Satriani dedicates two songs to Aþýk Veysel
It has been 35 years since the death of Aþýk Veysel Þatýroðlu, the greatest poet of 20th century Turkish folk literature, but the world-renowned blind minstrel and baðlama player lives on in American guitarist Joe Satriani´s latest album in two songs the famous guitarist dedicated to him.
Satriani pays tribute to Þatýroðlu with the songs "Aþýk Veysel" and "Andalusia" in his new studio album titled "Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock," the Anatolia news agency reported. The track "Aþýk Veysel" is a collage of Þatýroðlu´s folksongs in a novel arrangement that features the sound of a baðlama played by a guitar. Satriani said he employed an unusual technique to achieve the baðlama sound with the guitar on the track. "I played in a style I´ve never played before," Anatolia quoted Satriani as saying.
The acclaimed instrumental guitarist took inspiration from Þatýroðlu´s songs after he came to Turkey last summer for a concert in Ãstanbul in July, which was his first-ever trip to Turkey in his 25-year career. Satriani explained that the event manager he collaborated with for his Ãstanbul concert gave him two Þatýroðlu CDs after finding out that the guitarist had never heard of the world-famous folk poet. "I was really impressed. The music [of Þatýroðlu] echoed as though I had known it for years," Satriani says about his first encounter with Þatýroðlu´s music.
As for the track "Andalusia," Satriani says it is a song in which the spirit of Þatýroðlu lives on. Satriani said he "conveyed the spirit of the folk poet [in the song] as though he was living in a [southern] Spanish town." Satriani´s 10-track "Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock" hit music stores across Europe, Australia and Taiwan on April 1.
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