Auf der anderen Seite - Original soundtrack (OST) [REPOST]

Serving as a simultaneous soundtrack and compilation, Auf Der Anderen Seite (Yaşamın Kıyısında) matches its topicality -- the German-Turkish co-production has its partial roots in the Turkish minority community that thrives in modern-day Germany -- with music that reflects the combination of past and the future at play. Coordinated by Shantel, who creates a number of shorter instrumentals throughout the disc (highlights including the spacy techno rampage of "Six Bars Later," all the more effective for being so brief), its wide range can be a bit herky-jerky as a listen, but with numerous highlights nonetheless. It begins and ends with two interpretations of an excellent song, "Ben Seni Sevdugumi," balancing out a modern-sounding, lower-key interpretation by Kazim Kayuncu and Sevval Sam with a older-sounding concluding take by Mackali Hasan Tunc, and with this as a model the disc explores from there. The contrasts avoid what has almost been a cliché of "traditional sounds/modern beats" around the world in favor of a variety of fusions, some taking on fresher takes of older styles straight up, such as Selim Sesler's energetic "Kasap Havasi," which a band such as Gogol Bordello could regard as a kindred effort. Meantime the Top 40-ready beats and slink of "I'll Smash Glasses" show that this is a 21st century collection, not a re-created 19th century one. Elsewhere there's reggae-tinged lopes via the Rootsman's "Ta Travudia," female chorales on "Heyamo," and Shantel's own superior take on the Afro Celt Sound System's styles with "Pietons -- Bucovina Dub." Traclist: 01. Ben Seni Sevdugumi - Kazim Koyuncu & Sevval Sam 02. Blacksea Trip - Shantel 03. Kasap Havasi (Butcher's Air) - Selim Sesler 04. Koupes - I'll smash Glasses - Shantel 05. Son Hatira - Nese Kara Böcek 06. Ta Travudia - Rootsman 07. Ayten & Airport - Shantel 08. Heyamo - Lazuri Birabape 09. Inel, Inel de Aur - Bucovina Dub - Shantel vs. Rona Hartner & DJ Click 10. Pietons - Bucovina Dub - Shantel feat.: Binder & Krieglstein 11. Olursem Yaziktir - Sezen Aksu 12. Eight Bars Later - Shantel 13. Ben Seni in Dub - Shantel vs. Kazim Koyuncu 14. Safak Türküsü - Ahmet Kaya 15. Çamburnu - Yusuf Kaba 16. Johann Sebastian Bach: Menuet in G-Major performed by John Bullard 17. Glazart Sea - Shantel 18. Six Bars Later - Shantel 19. Ben Seni Sevdugumi - Kazim Koyuncu 20. Lotte & Ayten - Shantel Total Duration: 01:04:17