee is a lecturer on History and Literature at Harvard University. His research is on the environmental history of the late Ottoman Empire told through the frame of locusts in the Jazira region.

Brittany White is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. Broadly, she is interested in the African Diaspora in former Ottoman territories.

CREDITS 

Episode No. 506
Release Date: 16 July 2021
Recording Location: Kensington, CA / Somerville, MA / New York, NY
Sound production by Sam Dolbee
Script by Brittany White and Sam Dolbee
Additional thanks to Chris Gratien
Music: Zé Trigueiros, "Petite Route," "Saez," "Big Road of Burravoe"
Images and bibliography courtesy of Christine Philliou available at https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/07/halit.html

Refik Halit: A Life of Opposition | Christine Philliou

Serin Evler - İçinden (with Mehmet Çevik)

GMT56 Saphileaum - 'Intrapersonal Experience' Album is now available on physical cassette via our Bandcamp!

https://goodmorningtapes.bandcamp.com/merch/saphileaum-intrapersonal-experience-cassette-album

It's a continuation of Saphileaum’s previously released (& highly praised) album 'Transpersonal Experience' from 2021, and as the title suggests, these 6 tracks follow a deeper more reflective tone… Highly recommended for intimate moments lost in nature or as a daily focus aid tool.

Digital coming soon via Saphileaum's Bandcamp…

GMT56 Saphileaum - Intrapersonal Experience (Snippets)

writing & production: Jane Remover
additional guitars & bass: Douglas Dulgarian
mixing: Kayla Reagan
mastering: Hector Vega
cover art: Brendon Burton

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The sun is shining, the crickets are chirping relentlessly, the car is moving through the thick heat, the Anatolian summer in its dry and fragrant glory. Driving southeast. Stop to see ancient ruins bathed in layers of affectionate dust. You arrive when the sea shimmers blue through the pines. This is one of the many playlists for the long road ahead. All kinds of feelings in the land of distant dreams and broken hearts.

https://www.nts.live/shows/on-the-road-2023/episodes/on-the-road-2023-land-of-my-ruins-w-seda-mimaroglu-8th-august-2023

Land of My Ruins w/ Seda Mimaroğlu 080823

annie fatt & izzy frog & ste & cami KISS KISS KISS

& i'm at his friend's house
we can gossip maybe talk about 
with my hood up and jeans on
talking bout short skirts and the way i walk 
i spend all my time giving you all of mine
and i give up trying to make sense 
make you pay up
now i'm talking shhhhhh
I spend all my time
giving you all of mine 

now my friend's gone 
but im not 
took myself back to where im from 
in a raace to the finish line
MAKE YOU SWEAT IN HIGH HEELS AND A BODYCON
but my name feels right when its back to front
to spit me out iss all that you want
to waste this up is
to spend all my time 
spend all my tim e
giving you all of mine 

make you sweat in high heels 
make you sweat in high heels 
keep you sweating
watch me sweat

SPENT MY TIME

Radio Alhara and Yardsale present an hour long mix from Jerusalem-based rapper, producer and artist ABUL3EES, whose music has left a mark on the Palestinian hip hop and rap scene. 

Yardsale x NTS x Radio Alhara fundraiser tee now available via NTS and Yard Sale  
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/radio-alhara-yardsale-5th-january-2024

Radio Alhara x Yard Sale Present ABUL3EES 050124

In this take over by the label TECNOLOGÍAS ELEMENTALES (Buenos Aires / Berlin), they present a selection of Djs and live acts to introduce their second album.  This encounter took place on a very special day: April 2nd in Argentina commemorates the victims of the Malvinas War, a bloody confrontation between the neoliberal government of Margaret Thatcher and the murderous Argentine dictatorship over British-occupied territory. 
RRRKRTA is a Polish DJ known for their highly influential party called Brutaż, this legacy still lives on thanks to the label of the same name, releasing club music by like-minded adventurous producers. In this Dj set, she uses the arts of mixing as complex witchcraft spinning the sound of an abandoned future for those keen to live it or abandon it for good.

rrrkrta - Tecnologías Elementales Takeover [02.04.2024]

another winterish mixtape to warmup and downslo ..

/ tracklist

all india radio - the slow light | sula guin
dj shadow - stem | long stem
erik wollo - b) totem | c) vapor
paul horn - undercurrents
lionrock - depth
roc marciano - knock it off
isaiah rashad ft. schoolboy q - runnin’
tomaga - reverie for fragile houseplants
fumio miyashita - touch
ariwo - dasht
idris muhammad - loran’s dance

// support the artists on bandcamp and other sites

/// take it easy 2025

artwork by vladimir kush

mixtape #2

The Ethno-Wave love child of collaborators Frank Harris & Maria Marquez, Echoes compiles a collection of mid 80’s to early 90’s material sound tracking two musical dreamers. Avante-pop flourishes married to the heart strings of an imagined synthetic Amazon.

Fascinated by the rapidly emerging midi electronics of the early ‘80’s, Frank was immersed in sound work for companies such as IBM and producing the likes of Diamanda Galás around the time he began collaborating with Maria.

Envisioning a tropical Sade, the music they created more often veers towards the leftfield, revelling in the embrace of Maria’s Venezuelan roots & folklore visions in combination with the exploration of Frank’s custom Synclavier synth station (the first keyboard to incorporate 16bit sampling).

Compiled here, songs such as ‘Canto Del Pílon’ and ‘Tonada de Ordeño’ resonate with a charged future/primitive electricity that mainline Maria’s song-to-a-siren vocals with Frank’s lush sonic alchemy. On ‘Echoes’ the voice becomes instrument, found sound transforms to melody, the fragile meets the sublime, old is married to new.

Frank Harris & Maria Marquez – “Echoes” LP Strangelove SL-104

Released March 2019
180 Gram Vinyl- w/ Full Sized Insert

https://soundcloud.com/strangelovemusic

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PREMIERE : Frank Harris & Maria Marquez - Loveroom

Text by Seda Mimaroğlu, ukulele by Andreas Reihse.

Karl Marx’s 200th, Germany, Karlrecords, 2018.

28 musicians and 5 authors celebrating the 200th anniversary of philosopher and economist KARL MARX (5 May 1818) with a benefit compilation.

All revenues from the sales of the CD / DL will be donated to Obdachlosenhilfe Berlin, and Pro Asyl.

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/karl-marxs-200th

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