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Istanbul Link Tours 4 – Music Bands from Istanbul

Welcome to another Istanbul link tour. In this post we focused on some of the unique music bands from Istanbul. We hope you enjoy our tour. The first one is a web site, www.newmusicistanbul.com by the musician Seda Öger. She says “The...
Turkish music, Turkish instruments, Turkish guitar, saz baglama

Turkish Instruments, Baglama

Baglama is a traditional Turkish instrument, Turkish guitar. It is the most common folk instrument in Turkey. The name of the instrument comes from baglamak (to tie). It has seven strings divided into courses of two, two and three. It...
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Turkish Music, Arabesk

Arabesk is a kind of contemporary Turkish music containing elements derived from Arabian music. It was very popular in Turkey in the 80′s. As a type of music, it is the name given to songs that are extremely emotional, even painful, which...
Turkish music, Istanbul by Sertap erener

Istanbul by Sertap Erener

Istanbul by Sertap Erener, former Eurovision song contest winner (2003) is a documentary-like video clip of Istanbul. Share/Bookmark

Live It Up, Turkey's Eurovision Song 2011

Live It Up by Yuksek Sadakat, Turkey’s Eurovision song for 2011 contest introduced to the public by TRT, Turkish Broadcasting Corporate. [dailymotion xh7xp5] Share/Bookmark

Fasil, A Traditional Turkish Music

Fasil is a special type of concert with different musical forms arranged in a particular order, usually built around one of the many different Turkish scales in traditional Turkish music. The concert is a mix of instrumental and vocal music....

Sensiz Istanbul'a dusmanim

Sensiz Istanbul’a dusmanim by Emre Aydin & Gripin [dailymotion x5m9ie] Share/Bookmark

Darbuka, Dumbelek

Darbuka is is a goblet shaped hand drum used mostly in Arabic, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music. It is also called dümbelek in Turkish. [dailymotion x5im72] Share/Bookmark

“Durma Yagmur Durma” by Gripin

Gripin is a pop rock band started music by playing cover songs. Today they are one of the most popular bands in Turkey. gripin.org Share/Bookmark

Dolapdere Big Gang

Dolapdere Big Gang, founded by the musician and DJ Onder Ulugur 5 years ago, is an Istanbul band playing worldwide known pop and rock songs with Turkish instruments and style played by the gypsy musicians from Dolapdere, Taksim. Dolapderebiggang.com Don’t...