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    Armenian songs performed in a Turkish movie

    20.03.2010 16:58 GMT+04:00


    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Friday, March 12, the result of eight years of
    research and filming, musician and music producer Nezih Ünen's
    project, Lost Songs of Anatolia, has finally come out in Turkish
    theatres, long after its premiere at last year's Istanbul
    International Film Festival.

    The film, which has been hailed as the first musical-documentary,
    features around 20 musical numbers shot on location in various places
    around Anatolia and examines the influence of ancient civilizations,
    rituals and mythology of the land on traditional music and dance.

    Turkish composer, producer and arranger Nezih Ünen was inspired to
    make the film by Peter Gabriel's Passion album, which includes
    Anatolian folk songs. Talking about the film to Hürriyet Daily News
    and Economic Review the director stated, `A hundred years ago, cinema
    and the music industry started to grow up and circulate freely. While
    the world was developing quickly in culture and arts, Anatolia was
    left to solitude despite all its riches, and we should dote on
    Anatolia, protect all its riches and hand down this heritage to the
    next generations. This is our primary responsibility.'

    `In fact, when I realize that I do not know Anatolian people, I
    understood that I did not know myself either. After I became aware of
    this, I decided to do something about it and started from the point I
    knew best,' he added. As Ünen describes in his press release, the aim
    of the project was to archive the sounds and songs of Anatolia and try
    to find people who knew these songs, no matter where and who they
    were. Armenian songs would be performed for the first time in a movie.
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