VA - To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul (2010)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 436 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 247 MB
1:46:49 | Ottoman Classical, Folk | Label: Honest Jon's Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 436 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 247 MB
1:46:49 | Ottoman Classical, Folk | Label: Honest Jon's Records
"From the first three decades of the twentieth century, the music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. Drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, To Scratch Your Heart crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country-people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system.