Derya Yıldırım & Graham Mushnik - Ilgaz

"Ilgaz" is the second single from the album "Hey Dostum, Çak! - Music for children and people" by Derya Yıldırım & Graham Mushnik which is out on 10th February 2023 on Buback Tonträger.

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"Ilgaz" is about the Anatolian Ilgaz Mountains. It’s a typical children’s song sung in elementary schools throughout the whole of Turkey. The rock band Moğollar recorded an impressive instrumental version in the seventies. Derya Yıldırım’s younger brother, Yakubhan, plays the main melody on the clarinet.

Many of the songs on Hey Dostum, Çak! are songs that Derya Yıldırım, a Hamburg-native, knows from her childhood: they’re lullabies she was sung to sleep with, folk songs her father played on the bağlama, ones she sang in Turkish lessons, others that could be heard on her grandparents’ cassettes, or those she learned from her bağlama teacher, who provided lessons to her and other Turkish-speaking kids at the Stadtteilladen (District Center) in Hamburg-Veddel. “Many of my younger relatives no longer know it, they can’t really speak Turkish. I don’t want to bring the kids back to the past, but with the album I want to show them: ‘check this out, look what else is there,’” Derya says. “I would have loved an album like this.”

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LYRICS:

Turkish version:
Ilgaz Anadolu'nun
Sen yüce bir dağısın
Baharda yeryüzünde
Güzellerin bağısın

Yalçın kayalıkları
Göklere yükseliyor
Senin dumanlı başın
Bulutları deliyor

Yükseklerden akıyor
Ne güzel berrak sular
Eteklerinde otlar
Sürülerle kuzular

English version:
Ilgaz of Anatolia
You're a mighty mountain
On earth in spring
You are the pinnacle of beauty

Yalçın cliffs
Rising to the skies
Your smokey top
Breaking through the clouds

Flowing from the heights
What beautiful clear waters
Grass around its edges
Lambs in flocks

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CREDITS:

Video: Rémi Richarme.

Produced, arranged and interpreted: Derya Yıldırım, Graham Mushnik
Recorded: Mense Reents, René Huthwelker, Art Blakey Studios
Mixed: Antonin Voyant, Catapulte Mountain
Mastered: Gavin Weiss

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Supported by Initiative Musik GmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.