ELA - HAZEL
This is a poem by 17th century Alevi asik bard Karacaoğlan, with music by Olcay and arranged and produced by talented Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Deniz Mahir Kartal. In Turkey the prolific output of Karacaoğlan is compared to Shakespeare and love and death feature strongly. For Olcay, the voices of the past are important in helping us find our identity and a reminder that our feelings are shaped by the bards of old as much as by the vicissitudes of our life today. Love is timeless. The pulsing rhythm and breathy ney flute reference Sufi music, where earthly love points to love for the divine. Although centuries pass, love and how we perceive it does not change. Olcay gives voice to a poem written hundreds of years ago through 21st century music.
August 23, 2022
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Singer - Writer & Composer
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Folk Artist
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Collaborations with Famous Musicians
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Best newcomer in the Songlines Music Awards 2015
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Well Known Musician
〰️ Singer - Writer & Composer 〰️ Folk Artist 〰️ Collaborations with Famous Musicians 〰️ Best newcomer in the Songlines Music Awards 2015 〰️ Well Known Musician
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Echoes of Love Around The World
A beautifully universal album featuring music from Ethiopia to Russia, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Vietnam and further afield Each musician shares their personal stories of love and inspiration that echo around the world to be heard by anyone who chances upon it, If music be the food of love, play on!
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INSIDE - İÇERDE
The four songs on the E.P. “Inside (İçerde)” paint an emotion-portrait of Olcay’s inner life during the pandemic. Our urge for human connection fights with loneliness and our heart searches for love, the reason for our existence. We question ourselves
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NEVA/HARMONY
Inspired by the meeting of Asian and Mediterranean musical traditions, Olcay Bayir’s songs unfold ancient stories of love and mystery from the region of Turkey. Olcay Bayir’s songs unfold ancient stories of Anatolian love and mystery.