If both are folk songs…it doesn't matter what language or mode…they are brothers…

If both are people…it doesn't matter what religion, language or race…they are brothers…

And thus it is going on…the funny, coy and fragile story behind the mountains behind the mountains…Kardes Turkuler (the folk songs brothers) is keeping these touchy funny fairy-tale people alive….away from the horrible loneliness behind the mountains…from being lonesome and the funniest sides of death…they always witness and moreover even add words to my words…the story I'm telling grows with the music of my brothers, so that my brothers can watch, listen to…
To me, Kardes Turkuler is a group of friends, one more genuine and interesting than the other…All like themselves…Neither is somebody resembling them nor do they try to resemble anybody…they really like making music but they don't like to sell it…this is exactly the best way to make good music and thanks God it sells good…but our duty is to understand and value Anatolian folk songs not to sell them…

They each make group music by putting their own individual attitude in each sound they produce. ..

Kardes Turkuler is creating a sincere, lovely and high-quality harmony out of Anatolian sounds…

They have put an Anatolian musical into the fairy tale of "Vizontele" which started to be sung 4 years ago... And you can't get enough of this fairy tale…this harmony, this brotherhood…these folk songs…these poems…these films will of course go on…

As long as this fairy tale goes on the folk songs will of course be performed by my brothers…

YILMAZ ERDOGAN

We approached the "Vizontele" project, which was our first film experience, positively, as firstly it was a new field to us and secondly because it described the 'eastern' geographical part, which we very well know, and the people of this geographical part in a humorous way.

The fact that "Vizontele Tuuba" is a continuing film and telling the story about people whose paths crossed around September 12, which was a historic and tragic point of time, brought musical difficulties right from the start. It had to be done by both keeping the common language of the musical-visual relationship, which was caught in the first film and because of the topic by finding new perspectives. We think that the Kardes Turkuler edit is not only providing traditional songs but also a continuing framework with composition drafts in different forms and languages.

Cinema is a point of contact which adds important value and profit to both sides if the relation of 'music and image' is established within the right concept. In this sense, just like the first film, "Vizontele Tuuba" again was a very important experience for us. We'd like to thank Yılmaz Erdogan and the "Vizontele Tuuba" crew for sharing this experience with us.

Kardes Turkuler
Bogazici Image Arts Group