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World on 3: Session with Cigdem Aslan

Session with Cigdem Aslan

04/10/2013

BBC Radio 3 - World on 3, Session with Cigdem Aslan

Mary Ann Kennedy presents new world music, plus a session with Turkish singer Cigdem Aslan

Mary Ann Kennedy presents new tracks from around the world, plus a studio session with young Turkish singer Cigdem Aslan, who performs songs from her debut album, Mortissa.

Mary Ann Kennedy with new tracks from across the globe, plus a studio session with young Turkish singer Çigdem Aslan, performing songs from her debut album 'Mortissa'.

'Mortissa' means 'strong, independent woman', and Çigdem Aslan's new album looks back to the musically-rich period of Turkey and Greece in the 1920s, when 'rebetiko' songs flourished in the cafes of Istanbul, Athens and Piraeus. Like the contemporary jazz of the USA, these songs were associated with the disreputable underclass, and spoke against the status quo of the time with powerful and emotional music.

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