{"id":215952,"date":"2024-03-17T14:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/?p=215952"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:51:36","slug":"out-now-sifir-zafer-aracagok-if-i-were-happy-rizosfera-nukfm-020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/blog\/out-now-sifir-zafer-aracagok-if-i-were-happy-rizosfera-nukfm-020\/","title":{"rendered":"OUT NOW! SIFIR \/ ZAFER ARACAG\u00d6K :: IF I WERE HAPPY (RIZOSFERA-NUKFM 020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OUT NOW! SIFIR \/ ZAFER ARACAG\u00d6K :: IF I WERE HAPPY (RIZOSFERA-NUKFM 020)<\/h1>\n

Today ends the pre-order of the ‘If I Were Happy<\/strong>‘ 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 Aracag\u00f6k, and the lyrics \/ lyrics of the six songs that make up the album in question.<\/p>\n

Tracklisting:<\/p>\n

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  1. If I Were Happy<\/li>\n
  2. Organs of Virility<\/li>\n
  3. Sono morti<\/li>\n
  4. The Whip<\/li>\n
  5. Was It Me?<\/li>\n
  6. Exhausted<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    All the tracks composed and mastered by SIFIR at his home studio, Istanbul, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * All vocals by SIFIR except additional readings by Lori on track I and by Maurizio Crotti Fornaciari<\/strong> on track III.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * The lyrics for tracks I, II, IV, V are culled from Farid ud-Din Attar<\/strong>\u2019s The Conference of the Birds, circa 1177.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * The spoken excerpt in track I is from Samuel Beckett<\/strong>\u2019s The Unnameable, performed by Lori \/ https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5ksliMCrP3U<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * The lyrics for track III come from Antonin Artaud<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * The lyrics for track VI are selected freely from feminist, experimental, female Turkish writer, Sevim Burak\u2019s Everest My Lord, Istanbul: Adam Yay\u0131nc\u0131l\u0131k, 1984.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * Malfunctioning escalator in track II recorded by Umur \u00c7elikyay<\/span><\/p>\n

    * Roland Boutique JU-06 in track IV performed by Umur \u00c7elikyay \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    *The bass line in track VI, \u201cExhausted\u201d is a reference to Dave Holland\u2019s The Conference of the Birds which appeared in the album bearing the same title in 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n

    * Visual and technical support: Deniz Y\u0131lmazlar | Karbon<\/span><\/p>\n

    * Photography by Mehmet Ali Ta\u015fl\u0131<\/span><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

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    OUT NOW! SIFIR \/ ZAFER ARACAG\u00d6K :: 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 Aracag\u00f6k, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":215556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,298,291,101],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215954,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215952\/revisions\/215954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rizosfera.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}