Seker Oglan / Sari Kiz / Karam / Kol Havasi

(Electric Saz Music from Turkey)

Label: Arsivplak  – TR-15

Vinyl,  7", 45 RPM, EP

UK, 2018

Tracklist:

A1 - Şeker Oğlan

A2 - Sarı Kız

B1 - Karam 

B2 - Kol Havası

Both the Vinyl Record and Cardboard Sleeve are in As New condition with no discernible signs of any wear.

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The  bağlama  or  saz  is a family of  plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in  Ottoman classical music,  Turkish folk music, Turkish  Arabesque music,  Azerbaijani music,  Bosnian music  (Sevdalinka),  Kurdish music,  Armenian music. It is played in several regions in the world such as Europe, Asia,  Black Sea,  Caucasus  regions and many countries including  Syria,  Iraq,  Iran  and  Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bağlama is Turkish from  bağlamak, "to tie". Saz  means "to make; to compose" in Persian. According to  The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "the terms 'bağlama' and 'saz' are used somewhat interchangeably in Turkey. 'Saz' is generally used interchangeably with 'enstrüman' (instrument) and it is used to refer single or group of musical instruments like 'üflemeli sazlar' (wind instruments). Like the Western  lute  and the Middle-Eastern  oud, it has a deep round back, but a much longer neck. It can be played with a  plectrum  or with a  fingerpicking  style known as  şelpe. In the  music of Greece  the name  baglamas  is given to a treble  bouzouki, a related instrument. The  Turkish  settlement of  Anatolia  from the late eleventh century onward saw the introduction of a two-string  Iranian  dutar  that Turkmen people adopted which in turn was played in some areas of  Turkey  until recent times.

The most commonly used string folk instrument in  Turkey, the bağlama has seven strings divided into courses of two, two and three. It can be tuned in various ways and takes different names according to region and size: Bağlama, Divan Sazı, Bozuk, Çöğür, Kopuz Irızva, Cura, Tambura, etc. The cura is the smallest member of the bağlama family: larger than the cura is the tambura, tuned an  octave  lower. The Divan sazı, the largest instrument in the family, is tuned one octave lower still. A bağlama has three main parts, the bowl (called  tekne), made from  mulberry  wood or  juniper,  beech,  spruce  or  walnut, the spruce  sound board  (göğüs) and a  neck  of beech or juniper (sap). The tuning pegs are known as  burgu  (literally  screw). Frets are tied to the  sap  with fishing line, which allows them to be adjusted. The bağlama is usually played with a  mızrap  or  tezene  (similar to a  guitar pick) made from cherrywood bark or plastic. In some regions, it is played with the fingers in a style known as  Şelpe  or  Şerpe.

There are also electric bağlamas, which can be connected to an amplifier. These can have either single or double pickups.