Işık Doğudan Yükselir Explained

Işık Doğudan Yükselir
Type:	Album
Artist:	Sezen Aksu
Cover:	Sezen_Aksu_Ex_Oriente_Lux_album_cover.jpg
Released:	1995
Genre:	Pop
Label:	Foneks
Prev Title:	Deli Kızın Türküsü
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Düş Bahçeleri
Next Year:	1996

Işık Doğudan Yükselir (1995) is Sezen Aksu's twelfth Turkish release and one of her most commercially successful albums in Turkey. The album marked a change, explicitly engaging a variety of Turkish folk music styles. The CD was extremely popular, making something of public figure of Aksu, who was emerging as a public voice on a variety of matters.^[1]

Track listing

1. Işık Doğudan Yükselir (Music: Sezen Aksu and Onno Tunç) Soprano Sertab Erener (Yüksel) Tenor Süha Yıldız
2. Davet (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu and Yelda Karataş / Music: Attila Özdemiroğlu)
3. Son Sardunyalar (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu and Yelda Karataş / Music: Ara Dinkjiyan)
4. Alâturka (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu / Music: Fahir Atakoğlu)
5. Yaktılar Halim'imi (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu and Meral Okay / Music: Fahir Atakoğlu)
6. Rakkas (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu and Yelda Karataş / Music: Attila Özdemiroğlu) "Lyrics Rewritten for "Salla Salla" from the soundtrack of the film Arabesk"
7. Onu Alma Beni Al (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu / Music: Arto Tunçboyacıyan)
8. Yeniliğe Doğru (Lyrics: Mevlânâ / Music: Arto Tunçboyacıyan)
9. Ne Ağlarsın (Lyrics-Music: Âşık Dâimî)
10. Ben Annemi İsterim (Lyrics-Music: Sezen Aksu)
11. Var Git Turnam (Yar ko parag boyin mernem - Bingöl) (Lyrics: Sezen Aksu and Meral Okay / Armenian lyrics for the song "Bingöl" : A.İsahakian)
12. La İlahe İllallah (Lyrics: Yunus Emre / Music: Sezen Aksu)

References

1. Book: Jankovsky, Richard. 2015 . Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World . New York . Bloomsbury Academic . 90 . 978-1-5013-1146-8.