Discography

Ali Doğan Gönültaş
Kiğı. 9th June 2023. Mapamundi Música. Edition in CD with pictures, booklet and access to exclusive online content.

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Ali Doğan Gönültaş
Kiğı. 2022. Self-produced. Digital edition.
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In May of 2022, Ali Doğan Gönültaş released Kiğı, his first solo and self-produced album that emerged as a result of more than ten years of field research. The work, which is a personal look at the 150-year musical process of Kiğı, the musician’s birthplace, consists of works in the regional languages of Krmancki, Kurmanci, Kirdaski, Armenian, and Turkish. This thematic album consists of stylized performances accompanied by ethnomusicological data, with the goal of providing a discourse and a voice to remember despite the fading of memory. The project evolved from an “oral history” motivation into a musical memory work.

In the project, which includes thematic and technical music forms, thematic contents such as Govend, lament, job songs, Xerîbîyê and prayer forms are conveyed with the modal characteristics of the region.