{"id":25418,"date":"2014-12-18T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2015-03-22T00:03:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T23:03:24","slug":"aygul-erce-%e2%80%93-the-joan-baez-of-kurdistan-sings-in-perfect-armenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=25418","title":{"rendered":"Ayg\u0171l Erce \u2013 The Joan Baez of Kurdistan sings in Perfect … Armenian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Legendary Joan Baez, with her acolyte Aygul Erce in London<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sensational News \u2013 Centenary Armenian Year 2015 <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By Edwina Charles, BA<\/em> (Phil), BSc<\/em> Hon (Psych)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many are the classically trained opera singers that sing in languages which are not their own mother-tongue.\u00a0\u00a0 But rare is the \u2018foreign\u2019 singer whose articulation is as good as the native speaker, and even rarer is the one whose command of the foreign tongue even surpasses that of some native speakers… There are for example some Pakistanis in Britain, who manage to speak better … Cockney than English native cockneys!<\/p>\n

Ms Ayg\u0171l Erce, the Kurdish folk singer based in London, it seems \u2013 I am assured by Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian, an Armenian philologist (masters 8 (+) ancient and modern languages, among other disciplines he dominates, as a unique Polymath) enunciates in Armenian better than most Western Armenians fragmented world-wide, assimilated in disappearing Diasporas …<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UN_WchfKzls&list=UUESxU5sPB1Jy7JN-S48pkjw<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is not surprising \u2013 as a classical music composer himself, the Professor had recognized a massive talent in Ms Erce (classically trained as an opera-singer), and had recently taken her under his wing, translated personally into literary Armenian (in a way that is understood by both Eastern \u2013 the Republican – and Western Diaspora Armenians) one of Ms Erce\u2019s famous songs, originally in a double version of Kurdish & Turkish.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/2014\/02\/aygul123\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Professor\u2019s \u2018musically\u2019 fitted translation (I am told by Armenian friends) is \u201ca glorious mixture of both literary Armenian dialects\u201d, almost a perfect \u201cnew language\u201d; for example, \u201cYess hakin em vznots-s<\/em>\u201d = I am wearing my scarf\/necklace.\u00a0 In grammatical form, the sentence is in Eastern Armenian, but perfectly legible in content for Western Armenians, with the added ambiguity of the scarf meaning as well a necklace. There are magnificent puns in the line \u201cVostikanner@ ints bantetsin<\/strong><\/span><\/em>\u201d = the police (also the soldiers<\/em>) jailed (but also killed\/murdered<\/em>) me; s-bannel<\/em><\/strong> echoically (the sound from the two words) = murder, kill.<\/p>\n

A-political Pop<\/strong><\/p>\n

The deliberate de-politicization of the Pop-world by the American ruling elite over several decades<\/strong> now has finally succeeded in inventing a fantasy drug-fuelled world of no more than androgynous male singers<\/strong> (mostly gay) usually singing in Beatles<\/em>-type of falsetto<\/em>, and female pop-divas<\/em>, their lyrics emptied of all serious content, are left with nothing else to do but sell their boobs-and-butts for the cocaine-addled delectation of the Wall Street Bankers playing casino-games with the world\u2019s money…<\/p>\n

Gone are the days, when the legendary Bob Dylan<\/strong> and Joan Baez<\/strong> could raise global consciousness against the War in Vietnam and topple official America\u2019s drunken tipplers!<\/p>\n

Idolizing Joan Baez as an artist, Ms Erce\u2019s surplus-value is that, she is preserving and modernizing Ms Baez\u2019 tradition of writing politically humanitarian protest-songs, shaming the evil doers of this world<\/strong>, and displaying compassion for the underdog, the unfairly abused, and the masses lacking any social justice, oppressed by ruthless and brutal governments, lacking any human decencies.<\/p>\n

And here is her best hitherto \u2013 titled Pu<\/strong>\u015f<\/strong>e<\/strong> = Scarf<\/em> \u2013 about a young, totally innocent (presumably Kurdish) university student, waiting at a bus-stop, to catch the bus to go to his Uni …\u00a0 instead, the \u2018Americanized\u2019 brutalized genocidal Turkish police arrive \u2013 they arrest him, beat him up with their batons, throw him in jail, all because he happens to wear the … Palestinian type of large scarf worn by the Intifada<\/em><\/strong>-youth … The Kurdish student is put on trial, as in Kafka\u2019s novel, never knowing why, his university cut off, his dreams of a noble career destroyed … And all for what? For wearing a Palestinian Arab-style scarf…<\/p>\n

The story is totally true<\/strong>, and was reported at the time in the Turkish press, inspiring Ms Erce to her most melodious and easily remembered, heart-breaking song … I never tire of hearing it a dozen times at a time \u2013 it is so very sadly beautiful.<\/p>\n

Professor Pilikian it seems has personally coached Ms Erce, working meticulously on Ms Erce\u2019s Armenian enunciation, but especially musically on a selective translation that takes into account the complexity of the song\u2019s political themes and their profoundly evocative semantic dimensions<\/strong>, frequently rendering explicit what is implicit in the original \u2013 for example, by describing the scarf with a single word (\u201cPalestinian\u201d), Professor Pilikian has instantly linked (and very succinctly I think) the struggles of the two oppressed peoples, whose lands are unfairly conquered by the oppressors;<\/strong> Kurdistan<\/em> by the Turks, and Arab Palestine<\/em> by the Israelis.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two extremely rich moments in the narrative of the song is when Professor Pilikian with a philologist\u2019s masterly use of language, contextually vibrates with a single word several socio-political layers of references;<\/p>\n

(1) \u201cAnonk ints voghchagizetsin<\/strong><\/em>\u201d= they {the brutal genociders} holocaust<\/em>-ed me\u201d, referring easily to the Nazi genocide of the Jews, and<\/p>\n

(2) In the main refrain of the song \u2013 \u201cO yaman, yaman, yaman<\/em>\u201d, mourning in his prison cell, and bewailing, the young student remembers heartbreakingly his mother (\u201cOi mama-s, mama-s, mama-s<\/em>), apologizing to his mother for causing her grief (by the use of the possessive \u201cs<\/em><\/strong>\u201d), while expressing longing for her maternal love and warmth.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It was not at all difficult to work with Ms Erce<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/span>, the Professor tells me humbly, \u201c<\/span>She is pitch-perfect \u2013 very rare even among experienced opera-singers, a fount of melodious harmonies and her lyrics are always deeply significant, highly political, profoundly compassionate and humanitarian. \u00a0Her musical phrasing is smooth and tuneful, richly and memorably tuneful \u2013 in other words, a second JOAN BAEZ<\/strong> indeed! No wonder the legendary Ms Baez is Ms Erce\u2019s ideal and idol. I was very pleased when on a recent appearance of Ms Baez in London, Mr Mark Spector, Ms Baez\u2019 perceptive and sensitive agent performed the impossible miracle \u2013 upon my recommendation, he kindly arranged for the star to meet her young acolyte, hence this most beautiful sisterly picture, published here for the first time<\/span>!!!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ms Erce was so pleased with the result of her work with Professor Pilikian, that she told me she already feels like an … Armenian, and she is almost certain now that she must have had an Armenian grandmother … at least she knows that her husband does, indeed her Kurdish husband had discovered some time ago that he had an Armenian grandmother, like many Kurds nowadays re-discovering their Armenian progeny!<\/p>\n

\u201cIn today\u2019s Turkey<\/span>\u201d, continues the Professor, a distinguished historian as well, \u201cso many Turks and Kurds have had the courage to come out of the woodworks and claim their part-Armenian heritage \u2013 it has become almost trendy to claim an Armenian connection…<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd imagine, Talaat Pasha<\/strong> \u2013 the Ottoman Minister of the Interior \u2013 with Enver<\/strong> & Djemal<\/strong> \u2013 the Young Turk<\/em> Triumvirate, who planned and organized the genocide of 2 million Armenians<\/strong>, hyenas who fed on the Armenian corpses they had murdered in 1915, had bragged to the American Ambassador in Istanbul Henry Morgenthau, that he was determined to leave only a single Armenian<\/strong>, for a taxidermist, to stuff it for a Museum as a sample of the race<\/strong>… the proto-Nazi idiot must be turning in his rotten grave and \u201cstinking up to heaven\u201d (as Hamlet\u2019s uncle says) hearing of several million modern Turks<\/strong> being proud of their Armenian grandmothers \u2013 almost a \u2018new race\u2019 in formation I call \u201cArmeno-Turks\u201d !!!\u00a0 History shall never be on the side of genociders<\/strong><\/span>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I could not but agree fully with Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian, a man who knows history full well, born of the generation who (the Professor\u2019s parents) as children had miraculously<\/strong> survived the genocide of the Armenians perpetrated by the Turkish ruling elite.<\/p>\n

The End<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[stream provider=youtube base=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1lezjm1XOxk&feature=player_embedded= embed=false share=false width=640 height=360 dock=true controlbar=over bandwidth=high autostart=false responsive=16:9 \/]<\/p>\n

\u0531\u0575\u0563\u0575\u0578\u0582\u056c \u0537\u0580\u0565\u057b\u0565\u056b (aygul Erc\u00e9) \u0569\u0578\u0582\u0580\u0584\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0576 \u00ab\u0553\u0578\u0582\u0577\u056b\u00bb (Pu\u015fi) \u0565\u0580\u0563\u0568 \u0569\u0561\u0580\u0563\u0574\u0561\u0576\u057e\u0561\u056e \u0570\u0561\u0575\u0565\u0580\u0565\u0576\u056b\u055d \u00a0\u057a\u0580\u0578\u0586\u0565\u057d\u0578\u0580 \u0540\u0578\u057e\u0570\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u057d \u053b\u057d\u0580\u0561\u0575\u0565\u056c\u056b \u0553\u056b\u056c\u056b\u056f\u0575\u0561\u0576\u056b \u056f\u0578\u0572\u0574\u056b\u0581<\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u054a\u0561\u0572 \u0567 \u0585\u0564\u0568 \u0561\u0575\u057d\u0585\u0580<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u0535\u057d \u0570\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0576 \u0565\u0574 \u057e\u0566\u0576\u0578\u0581\u057d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0531\u057e\u057f\u0578\u0562\u0578\u0582\u057d\u0568 \u0579\u0565\u056f\u0561\u057e \u056a\u0561\u0574\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0535\u057d \u0579\u0570\u0561\u057d\u0561 \u0570\u0561\u0574\u0561\u056c\u057d\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0548\u057d\u057f\u056b\u056f\u0561\u0576\u0576\u0565\u0580\u0568 \u056b\u0576\u0571 \u0562\u0561\u0576\u0564\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u054e\u0566\u0576\u0578\u0581\u057d \u0563\u0565\u057f\u056b\u0576 \u0576\u0565\u057f\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u054e\u0566\u0576\u0578\u0581\u057d \u057a\u0561\u0572\u0565\u057d\u057f\u056b\u0576\u0575\u0561\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0548\u0582\u0566\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576 \u056f\u0575\u0561\u0576\u0584\u057d \u0583\u0579\u0561\u0581\u0576\u0565\u056c<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0555\u055c \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576 \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576 \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0555\u055c \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576 \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576 \u0575\u0561\u0574\u0561\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0555\u055c \u0544\u0561\u0574\u0561\u057d\u00a0 \u0544\u0561\u0574\u0561\u057d \u0544\u0561\u0574\u0561\u057d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0548\u0582\u0566\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576 \u056f\u0575\u0561\u0576\u0584\u057d \u0583\u0579\u0561\u0581\u0576\u0565\u056c<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0531\u0576\u0578\u0576\u0584 \u056b\u0576\u0571 \u0578\u0572\u057b\u0561\u056f\u056b\u0566\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0533\u0578\u0572\u0581\u0561\u0576 \u056f\u0575\u0561\u0576\u0584\u056b\u057d \u057f\u0561\u0580\u056b\u0576\u0565\u0580\u0568<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u053f\u0575\u0561\u0576\u0584\u056b\u057d \u056a\u0561\u0574\u0565\u0580\u0568 \u057e\u0561\u057f\u0576\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0540\u0561\u0574\u0561\u056c\u057d\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576\u057d \u057e\u0565\u0580\u057b\u0561\u0581\u0578\u0582\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0535\u0582 \u0565\u057d \u0579\u0578\u0582\u0576\u0565\u0574 \u057a\u0561\u057f\u0561\u057d\u056d\u0561\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0539\u0565 \u056b\u0576\u0571 \u056b\u055e\u0576\u0579 \u057a\u0561\u057f\u0561\u0570\u0565\u0581<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0531\u0576\u0578\u0576\u0584 \u056b\u0576\u0571 \u0564\u0561\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0561\u0576 \u0570\u0561\u0576\u0571\u0576\u0565\u0581\u056b\u0576<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u0531\u057c\u0561\u0576\u0581 \u056b\u0574 \u0570\u0561\u0576\u0581\u0561\u0576\u0584\u0568 \u0583\u0561\u057d\u057f\u0565\u056c\u0578\u0582<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Translation into Armenian of the Lyrics of Aygul Erce\u2019s Turkish Song Pu<\/em>\u015f<\/em>i<\/em> ;\u00a0 by Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian<\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Eem Vzno-tz-e(h)<\/span><\/em> <\/em><\/h3>\n

Ba-gh\u00a0 eh\u00a0 ot-e(h)\u00a0 aissor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yess \u00a0hakin \u00a0em \u00a0\u00a0Vzno-ts-e(h)-s<\/strong><\/p>\n

Otobiuss-e(h)\u00a0 che(h)kav\u00a0 jamin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yess\u00a0\u00a0 ch-hassa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hamalsaran<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vostikanner-e(h)\u00a0 in-ts\u00a0\u00a0 bante(h)-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vzno-ts-s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 getin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nete(h)-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vzno-ts-s\u00a0\u00a0 Pa-gh-estin-ian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ou-zeh-ts-in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 giank-s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p-ja-ts-neh-l<\/strong><\/p>\n

O\u00a0\u00a0 yaman,\u00a0 yaman,\u00a0 yaman<\/strong><\/p>\n

O\u00a0\u00a0 yaman,\u00a0 yaman,\u00a0 yaman,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oi\u00a0 Mamas\u00a0 Mamas\u00a0 Mamas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ou-zeh-ts-in\u00a0 gaink-s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 p-ja-ts-neh-l<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anonk\u00a0\u00a0 ints\u00a0 \u00a0voghjakizeh-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go-gh-ts-an\u00a0\u00a0 giankiss\u00a0\u00a0 tarinere(h)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Giankiss\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 jame(h)re(h)\u00a0\u00a0 vatne(h)-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hamalsaran-s\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ve(h)rja-ts-ou-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yev\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Yess\u00a0\u00a0 ch-ou-ne(h)m\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0patas-kh-an<\/strong><\/p>\n

Te(h)\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0in-ts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he(h)t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0in-ch\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0patah-e(h)-ts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anonk\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 in-ts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dataran\u00a0 \u00a0han-ts-ne(h)-ts-in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arran-ts\u00a0\u00a0 im\u00a0\u00a0 han-ts-ank-e(h) \u00a0\u00a0passtel-ou<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ayg\u00fcl Erce \u2013 Pu\u015fi (Kurdish version) <\/strong><\/p>\n

Pu\u015fi<\/h3>\n

Hewa pir sare \u00eero<\/strong>
\n Min pu\u015f\u00eeya xwe gireda<\/strong>
\n Otobus j\u00ee nema hat<\/strong>
\n Dereng mam ji dibistan\u00ea xwe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Xistin zindane Xistin<\/strong>
\n Av\u00eatin pu\u015f\u00eeya min erd\u00ea<\/strong>
\n Qey min pu\u015f\u00ee greday\u00ee<\/strong>
\n \u015fewitandin biqesdan\u00ee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oy eman eman eman<\/strong>
\n Oy eman eman eman<\/strong>
\n \u015fewitandin day\u00ea eman<\/strong>
\n Sal\u00ean min diz\u00een eman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ciwan\u00eeya min dest di\u00e7e<\/strong>
\n Dibistana min zu qet\u00eeya<\/strong>
\n Ewa ku ser\u00ea min hat<\/strong>
\n manayek H\u00ean nikaribum<\/strong>
\n Dadgeh\u00ea ava kirine<\/strong>
\n Cezay\u00ea min bir\u00eene<\/strong>
\n \u00c7i govan heye \u00e7i selmin<\/strong>
\n Sal\u00ean min diz\u00eene eman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Xistin zindane Xistin<\/strong>
\n Av\u00eatin pu\u015f\u00eeya min erd\u00ea<\/strong>
\n Qey min pu\u015f\u00ee greday\u00ee<\/strong>
\n \u015fewitandin biqesdan\u00ee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oy eman eman eman<\/strong>
\n Oy eman eman eman<\/strong>
\n \u015fewitandin day\u00ea eman<\/strong>
\n Sal\u00ean min diz\u00een eman<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Legendary Joan Baez, with her acolyte Aygul Erce in London Sensational News \u2013 Centenary Armenian Year 2015 By Edwina Charles, BA (Phil), BSc Hon (Psych) Many are the classically…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions\/25420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}