Listening To: Dertli Dolap

Quiet, meditative, but captivating performance. He's playing a cura, singing a song attributed to Sufi Yunus Emre (1238–1320), called Benim Adim Dertli Dolap. Apparently the lyrics are heavily metaphorical, with the title being translated as "My name is endless trouble" or "The troubled water wheel", as the opening line seeks to compare human advancement (especially technological) with endless toil, futility.

I was originally linked to this video roughly seven years ago, and it remains one of my favorite Internet treasures. A style of music and a window onto a life I never would have experienced without the Internet.