Twin Songs ("Canciones De Hermandad") is a cultural project that was born in 1993 Folklore in the Department of Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, wanting to represent the musical diversity (cultural) Turkish, plural vision that includes traditions armenias, kurdas and azerís, with all the political baggage that entails. They have since been incorporated, also, popular rhythms Caucasian, alevís, Macedonian and romanís. Vertigo.

ISTANBUL, FLAVORS that knows no boundaries

Discuss Istanbul as a crossroads or bridge between East and West means giving to both places and recognize reality status, also, monolithic qualities, homogeneous: bridges between two shores are laid solid, never in the middle of the marshes. It's a polarized world view certainly legitimized by air travel, we move from point to point without mediation, grading or any. There is another possible way of reading the world, and understand as cultural continuity becomings, neighborhood spaces and cross contamination, Easts and Wests without, a walk uninterrupted beltline an infinite as, wonders of geometry, is part of a round planet where everything east is the western one.

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Mercan Dede is a Turkish electronic musician who resides in Canada, discolored hair and spends his albums "companion of my life", the cute Canadian DJ Jarret Gibbons. His last work contains a love letter to his teacher on, Yalal out-Din Rumi, also known as Mevlana, poet and mystic of the thirteenth century. The cover shows an angel dressed as a dervish (or a dervish with wings) on the Istanbul skyline.

And 1998, appeared on the market in which Madonna album, Goldie Hawn… Demi Moore and! recited poems by this author.

At the time of terror, when Islam is the devil what does this Rumi to have become a pop music phenomenon and draw disparate people?

Last night I was there and the idol Clement…

I was everything and it all touching plea.

He spent the night and ended our history.

Not the fault of the night: our history was long.