I found this piece on a Şükrü Tunar album that a Turkish friend gave me. The titles had gotten mis-matched when I got it, so I didn't know the name of it for a long time. It was the first Turkish piece for which I transcribed the lyrics myself- I did pretty well, and got a native speaker, Umut Yaşmut to help me with corrections. We both thought it must be a young Zeki Muren singing, and we were correct! This is a take that I did spontaneously when Souren Baronian (clarinet) and Adam Good (ud) were visiting New Mexico for concerts, and I coerced them and Paul Brown (bass) to join me in the studio for an afternoon. Recorded by Alex Neville at High Mayhem Studios.

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