OUT NOW! SIFIR / ZAFER ARACAGÖK :: IF I WERE HAPPY (RIZOSFERA-NUKFM 020)
Today ends the pre-order of the ‘If I Were Happy‘ album in USB Card with fine packaging including seven double-sided postcards, for a total of 14 images, and two leporelli / folders with the philosofical text ‘Clamour’ by Zafer Aracagök, and the lyrics / lyrics of the six songs that make up the album in question.
Tracklisting:
- If I Were Happy
- Organs of Virility
- Sono morti
- The Whip
- Was It Me?
- Exhausted
All the tracks composed and mastered by SIFIR at his home studio, Istanbul, 2023.
* All vocals by SIFIR except additional readings by Lori on track I and by Maurizio Crotti Fornaciari on track III.
* The lyrics for tracks I, II, IV, V are culled from Farid ud-Din Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, circa 1177.
* The spoken excerpt in track I is from Samuel Beckett’s The Unnameable, performed by Lori / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ksliMCrP3U.
* The lyrics for track III come from Antonin Artaud.
* The lyrics for track VI are selected freely from feminist, experimental, female Turkish writer, Sevim Burak’s Everest My Lord, Istanbul: Adam Yayıncılık, 1984.
* Malfunctioning escalator in track II recorded by Umur Çelikyay
* Roland Boutique JU-06 in track IV performed by Umur Çelikyay
*The bass line in track VI, “Exhausted” is a reference to Dave Holland’s The Conference of the Birds which appeared in the album bearing the same title in 1972.
* Visual and technical support: Deniz Yılmazlar | Karbon
* Photography by Mehmet Ali Taşlı
