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Sinem - “Hatun” release show

Sinem's grandmother Hatun packed her suitcase a long time ago and drove to Germany. Sinem's second album bears the name of her grandmother.Sinem grew up in Upper Bavaria, on Lake Ammersee, and was socialized with western pop music (“Dance the Mussolini”) and music from the Turkish homeland of her grandparents. Classics of Turkish pop culture, which are interpreted over and over again, that deal with love, the unrequited, the impossible and the past, but also about what happens, in the village, in the country, in the world, about injustice and resistance to it. On her first album “Köşk”, Sinem interpreted such classics. What they all had in common was that they convey an attitude. Through her lyrics, her sound or through elegant moves like this: to sing the song of a macho who talks about a woman. But the fact that it is Sinem's voice that sings these words and that she ecstatically rolls around on stage says more than any feminist seminar. That's Anadolu Punk.

The new album, “Hatun”, starts with “Ötme Bülbül Ötme” written by Pir Sultan Abdal, performed by Sercan Öztürk and Hüseyin Korkankorkmaz. It is one of the songs that Sinem heard from her grandparents. Perhaps it told them about life abroad: “Don't sing, nightingale, my garden isn't happy. I pass away out of longing for you.” For “Hatun,” Sinem has once again chosen classics by Sezen Aksu, Erkin Koray and others that have special meaning for her and have been with her for a long time.

Sinem, the band in which Tom Wu is responsible for the music and Sinem for the vocals, has now also written their own songs. Because they come from themselves, they develop their own strength. The voice of tradition is answered from the present, the past forms the echo chamber for stories from today. Expectations that others bring to us only allow us to look back to the past and forward to the future, but never live in the moment and be satisfied with what you do and what you are. Sinem has a snotty answer: “Bana ne,” I don't care! “I did this myself. And I did that myself. What do you want to do about it? What concerns you? I don't care! “On the second track of the album, Sinem raises her voice above a muscular rocking track that goes his own way stoically and with firm steps...