Voice of Antartika

şarkıcılığa soyunduk (undressed to sing)

backtoreal — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:44 -0500

Back in March 2006 we made a compilation with last.fm gang gathering “if you are man I’m a woman, evelallah I can kick your ass” type songs together. This year for the 8th of March International Women’s Day there is a new theme: Undressed to Sing. This documentary-compilation opens with pop, inescapably dives into 80s turkish arabesque and ends with livelier songs. You can sometimes feel suffocated because of the drama and the vocal performances but you will probably find the record of Hülya Avşar’s first ever appearance on stage in Germany, Lady Güngör Bayrak’s narcissist song, Fatma Girik funny pot-pourri, Yılmaz Güney’s exwife singing Sezen Aksu song, Müslüm Gürses’s wife singing Orhan Gencebay song and porn star Figen Han’s erotic song interesting. Here comes the track list:

Ay Altında – Selma Güneri
Bilinmez ki – Selda Alkor
Kalbinden Atma Beni – Meral Zeren
Aşkına Doyum Olmaz – Lale Belkıs
Vız Gelir Dünya – Sevda Ferdağ
Agora Meyhanesi – Fatma Girik
Kaderimin Oyunu – Muhterem Nur
Büklüm Büklüm – Nebahat Çehre
Tanrıya Feryat – Deniz Akbulut
Elli Yıllık Aşk – Sibel Turnagöl
Benim Adım Güngör Bayrak – Güngör Bayrak
Yak Ne Varsa Benden Kalan – Serpil Çakmaklı
Yağdır Mevlam Su – Necla Nazır
Gitme – Harika Avcı
Hayalleri Bırak – Ahu Tuğba
Mavi Mavi – Hülya Avşar
Oy Oy Bir Tanem – Türkan Şoray (Belkıs Özener’in sesinden)
Potpuri – Fatma Girik
Haydi Bastır – Figen Han

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lamia 3

hope thunderbolt — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:58:00 -0500

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...ve bek vokallerde

backtoreal — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:56:00 -0500

For the love of all faceless backing vocals

Oy Anam Oy – Arda Kardeş
Aşkımı Süpürmüşler – Sokak Çocuğu Ali
Kalplere Vur Bir Zımba – Zeki Müren
Şeker Alalım – Neriman Köksal
Feride – Emel Sayın
Senin Gibi – Gönül Yazar
Senden Sonra – Kamuran Akkor
Laf Aramızda – Ayla Algan
Çık Ortaya – Sevda Karaca
Affetmem – Funda
Analar – Kenan
Televizyon – Rüçhan Çamay
Sus Duymasın – Hümeyra
Sen Aslı’dan da Güzelsin – Cumhur
Bir köşede yalnız – Ajda Pekkan
Görünce Seni – Romalı Perihan
Zühtü – Ayla Algan
Köftehor – Turgay’ın Tavernası
Hani – Neco
Bana Bana – Grup Pan

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Combinaison Spatiale

backtoreal — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:48:00 -0500

A compilation of 60s French ye-ye girl songs dedicated to the 15th of February Valentine’s Yesterday.

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Peripheral Pissings 2

mehmet atilgan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:00:00 -0500

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The Big Thaw

untel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:47:00 -0500

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the Way North

grammar shy — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:03:00 -0500

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Love Me With My Wrongs

saint ymM — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:50:00 -0500

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korlesme (blindness)

karakafa — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:10:00 -0500

by aras ozgun
6:30 mins, Hi8/Betacam, 1996

“This video is an interval between two women’s gazes. First shot is a dialogue between a woman and a man behind the camera that she looks into; “What do you see?” ”—I see you”, ”—My eyes?”, ”—Your face”, ”—All of it?” ”—Everything”, ”—Really?”, and the video gets cut off before her last word. The second gaze belongs to another woman, who paints her face by looking at her reflection on TV, by using the camera as a mirror. The two gazes confront, juxtapose and look into each other.

But, there is a bit more about this video. The first image is an accidental recording of a dialogue between me and Nur, which I discovered in a tape long after our troubled relation ended. Second shot belongs to Cagla, whom I started learning to play with video together in the early 90’s in Ankara. She recorded these images alone at home on a depressed day; she attached the camera to the TV set, sat in front of it and painted her face for hours by looking at her reflection on the screen. When she showed me the video next morning, we were both amazed with the power of images, but didn’t know what to do with the material at all. A few years later, after we separated and she moved to Istanbul, we met again and she sadly told me that there has been a theft at her apartment, her camera bag was stolen with all her tapes in it. I asked this footage, she said that tape was also gone. Two years later, I was looking for somethings in a pile of old VHS tapes, and found a copy of this footage, accidentally dubbed into VHS while copying some other stuff we shot together. The image was weary from dubbing and the passing time; the colors of the make up on her face faded away, the reflection of her eye on the screen on her iris was barely clear behind the dropouts, the overexposed picture was pulsating with the feedback of the light emitting from screen, bending, stretching, tearing. I was fascinated with the tape, I started playing with this ghostly image. I slowed it down to see every dropout, every pulse of the light, every frame of that eye looking at itself. In my own way, I made the video she didn’t have the chance to make.

This is a video about electronic dust sedimenting over layers of time.”
—Aras Ozgun, New York, 2009

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jesus what blood!

untel — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:11:00 -0500

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