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Ataraxia - Funeral in Datça

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Channel: Breath of the Wild · 2011 · Music

From full-lenght Sueños, 2001.
Official review by Ataraxia:
"Funeral in Datça". Some summers ago we found ourselves in a peninsula in the south-west of Turkey and we decided to visit an antique Greek site. On the way along a cleared and dusty road we heard laments and saw a long line of people moving with an ondulatory movement. It was a modest and dignified Moslem funeral, the thing that most struck us was that coffin of unusual dimensions, of a warm colour, a bright brown with on top a rainbow-coloured carpet. My eyes are still wandering with this ondulating coffin that was travelling quickly on the hands of those people who were passing it each other. The little envelope was sailing lightly and shining between the earth and the sky in the spreading of the crowd. I remember also the long braids of the women, young and old, red braids, black, auburn, brilliant like the threads of the carpet on the flying little coffin. I felt that sooner or later I'll have to write this memory and the lyrics came first, then the music, a march with deep vocals and then a rising up into the limpid air.
Wikipedia info:
Datça is a district of Muğla Province in south-west Turkey, and the center town of the district. The center is situated midway through the peninsula which carries the same name as the district and the town (Datça Peninsula).
In Turkish literature, Datça is associated with the poet and the accomplished translator (notably of Shakespeare) Can Yücel who spent the last decades of his life in Datça and is also buried here.

Lyrics:
Funeral In Datça

Unable to decipher
categories and constants
neither grey nor light-blue
white
I am free
to remind you
to remind...

Ataraxia - Funeral in Datça

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