SAYGIYLA
PİSLİK SİSTEM
bu ülkede kimlere
sanatçı deniyor
gerçek
değerler
çekip giderken
paranın
peşinde koşan küçük beyinler
sanatı tekelleri
altına alan para
babaları
hepinizin amına
koim
ne hale getirdiniz
lan sanatı ve
sanatçıyı
kabzımal beyinliler
ATATÜRK DEMEDİ
Mİ SİZLERE ÜLKENİN
HAYAT
DAMARLARINDAN
BİRİ SANATTIR
KOPARMAYIN
DİYE
ne yapıyorsunuz
lan?..
o gün geldiğinde
tükürüğümüzde
boğulacaksınız
İBNETORLAR
SİKİK
BEYİNLİLER
BU TOPLUM BİR GÜN
SİLKİNİP
KENDİNE GELECEK
VE SİZİ
SİKECEK
dahası sizde
tanrıya intikal edeceksiniz
o alacak kuş beyinli
canınızı
RAHAT UYU
YAVUZ
METALCİLERDE
BİR GÜN
UYANACAK
Yavuz Çetin
was born in Samsun on 25 September 1970. He began to play the
saz at the age of ten. He attended classes at the Marmara University
Department of Music. He played guitar and sang with numerous bands
during this period. In the nineties he formed the Blue Blues Band,
which played the club circuit of Istanbul to high acclaim, and Yavuz was
hailed by many as a guitarist on par with the best. He played his highly
individual guitar style in numerous recordings by a variety of recording
artists and recorded his first album “İlk” in 1997 and later
“Satılık” in 2001, both of which feature songs penned by him.
He had been playing lead guitar with the veteran pop group MFÖ since
the late nineties until just before his untimely demise. Yavuz has a
ten-year-old son named Yavuzcan.
Yavuz’s musicianship featured, besides extraordinary sensitivity and genius, a form of aesthetic honesty rather uncommon in this country. With his beautiful face, gentle personality and his angelic voice combined, he could have long ago opted to market himself as a pop star, and would have continued to live in prosperity. Yet Yavuz lived – and died – like a true blues man. He never compromised neither his music nor his commitment as an artist.
We, his friends, with the support of his ex-wife and Yavuzcan’s mother Didem Mandabaş envisaged a “little homage concert,” to his memory, and to raise funds for young Yavuzcan, and began to call artist friends. However, the list that emerged was thought provoking. Practically every performing artist that has become successful without making concessions to the market was either dear old friends of Yavuz (Teoman, Şebnem Ferah) or musicians he had worked with (MFÖ, Erkan Oğur), or artists who were fans or admirers (Pentagram) and each of these would like to take part in such a concert. The more we contemplated the situation, the further we realized that any such enterprise involving Yavuz went well beyond our original notion of a “little homage concert,” extending into a festival that brings together the best musicians in Turkey, where Yavuz’s identity becomes a symbol of true musicianship. This is to such an extent that when we looked at the list we realized that a two- or even three-day festival was needed to accommodate all these artists, and we had to pare down the list to fit a single day. Thus we plan to hold the “Homage to Yavuz Çetin Concert” on Yavuz Çetin’s 32nd birthday, 25 September 200X, at the Maslak Venue.
Simultaneously another project came into view: The 23-piece repertoire included in the two albums Yavuz left us – besides the surprising proficiency in lyrics, compositions, arrangements and performance – also embodied an extensive musical spectrum, such that virtually each participating artist could cover his songs in their respective styles. Starting from this fact, we envisioned a “Yavuz Çetin Tribute Album”, of recordings made from the concert of songs the artists have selected to cover from the Yavuz Çetin repertoire.
Following these projects we would like to install an annual “Yavuz Çetin Guitar Award” so that future generations will remember him as the fine musician he was, and the greatest guitarist this country produced.
