A Composer/Singer based in London, Miss Aygul Erce is the Joan Baez of
Kurdistan. Professor H. I. Pilikian has produced a video clip for YouTube of
one of the most melodious of Miss Erce’s protest Songs, with lyrics in two
versions – in Kurdish and Turkish, both subtitled in the English language.թԹ թԹ
The narrative of the song is based on a true Turkish newspaper story, when a
young Kurdish student was arrested and imprisoned in Turkey for merely being
at a … bus-stop, by chance, on the route of a political demonstration.թԹ թԹ
The scarf Miss Erce is wearing (the title of her Song Pushi does mean Scarf)
in the video clip is a reference to the famous Palestinian fashion-item
symbolizing simultaneously the struggle of the Palestinian youth (the
Intifada) for freedom and democracy.
Miss Erce’s composition is hauntingly melodious and easily memorable.թԹ One
can never have enough of hearing itթԹ many times over …
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թԹ – Edwina Charles, writer, London.թԹ թԹ թԹ թԹ թԹ
Million pachik
Hovhanness
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