Road to Ardesen

Story Behind The Song

It was the summer of 1992. One of the regional musical instruments in the northeast part of Turkey is the tulum. A form of bagpipe whose bellows is made from the hide of a goat. It was some of this music that I had designs on recording...it was suggested...we take a trip to a very remote village in the mountains called Camlihemsin. The journey turned out to be a very arduous and lengthy one with all sorts of perils and surprises...

Song Description

...By now it was raining heavily and we were soaked...we came to a large building set back from the the road with a fence and gates. In the brightly lit courtyard, large, heavy trucks were idling. We walked inside and tried to explain our situation. The workmen in this tea processing plant, for that is what it was, were very sympathetic and invited us upstairs into what appeared to be their lunchroom. Tea and fresh apricots were brought and placed on the dining table and we thankfully rested our tired bodies on the seats. I must have managed to convey what we, or at least I, was doing in this remote part of Turkey, or maybe it was just unbelievable luck, I don't remember. But the next thing I know there is a man sitting next to me playing a sipsi. It was all rather dream-like. Just to explain, a sipsi is essentially the chanter, the 'business' part of a bagpipe. It consists of a wooden tube about the size of a thick pencil. It also has some fingerholes cut into it. At one end of the tube, a reed is inserted. This is a thinner tube which has had a knife taken to it to cut a slice into it. This thinner piece is placed in the mouth of the player and as he blows the thin reed vibrates and creates a very harsh, well, bag-pipey sound. Since there is no airbag, the player is required to use the circular method of breathing which allows for uninterrupted sequential notes. He graciously permitted me to record his tunes, and they are samples from this recording that you hear on this piece of music which I have built around just a small part of one of his melodies. The day would otherwise have been better forgotten, but as luck would have it, I was rewarded with this magnificent field recording.

Song Length 3:02 Genre World - World Beat, World - Middle Eastern
Tempo Medium Fast (131 - 150) Lead Vocal Instrumental
Mood In High Spirits Language No Language
Music brian rose Producer brian rose
Performance brian rose / unnamed sipsi player

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