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Hello Erina, Manu and everyone who reads,

I came back to home after visiting my grandfather. It was a nice visiting for me.

The place where my ancestors lived along the centuries is a countryside of Malatya. At first I would like to give some short information about Malatya which is located in southeastern Turkey. Malatya is well-known for its apricot orchards as being the world’s leading apricot producer and the name of the fruit is synonymous with the city itself. Additional to that, Malatya prides itself for having raised two out of the eleven Presidents of Turkey to date.

Let’s come to my visiting notes, after the short infos of Malatya. Our journey lasted 16 hours to get the central of Malatya from İstanbul by bus.

Before going to the countryside where my grandfather lives, we spent most of the times of our first day in the central of Malatya and bought the necessary things to bring with us to there. The temperature reached to 40C at that day (If I am not mistaken) but It was very bearable owing to having dry summer in Malatya.

Manu, I was looking forward to eating ‘kağıt kebabı’ where I ate last year but I was disappointed to see it was closed ( probably for the time being in order to have
the building repaired or painted) so that we went for another restaurant and ate the same local dish but it was not as delicious as I ate last year.
Manu, ‘Kağıt kebabı’ is one of the most important local specialities which is a dish made of lamb and vegetables broiled in a wrapper, which is usually oily paper.

Here is a Picture of us taken in the restaurant:

After that we went to the best part of the city named Kernek where I love visiting much .

And then we left Malatya in order to go to countryside. At first It took an hour to get the central after departure of Malatya then we hired a taxi to go to exact place of where we want to go. It took almost 20 min by taxi. As you can imagine it was a long journey to get the exact place where my grandfather lives. Here is a Picture of where I went exactly.

How nice it was to see my grandfather again after a year later. As he is the person, I adore and have a great respect to my lovely, hardworking, considerate and kind grandfa. If I keep on writting Erina about him, believe me, I will write so many adjectives in order to describe what I see in my grandfather so that it might take pages but writting roughly is enough, is not it, Erina?
Despite his age, I saw him fine and healthy. Thanks God!

I and my grandfather chatted a lot together as always. I had to speak loudly. Otherwise he does not hear properly owing to his age so instead I listened to him.

And what comes to my mind now is the barbecue we had . Here are a few pictures of the place.

Dear readers, While we were there, the water did not reach the taps of houses for four days owing to cleaning of reservoir. We had to go to fountain to bring water to home. During centuries people used to carry water from fountains to their houses till they had taps in their houses. Here is the fountain I went. The water is cold and tasty especially under the sun.

By the way, almost each house has a cat. This is the cat of my grandmother’s (my father’s mum). I do not like cats.

What about this family.
They are escaping from me while I was trying to take a Picture of them!
I only took pictures of my very near around. I did not stroll around this year instead I was at home or nearby home so near to my grandfather.

And my mum and my father’s sister making (traditional) bread outside.

And the day came to hug and say ‘goodbye’ to eachother with my grandfather. Our journey lasted almost 14 hours to get back to IstanbuI by car which was driven by my mum’s brother.
We gave breaks according to our desires on the way , so that we stopped at Hacı Bektash Veli (Hajji Bektash Wali) Museum in Nevşehir. It was my second time to be there while it was the first time for the rest of the group.

Dear all, Hajji Bektash Wali is widely known as a Sufi and social reformer who initiated equality between the sexes, equal opportunity and education for women, and a down-to-earth mystical practice that is formulated in the famous quotation: "Be master of your tongue, your hand, and your stomach." He lived approximately from 1209-1271 in Anatolia.

Here is a summary of his lifeview which was also written in the Museum I was.

• Any road that doesn’t follow science, ends in darkness,

• Give education to women,
• Control on your tongue, hands and waist,
• The greatest book to read is man himself,
• Honesty is the door of a friend,
• Being a teacher is to give, not to take,
• The universe is for man, and man for the universe,
• Science illuminates the paths of truth,
• We travel in the way of science, comprehension and human love,
• Clean where you’ve settled and deserve the money you’ve made,

• Let’s be one, be big and energetic,
• Don’t hurt anyone, even though you’ve been hurt,
• Don’t ask anyone for anything that would be difficult for you to do,
• Don’t blame any nation or individual,
• Blessed are those who illuminate the darkness of thought,
• Keep on searching, and you’ll find,
• The beauty of the face consists of the words you speak,
• Don’t forget that even your enemy is human,

• The biggest God-given miracle is work,
• In the language of friendly conversation, you can’t discriminate
between man and woman,
• Everything God has created is in order,
• To us, there’s no difference between man and woman,
• If you think there is, you’re mistaken.

I sat nearby his tomb and represented my regards to him and his fellow’s and I prayed. Here is a Picture taken inside the building. When one passes through the door, one finds oneself in front of his tomb.

That’s all for this month.

Take care of yourselves,

Demet

The Majestic High

「See Her Fall」 from V.A/Half Dreaming

待っていたんです、私。去年からマイスペで聴き続けている「See Her Fall」を…。韓国の男女二人組（男性はアメリカ人みたいですね）のシューゲイザーユニット。クインスさんからリリースされたアジアのシューゲイザーバンドのコンピレーションに1曲目にはいってきた。僕はこの曲が聴きたいがために買いました。私は1曲買いできる人です。たとえ何万しても今まで買っていますなんて関係ないか。数少ないバーズ派の僕としては、バーズの影響を感じさせる曲調・2分にも満たないが練られたアレンジが堪りません。私は自分のステレオで聴ける事が素直にうれしい。

他のアジアのアーティストもなかなか。マレーシアのwitherspoonとか

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Ólafur Arnalds

「Variations Of Static」

アイスランド共和国出身の男性アーティストによる2007年の1stに続くミニアルバム的なEP（レコードはクリアヴァイナル10インチ）。悲しくも儚いのに意思の強さだけは感じさせる音たち。クラシックをベースに繰り広げられる音楽は実にシネマ向き。私が映画監督だったら是非オファーしたいくらいです。なんて。1stの「Eulogy for Evolution」も素晴らしいが時々ノイジーになるなぁ〜（若いからか？）。才能ありありの天才だよアンタ。交互に聴き続けております。

LPは限定なのでお早めに

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Dear All,

How are you while you are on the way which is long and narrow?

(http://www.yeniresim.com/cat276.htm)

I would like to share a short story with you which was adopted from the book of The Alchemist. Here it is:

The two drops of oil

A merchant sent his son to learn the Secret of Happiness from the wisest of men. The young man wandered through the desert for forty days until he reached a beautiful castle at the top of a mountain. There lived the sage that the young man was looking for.

However, instead of finding a holy man, our hero entered a room and saw a great deal of activity; merchants coming and going, people chatting in the corners, a small orchestra playing sweet melodies, and there was a table laden with the most delectable dishes of that part of the world.

The wise man talked to everybody, and the young man had to wait for two hours until it was time for his audience.

With considerable patience, he listened attentively to the reason for the boy’s visit, but told him that at that moment he did not have the time to explain to him the Secret of Happiness.

He suggested that the young man take a stroll around his palace and come back in two hours’ time.

“However, I want to ask you a favour,” he added, handing the boy a teaspoon, in which he poured two drops of oil. “While you walk, carry this spoon and don’t let the oil spill.”

The young man began to climb up and down the palace staircases, always keeping his eyes fixed on the spoon. At the end of two hours he returned to the presence of the wise man.

“So,” asked the sage, “did you see the Persian tapestries hanging in my dining room? Did you see the garden that the Master of Gardeners took ten years to create? Did you notice the beautiful parchments in my library?”

Embarrassed, the young man confessed that he had seen nothing. His only concern was not to spill the drops of oil that the wise man had entrusted to him.

“So, go back and see the wonders of my world,” said the wise man. “You can’t trust a man if you don’t know his house.”

Now more at ease, the young man took the spoon and strolled again through the palace, this time paying attention to all the works of art that hung from the ceiling and walls. He saw the gardens, the mountains all around the palace, the delicacy of the flowers, the taste with which each work of art was placed in its niche. Returning to the sage, he reported in detail all that he had seen.

“But where are the two drops of oil that I entrusted to you?” asked the sage.

Looking down at the spoon, the young man realized that he had spilled the oil.

“Well, that is the only advice I have to give you,” said the sage of sages. “The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.”

We, all, are striving for happiness while going ahead on the road, putting it to another word, path, aren’t we? I leave this topic to later times to talk about….

Anyway…

At the previous essay of mine, I translated a part of Turkish poem whose title is ‘On a long, narrow road’. I would like to put the videoclip where Asik Veysel is displaying while singing the whole poem with saz which is considered the Turkish national instrument and used to accompany folk song and dance. A Picture of saz is just below.

And here is the song:

Hope you like listenning to song. As of me, I do not play saz but I love listenning Turkish folk music very much. Music is universal,isn’t it? I suppose, one does not need knowing the whole song or the language of song but I suppose it is about emotions which can be captured easily. Music erases the borders.

By the way, listenning to the song which is just below even when I am sad or bored makes me smile.

The song is ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ sung by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Let’s listen to it and sing together.

It is a fantastic song, isn’t it?

Dear All, I will not be going somewhere over the rainbow but I will be visiting the place where the very precious grandfather of mineand some other relatives live. I would like to report some things from there next month.

That’s all for this month.

May love always be a guide in every moment of your life,

To be continued…

Demet

Advantage Lucy
「白い朝」

最近久々にでたニューシングル（HP限定）ここ数日はこればっかり聴いてます。インディに戻ってから落ち着いた感がありますが、曲は相変わらずよいですね！　ＮＨＫの「スイスイ！フィジー」のオープニングソングぐらいしか、ルーシーの曲が聴けてなかったので、うれしいな。早くアルバムだしてくれぇぇ。チョコラBBの曲とかは入んないんだろうな～。「windy sunny friday」とか入った編集盤とかでないかなぁ～。

特殊加工のジャケット。繊細な紙らしいので、やさしく扱わなければ。

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Nadja
「リリースされたものすべて」

カナダの二人組Doomトリオで、最近かなりの枚数をリリースしていて個人的に入手が追いつけません（限定多いしなぁ）。一般的にDoom Metalというと悪魔的な想像をしますが、僕は逆に神々しい感覚を覚えます（神々しい音楽のほうには胡散臭さを感じちゃう）。音的には1曲10分～20分ぐらいで、断片的に聴いてしまうとどの曲も同じに聴こえてしまいますが、ちゃんと最初から最後まで聴けば組曲の域でしょう。音響シューゲイズドゥームというか、なんと言うか…かなり深い音楽です。もう虜になっております。

他バンドとのスピリット。限定500枚で同内容のCD付き

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Dear All,
The heat and humidity are very up in summers in Turkey. You can not imagine how sunny days we are passing through nowadays. Luckily the wind makes the weather cooler, especially at nights. I sometimes enjoy much with sitting at the balcony of our flat at the evenings. Wind, a few stars at the sky above me and from the distance Marmara Sea and the colour of blue (both sky and sea) give me a great pleasure under such weather conditions.
Yesterday some verses of Asik Veysel , who is a blind Turkish poet, came into my mind when I was at the balcony. These verses had been listened by me somehow at that day. Here is some verses of this poem:

” I am on a long, narrow road,
Going night and day,
I do not know how I feel,
I just go night and day.
***
The moment I came into this earth,
I walked at the same time,
In a double-gated inn,
Going night and day.
***
…………………………….”

Dear all, Is not life a long, narrow road? Inn, so called world itself, has only two gates. The first gate symbolizes ‘birth’ while the last and second gate symbolizes ‘death’. We go on the road of no return.
Dear all, What exactly is life? People like to say this ‘life is hard to define’.
This question always makes my mind puzzle when I especially look outside to world and look inside of mine. Each of us gives different answers but the answers are probably focused on some fixed words such us happiness, peace, health, love, joy, travelling,money, family… so on…
How busy life do we, human being, lead? Many times we do not ask such questions to ourselves, or have no time to find the answers or maybe instead of us, life itself gives the answers for us. Who knows? Life and human being are complex and complicated, aren’t they? Maybe the answer is so simple but blur!
As being a youth, my definition towards life is likely different from a person who is middle-aged or elderly.Elderly people tend to be very different from people who are at other stages of life when it comes to thinking about ‘life’ and making ‘definations’. This is the times when one finds oneself more thinking over past and occurrence of world, life and such things more than ever. What I have seen mostly is that when I look at elderly.
Dear readers, One day when I was reading a newspaper which is nearly 10 years ago, a nice poem took my attention. I teared it up in order to keep it. I have to admit that I do not remember in which book it is now but I remember very well what was written on the small piece of paper. Would you like to read? If yes, please, go on reading my essay. It is a wonderful poem written by Jorge Luis Borges.

Instants
If I could live again my life,
In the next - I’ll try,
- to make more mistakes,
I won’t try to be so perfect,
I’ll be more relaxed,
I’ll be more full - than I am now,
In fact, I’ll take fewer things seriously,
I’ll be less hygenic,
I’ll take more risks,
I’ll take more trips,
I’ll watch more sunsets,
I’ll climb more mountains,
I’ll swim more rivers,
I’ll go to more places - I’ve never been,
I’ll eat more ice creams and less (lime) beans,
I’ll have more real problems - and less imaginary
ones,
I was one of those people who live
prudent and prolific lives -
each minute of his life,
Offcourse that I had moments of joy - but,
if I could go back I’ll try to have only good moments,

If you don’t know - thats what life is made of,
Don’t lose the now!

I was one of those who never goes anywhere
without a thermometer,
without a hot-water bottle,
and without an umberella and without a parachute,

If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I’ll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I’ll ride more carts,
I’ll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,
- and I know that I am dying …

A man who is at the age of 85 looks back on days which were left behind. He starts making sentences which begin with ‘If’. I am 26 years old but I,too, have ‘If’sss… in my life, but not much like that. What about you? We, human being, can’t get away from this fact. Each of us will have ‘If’s at any moment of life. Because human being is not satisfactory. Especially when we come to this age, we would write our own ‘If’s like this poem. Maybe same lines or maybe absolutely different ones would be written.

And The title of the poem which means ‘moments’ advises us to live ‘moments’ more deeply, in an exciting way. Yes, we have to be aware of the value of ‘moments’ with taking lessons from past and having ideas about future. We should not forget ‘the balance’ while living the moment.

There might be wonderful chances appear in front of us, If we are aware of our ‘If’sss before too late. These are the chances for not to do the same and try to change the things to the directions we want to see, so that we can get rid of the ‘If’sss, we do not want to say in the life. We might be whether successful or not but it is worth giving a try, isn’t it? Or maybe it could be a good option not to think about our ‘If’sss but just go on life… And also sometimes there might be no turning but it is the time to take a lesson from it for future for not to do the same mistakes, isn’t it? Or There could be nothing left to do just like what the poem says at the last verses! This is life!

Life is so complicated. I have been in search of what the life exactly is till the last breath I will give and from time to time I will probably forget asking this question to myself owing to life itself I lead but I am sure I (will) have things to say about life.

I want to end my essay with a saying of John Lennon which is ‘ Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans’. I agree with it. What do you think of?

That’s all for this month.
Take very good care of yourselves,

Demet

P.S. The poem is copied from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/instants/

My Bloody Valentine
「Box set発売延期　～予約してたけど、こうなるだろうと思ってたよ～」

まぁ～皆さん、こうなる事は安易に予測できたとは思いますが…。個人的予想としては、ケヴィンが亡くなってから、他人が勝手にリマスターしたものが数十年後にリリースされるのではないかと…まずそうならない限り無理でしょう。あ～これで何回目なんだろう。未発表聴きたかったなぁ～。レコード会社がフランスでプレスした完全未発表の音源とかはいるのかなぁ～。93年か94年に一度だけ盤屋で見た事あるんだよな…。8000円くらいだったな。買っときゃよかった。あとはブートでした聴けないもんなぁ～。くうやしい。みんな待ってるんだよ～！　モヤモヤしながら昔の音源聴いています。

僕の愛しきレコードたち（ブートじゃないですよ）

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Midsummer
「inside the Trees」

カナダのバンド「Midsummer」の自主制作の1stアルバムをご紹介。
全体的印象はインディロックの感触ですが、なによりも美メロに尽きます。
ドラマティックに展開する楽曲たち（曲のタイプ的にはポストロック的だったり、エモっぽかったり）、幅広いのにちゃんと一枚聴かせる統一感があるアレンジ。そして何より、音に無限の広がりを感じさせるところに心をチクンとさせられちゃいます。インディ～エモ好きな方はもちろんの事、叙情系など好きな方も試してください。完全な自主製作みたいなので、大手レコード販売店では入手できないみたいです。東京のライナスレコードさんで入手できるはずです。

フロントジャケット。中の写真もキレイです

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今度は、リンク先より実際に紹介されている音楽を聴くこともできるようになりました。

デラシネとは根なし草の意味。恋人と楽しくお茶をしている時、またはソファーに佇みながらゆっくり読書をしている時に、 リラックスできる空間を創り上げる音楽たちを、根なし草のようにジャンルに関係なく紹介していきます。

*プロフィール*
レコード愛好家＆エディトリアルデザイナー。幼い時からレコードを愛しつづけ、その幅広さはジャンルを問わない。

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