ALP ARSLAN & AN EMPEROR IMPRISONED | Manzikert 1071 - Epic Symphony (Music by Farya Faraji)

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I don't intent to stole the original creator's work. I only reupload certain parts of his epic symphony.

From an epic symphony of Manzikert 1071, music by ‪@faryafaraji‬ .
   • Manzikert 1071 - Epic Symphony  

"This is a piece I wrote in a classic Anatolian style, especially inspired by Alevi Sufi music practice. The rhythm is aksak, which refers to the asymmetrical rhythms of Turkish music, this one being in 9/8 specifically. I used the bağlama and kopuz to evoke a Sufi Anatolian sound, Sufism being central to the Seljuks’ form of mystical Islam. The piece owes much to Zikr, a form of musical performance meant to induce the participants in a transe to bring them closer to God in Sufism. The lyrics are in the Old Anatolian Turkish language, contemporary to Alp Arslan, and are from the legend of Keşik Baş, a Medieval Turkish poem recounting the deeds of Imam Ali, and how the latter fought a demon with his sword Zülfikar. "