I am a seriously lousy oud player, but so inspired by others. Some very important oud players came from Constantinople and Smyrna. Marko Melkon (Alemsherian) and Agapios Tomboulis (Hagop Stambulyan) immediately coming to mind. Armenians, Greeks and Turks lived together for centuries and played the same music.
I heard a tsifteteli (belly dance) when I played the first few notes of this. In my mind, I was with the oud of John Berberian and Haig Yazdjian that I listened to so often, growing up. And yes, some Hüsker Dü and diatonic Epirote found it’s way into this as well... What a musical trainwreck!
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