TO SCRATCH YOUR HEART EARLY RECORDINGS FROM ISTANBUL TURKEY ARABIC 4LP BOX SET

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ULTRA RARE OUT-OF-PRINT 4XLP BOX SET

VARIOUS - TO SCRATCH YOUR HEART

Early Recordings From Istanbul

Feat. Udi Neset Bey, Celanikli Apti Efendi, Agyazar Efendi, Hafiz Cemal Bey, Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey, Fikriye Hanim, Aleko Bacanos Efendi, Muserref Hanim, Kamil Efendi, Hafiz Sami and many more...

Original Honest John's Pressing 201?

VG++/M-

 

This is an original pressing of this impossible to find and out-of-print box set! Amazing from start to finish and features many recordings from 78s from the'10s, '20s, '30s. It is extremely rare and surely on everyone's want list, here's an impeccable collectors copy, so please bid accordingly. Check the soundclip. Note: this soundclip was recorded on a Numark portable turntable so sound quality sounds inferior, tinny and thin, to that on a proper system.

Listen to clip

'Honest Jon's presents a luxuriously packaged deluxe 4xLP Boxset package (in a cardboard slip case with individual sleeves for each LP) drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, during the first three decades of the 20th century. Amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, it 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. Most of the singers are hafiz, versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the gazel. There are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three of these gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Agyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart-melting female vocal performances of a kind of art-song called sarki. Also featured is the taksim, a kind of improvisation in which one-off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listener's soul, illuminate deep fluency in the makam. A who's-who of the pre-eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning, breathtaking, exquisite and other-worldly. The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating.' Artists/Tracks on this Four LP Boxset are as follows: Udi Neset Bey - 'Setaraban Taksim' Selanikli Apti Efendi - 'Sende Acep' Agyazar Efendi - 'Murat Kenarinda' Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey - 'Evc Ara Taksim' Hafiz Cemal Bey - 'Feryat' Fikriye Hanim - 'Ateslik Eder' Hafiz Asir Efendi - 'Kesik Kerem' Udi Nevres Bey - 'Aksam Oldu' Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey - 'Huzzam Taksim' Aleko Bacanos Efendi - 'Segah Taksim' Muserref Hanim - 'Kim Derdi Ki' Kamil Efendi - 'Hicaz Taksim 1' Hafiz Sami - 'Derdime Vakif Degilim' Nubar Bey & Ibrahim Bey - 'Hicazkar Pesrev' Hafiz Mahmut Bey - 'Bulbulun Ezeli' Yorgo Bacanos Efendi - 'Milli Yegah Taksim' Emim Taninmis Efendi - 'Rast Taksim' Neyzen Tevfik Efendi - 'Huseyni Taksim' Udi Neset Bey - 'Nihavent Taksim' Balikesirli Tanburi Fuat Bey & Nezihe Hanim - 'Ninni' Nafi Bey - 'Derdime Vakif Degilim' Kanuni Artaki Efendi - 'Sehnaz Taksim' Munir Nurettin Bey - 'Madem Ki Vardi Hicran' Yozgath Hafiz Suleyman Bey - 'Ben Nasil Ah Etmeyeyim' Tanburi Ibrahim Bey - 'Huzzam Taksim' Kemani Nubar Tekyay - 'Huseyni Taksim' Hafiz Cemal Bey - 'Yare Varsin' Anastas Efendi - 'Nihavent Taksim' Udi Marko Colakoglu Efendi - 'Hacer-ul Esved Imis' Yorgo Bacanos Efendi - 'Huseyni Taksim' Belkis Hanim - 'Eyvah O Benim Talihime' Refik Fersan Bey - 'Milli Yegah Taksim' Sevket Bey - 'Huseyni Kuzu' Eyyubi Mustafa Sunar Bey - 'Hicaz Taksim'

Cover: VG++, box cover in amazing condition, slight edge and corner wear, slight dirt on back, labels and insert perfect (see pic)
Vinyl: M-, unplayed copy plays and looks near mint, strong sound, beautiful sheen, no skips no pops (listen to soundclip)

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