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Arabesque - Addict to Pain of All Kinds

There’s no further need to further declare that “our lives are arabesque”. The song played at a traditional musical get together in Birecik, Urfa or at Istanbul Moda Terrace by the DJ Mehmet Teoman is the same: Orhan Gencebay’s Batsın Bu Dünya (Let This World Sink). Arabesk musician Ferdi Tayfur reproaches so-called intellectuals who still make judgements on Turkish arabesk music: “This is what they listen when they are high!”

Shot in Gaziantep, Urfa-Halfeti, Urfa-Birecik, Edirne and İstanbul, this musical documentary opens an unprejudiced window to a wide range of music genres from fantasy to tavern to arabesk-rap. The film also features interviews and performances by musicians such as Ferdi Tayfur, Hakkı Bulut, Ümit Besen, Kibariye, Emrah, Orhan Gencebay, Çamur, and Vokaliz. The advisors of the documentary are Naim Dilmener, Can Kozanoğlu, Ömer Özgüner and Serkan Seymen.