A hot Greek rebetiko ballad.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion

Garip Özdem & Candaş Erdener: sound engeneering.

Recorded at Schlesische 27. 
Internationales JugendKunst und Kulturhaus,
Berlin.
March 2016



To Ferece



A passionate Zazaki ballad.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion

Garip Özdem & Candaş Erdener: sound engeneering.

Recorded at Schlesische 27.
Internationales JugendKunst und Kulturhaus,
Berlin.
March 2016


Tew Veyvike



A revisited Mashriq traditional song.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion

Garip Özdem & Candaş Erdener: sound engeneering.

Recorded at Schlesische 27.
Internationales JugendKunst und Kulturhaus,
Berlin.
March 2016


Fog El Nakhal

The crazy atmosphere of the last songs from the live concert at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin.
May 27 2016.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion 

Ah Ya Zein - Live at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin. 05-27-2016

Beginning the live concert at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin.
May 27 2016.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion

To Ferece - Live at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin. 05-27-2016

An instrumental song from the concert at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin.
May 27 2016.

Serdar Saydan: percussion
Michelangelo Severgnini: contrabass
Wasim Ghrioui: vocal
Daisam Jalo: oud
Mikail Yakut: accordion

Çeçen Kızı -  Live at Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin. 05-27-2016

In 1903 an ambitious project was inaugurated, that was supposed to unite, in the intentions of the founders, the cities of Berlin and Baghdad with a railway line of about 4,500 km across Germany (then German Empire), Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary (then together under Austro-Hungarian Empire), Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria and finally Iraq (the latter three countries then united under the Ottoman Empire). The vicissitudes of history and the high costs of the project prevailed over the visionary intentions of the creators and the construction of the railway, after a few decades, when the construction was almost completed, was abandoned.
In summer 2015, a group of musicians from some of these countries, met in Berlin to share a musical repertoire, combined with new compositions, which continues along the path of this ghost train that now belongs only to the imagination.
The repertoire of the group currently proposes "Klezmer" ballads (Yiddish music of the Jewish community in Germany and Hungary), the "Hora" (gypsy music with a frenzied pace from Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia), the "Rebetiko" (Greek music born in Ottoman times from the encounter between Byzantine music and Oriental "makam"), the "Hava" (typical compositions of the most outrageous clubs of the Ottoman Empire) as well as "Köçek" (music named after dancers dressed as women, who cheered the vaudeville in the Ottoman cities), and then ballads from Kurdistan, Armenia and Chechnya, rearrangements of popular heritage of "Asık" (sort of troubadours in perpetual artistic pilgrimage between Anatolia and Persia) up to Syrian and Arab songs and "Nihavend" (ballads of Persian origin).
All mixed within the Berlin frame, now free port of the international diaspora from these countries, where, due to political instability or real war, thousands of people and artists find refuge.

Berlin-Bagdad Bahn

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