Polyphonic Turkish Folk Music from Black Sea Region

[TheFriendlyGod]

is this actually 7/8? I count it in straight 4/4.

[hariskrijestorac]

@TheFriendlyGod Nope, it's 7/8 for sure. Try counting it as 2-2-3

[TheFriendlyGod]

@TheFriendlyGod Oh you're right for part of it. But it turns into 4/4 somewhere around 1:17.

[raifeskinat]

Nice to see but I feel sorry to see that a musical disaster is being exposed as "Turkish" with distorted "makam", "polyphonic" with no attrctive harmony. The music here may be classified as "experimental" only. The over-polyphony here has no charm at all and far from the local "sound" having a "native" polyphonic structure. On the other hand, the composition is too poor to attribute an artistic value to the performance. The only Turkish component is the 7/8 beat.

[Thomusic2]

@raifeskinat Hi Sir! I found this video by googling ''polyphonic folk music''. I was quite surprised by it, and also by your comment, which I respect. I can imagine that this is far from the 'local' sound. However, I do think that the polyphony has harmony and tonality. It is definitely experimental, for it's composition and speeding up. But it is a quality composition, and a fine performance! Any examples of real Turkish polyphonic folk music? And what is makam? Thanks!

[raifeskinat]

@Thomusic2 Hi. Unfortunately, the "official" efforts in Turkey to develop polyphony has created composers denying the original sound and reducing it to 12 scaled octave. There is no surviving polyphonic culture in Anatolia except Black Sea region, with some georgian influence . However, there are m and m polyphonic works considering to keep the original sound. Try "erkan ogur" and try to find same songs by traditional singers.

Try to find makam in wikipedia. If you need more, I can help you.

[love2understand]

FridayNightFilms1 it is very difficult to say where the people of the black sea region come from. The first settlers where Greek. Later they where combined with seltjuks, Russians, armenians, byzantines, persians and people from the Caucas.

[lazchildren17]

Soo beautiful 

[love2understand]

I am from the black sea region, I am called Laz, like Kurd. But I am proud Turkish.

All people within Turkish borders are Turkish and be proud.

[FridayNightFilms1]

@love2understand My great great grandmother was Laz, don't know much about them...are they native Anatolians? or More of a Caucus people?

[SeXyPrinZ]

well the black region is ethnically not turkish, but we have assimilated and feel 100% turkish ;) unlike the kurds

[FridayNightFilms1]

@SeXyPrinZ are Pontic Greeks still living in the North?

[TurkishRose]

@SeXyPrinZ

Speak for yourself please. There are different ethnicities living in the Black Sea region, but this doesn't mean that nobody is ethnically Turkish in that region. You're right about one thing. Being Turkish, Georgian, Circassian or Laz doesn't matter because we're all Turkish and proud of it!

[AnimalFriendSpain]

I am kemenceci with taner eypoglou in macka and with sinan sami in caykara......this say i and oll the turks in karadeniz. !!

[AnimalFriendSpain]

I am kemenceci with taner eypoglou in macka. My village is rum kabak. 14-millions rum,s live tooday in karadeniz!!! I go too next year in caykara with sinan sami ok.!!!

[TheZikkiminkoku]

@AnimalFriendSpain

total population of all black sea region is 8.4 million according to 2010 census.so how come there are 14 million rums in black sea while the total population is 8.4 million? and if you say "you are rum" to face of anyone from black sea,he will slaughter you like a cow because it is considered a "shame" to be rum there.have you ever heard "rum dölü" ? it means "rum offspring" and it is used especially by the people of black sea to humiliate rums or greeks.

[FridayNightFilms1]

@TheZikkiminkoku Bullshit man...Only spastic Nationalists would do that aka 1920's...Extremists don't belong near the Black Sea...politics have terribly fucked that region up...

[AnimalFriendSpain]

This Is Laz..... Not Turkish

[86BOZKURT86]

@AnimalFriendSpain

No;) its turkish

[BeriaMaria]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!

[alitherias]

absolutely brilliant! proud to be born there!

[glishev]

Almost Bulgarian :) I like it.

[crazzx12]

omg whats this xD

[mshefik1]

You stupid animal making comments about TURKISH culture, you should be more worried about your economy lol and stop insulting superior people like the TURKS.

Typical gaygreek

[Aegialeus]

@mshefik1

Is that Turkish ethnic culture rooted or Turkish state culture rooted?

[03Burak]

@Aegialeus ethnic culture

[Aegialeus]

@Aegialeus

LOL@U

[Sfentami]

horrible and nothing to do with Karadeniz at all

[prosvjeta]

1:20 this guy look like daniel estulin.

[djhuso]

"Yavuz is coming, Yavuz" is this song's name

[musicpeace]

I love it!

[LostLandMu]

Wonderfull

[AnoukMT2]

Very nice... especially their traditional costumes. :)

[erion628]

hahahhaha that looked like fun

[IanHunedoara8]

The singers are Lazikane?

[oytuncarsibjk]

they are Turkish

[Serpico261]

@oytuncarsibjk they are turkish? really, i thought they were from New Zealand

[oytuncarsibjk]

@Serpico261 i answered AnimalFriendSpain he/she said they are laz so ur comment is needless

[Serpico261]

@oytuncarsibjk what he said they are laz???? how dare he said that!

thank god that there are people like you who correct such outrages claims

[FridayNightFilms1]

@Serpico261 Aren't the Turks in the North very different? They are more Caucus people aren't they?

[Serpico261]

@FridayNightFilms1 actually youre right but thats totally unimportant. i mean just look at the comments, any video that has relations to some kind of history, ethnic based traditions, culture is going to be hijacked by some ignorant fools with low self esteem, to start an internet battle what is "their culture" or not. And then the whole thing starts to gettin ugly

i dont wanted to refer to you personally

[dgokce01]

kusura bakmayın ama kulağa çok da hoş gelmiyor polifonik halk müziği çok hoşuma gidiyor ama bu biraz kafa ütülüyor :/

[kzd444]

maybe he wanted somebody to ask this question.

[OorvakanSar]

lol

[biber54]

maybe he is looking to the notes

[rasitsimsek]

great colours & sounds of Anatolia...

name of this rainbow is Turkiye..