'HONEYED HALF' is BIKINI-CLAD TURKISH GIRLS DRIVING CRANES and BELLY DANCING in the BLACK SEA - As ISLAMICISTS overtun the 90 YEAR SECULAR VEIL BAN of TURKEY in 2013 - Let us CELEBRATE KEMAL ATATÜRK'S SECULAR TURKISH REPUBLIC in STYLE! [Click 'Show more' for full analysis] ABDULLAH KARAMAN is an EXTREMELY TALENTED artists from KARADENIZ or BLACK SEA MUSIC of TURKEY. The BLACK SEA centre for MUSIC is TRABZON and RİZE cities respectively. They are on the NORTH EAST COAST of TURKEY opposite RUSSIA. TRABZON is more of an URBAN BUSINESS hub with great creativity, beautiful food, nightclubs, drinking a lot of alcohol and reportedly the largest number of PROSTITUTES [allegedly from RUSSIA?] of any city in TURKEY. Interestingly enough, PRIME MINISTER of the ISLAMIC PARTY, ERDOĞAN hails from this METROPOLIS of FUN, DANCING and MUSIC up the coast in RIZE which is famous for growing delicious TURKISH TEA in hilly tea gardens in the hot humid summer weather. Both RİZE and TRABZON are AVID CENTRES for LAZ MUSIC, LAZ being a local GEORGIAN-DERIVED LANGUAGE which has sadly declined in the area due to the promotion of the NEW TURKISH LANGUAGE. It still exists in the VILLAGES and hopefully the people will, like the WELSH, try to revive the LAZ LANGUAGE through PROJECTS to teach YOUTH the dialect. LAZ POPULAR MUSIC LAZ MUSIC is a style of FOLK or usually FOLK-POP MUSIC in TURKEY and is mainly sung in TURKISH rather than the local language nowadays. The music has two main styles...TÜRKÜ which means a sad BALLAD and the other is FAST COMICAL STYLES with ridiculous words making fun of local or sometimes with LAZ SINGERS like İSMAİL TÜRÜT, songs that are NATIONAL TOPIC POLITICAL like his song 'KRİZ' in 2000 concerning alleged THEFT of PUBLIC FUNDS by the GOVERNMENT that caused an economic collapse in TURKEY at that time. But the song had lyrics telling the horrified TURKISH PUBLIC to, "REJOICE AND HOPE THIS IS OUR BEST AND BIGGEST CRISIS YET!"...such is the nature of some COMIC LAZ SONGS. THE HORON Apart from great TALENT, STYLE and PRIDE in their FOLK and POP-FOLK MUSIC in the BLACK SEA REGION, they also have an OUTSTANDING FOLK DANCE called 'THE HORON'. It is a fast and FURIOUS dance with SHAKING the SHOULDERS on the AXIS of the BACK with the ARMS HANGING outstretched. There is tremendous COMPLICATED FOOTWORK and it is done in a LINE formation. The SHAKING motion is said to have come from the movement of ANCHOVY fish in the sea. The dance has migrated to GREECE and even as far away as IRELAND some observers quote. INSTRUMENTS of LAZ MUSIC KERMANÇE is a three stringed FIDDLE with a MIDDLE RANGE and SHARP TIMBRE ZURNA is a traditional OBOE TULUM is a traditional DRONELESS BAGPIPE ABDULLAH KARAMAN Biographical information on this LAZ ARTIST is not available. KARAMAN in from the BLACK SEA AREA. He has a number of LIVE TV and WEDDING PERFORMANCES Online and a number of POP VIDEOS and FOUR CDs. ABDULLAH KARAMAN is a TALANTED MUSICIAN in the STUDIO rather than LIVE. He has an ability to CREATE a thick 'wall of sound' with the MULTI-TRACK STUDIO and RECORD his VOCALS in CREATIVE WAYS with DOUBLE TRACKING and CHORUSING that make for really quite UNIQUE and SUMPTUOUS AURAL experiences of LAZ MUSIC, which can be quite STARK and even HARSH in TIMBRE. KARAMAN'S album 'CANANIN'['LOVE OF MY LIFE'] has a WIDE VARIETY of LAZ SONGS presented in such DIVERSE and RICH FORMATS. KARAMAN has really FLAIR for LAZ MUSIC in the STUDIO and is sadly not CELEBRATED in TURKISH MUSIC CULTURE as he should be, probably due to SNOBBERY and 'KRO' CULTURE ['KRO' being a word from the cities as a put-down for not recording Western style music]. 'BALLI YARİM' is a much more RECENT song of KARAMAN. It has the frequent COMIC PARODY ELEMENT of ABDULLAH as an older gentleman but driving along in his sports car as a 'PLAYBOY' and dreaming of all of these YOUNG BEAUTIES in BIKINIS who are BELLY DANCING in the BLACK SEA and on CRANES. BELLY DANCE, ARABIC MUSIC and LAZ POP 'HONEYED HALF' is a SYNTHESIS between LAZ FAST SYLLABLE LYRICS that follow the STROKES of the KERMANÇE and BRIDGES and CADENCES [musical full stops making the ends of phrases and sections] that have ARABIC-STYLE STRINGS and ZURNA OBOE that allow the GIRLS opportunties to SHAKE to the HORON BEAT and SLITHER their bodies to the ARABIC SEDUCTIVE GLIDINGS...This HYBRID of ARABIC and LAZ was first heard in the 2000s in the CD 'LAZEDEKE' which was purely INSTRUMENTAL dance music. Later DAVUT GÜLOĞLU produced LAZ POP albums that combined LAZ + ARABIC and LAZ + PUNJABI BHANGRA. STRINGS that are NOT VIOLINS The CURIOUS thing in 'BALLI YARİM' is that the 'STRINGS' we hear seem to be KERMANÇE played as VIOLINS rather than actual ORCHESTRAL STRINGS. This is done by MULTI-TRACKING the same player many times and then mixing the recordings together. This was done first by LAZ singer CİMILLİ İBO on his 2002 'HASRET HEPİMİZ' album.

• published: 13 Oct 2013
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