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Check out this video of songs...

mavrothis - 12-3-2007 at 03:50 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHI7GQn28ck

ud taksim at 3:54, but it's all great. the young girl Areti playing santouri and singing is a phenomenon.

mavrothis

SamirCanada - 12-3-2007 at 04:26 PM

that was awsome... great music.

Dang... she is smoking too.

Woodlandjustin - 12-3-2007 at 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by SamirCanada
that was awsome... great music.

Dang... she is smoking too.



Women in trousers is outrageous enough, but smoking too! Whatever next!

Quick question about her singing - sorry, I don't know the technical words for it, but she goes into a different style at 6:25 ~ 7:25 - so beautiful - and for that minute, what does she sing? What words? Seems to me to be not many words, very few. I ask because I would love to sing, but I don't speak Arabic or anything like that. But if there is singing with such few words, that makes it a lot simpler to learn, linguistically at least. Is that a common style? Or would they ever just sing "Allah Allah Allah" for example, or something repetitive like that, but going into nice melodies as she does?

Thank you
Justin

mavrothis - 12-3-2007 at 06:54 PM

All of the above (and she is singing in Greek). Sometimes they are singing a phrase, sometimes just a word or two to express emotion and allow for vocal improvisation.

In this case she is just singing: "Ah, aman, aman"

Aman means mercy in Turkish, which has come into Greek as well.

I'm glad you enjoyed the music.

mavrothis

Jameel - 12-3-2007 at 07:16 PM

:xtreme: