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Added: Feb 4, 2012
From: Khaartoum
Duration: 5:44
MORE 'KURDELE SERPIL BARLAS'LA SHOV' UPLOADING SOON ON KHAARTOUM CHANNEL... 'Ribbon with Serpil Barlas' was an amazing madcap eccentric afternoon Turkish television show on a small Istanbul station: FlashTV. It ran for three years between 1998 to 2001. Up to 2001, Turkish Nationalism was celebrated in a lot of TV and music. 2001 seemed to be a cultural 'watershed' for Turkey when piracy and copying closed the offices of International music companies like Universal - ending a lot of the quality expensive big-orchestra 'Fantazi' music that Turkey had enjoyed for a decade. Also, TV stations seemed to be taken over by advertising and 'the young generation' - all that was globalised and homogenised appeared to strip the media of the previously loved National Turkish Character. Serpil Barlas was a theatre actress in Istanbul in the 1960s, she made a number of pop albums in the 1970s and was a bit of a 'sex symbol'. She also writes poetry, lyrics and screenplays for cinema films like 'Kahpe Bizans' ['We Are Sometimes Byzantine']. Barlas moved to the USA for many years in the 1980s which was frowned upon by the public. Serpil returned to Turkey in the late 1990s as an older woman than the 'siren' she had left. She did not get a great welcome. However, she was offered 'Kurdele' talk show by FlashTV which ran for several years. 'Kurdele' was a unique and crazy television experience. The lack of technology at FlashTV combined with Serpil Barlas' 'full power' performances as 'Diva' [which now looking back in boring 2012, she actually was!]. 'Kurdele' had a never-ending selection of mediocre aged stars of yesteryear or rural acts singing ARABESK [Turkish Popular Music in the style of Arabic Music - hated by a lot of people by the 1990s for being too 'countryside']. The sets were originally blue and hand painted with moon and stars that were so cute! This clip shows the newer more 'urban' cheap temporary folded wood set. 'Kurdele Serpil Barlas'la' was aimed at middle-aged rural audiences and migrant workers in big cities. Serpil seemed, like many aged stars, still to belive that she was 'in the big time' even though the show by 2001 had become the butt of jokes on shows like 'Zaga' with Okan Bayülgen [a very sarcastic, funny and extreme Turkish presenter of 'Zaga' on Kanal D]. Serpil continued up to the last days of 'Kurdele' and told viewers she was shocked that the show was pulled, even though the viewing figures were so low. The great 'Turkish-ness' of 'Kurdele' and TRT4 [a government channel promoting Folk and Ottoman Music] are so striking now compared to the comparitively bland and Americanised television of Turkey today. Serpil Barlas promoted so many old stars on her program who were no doubt low fee, but they were still magical and had interesting things to say. 'Kurdele' also gave such a space to regional artists and Arabesk stars who often found it difficult to get invitations onto mass media in Turkey that had become more geared to middle class urban tastes. Serpil opened her show to promote some lovely colourful provincial stars like Huseyin Turan from Erzarum, a beautiful folk singer songwriter; Ankaralı Yasemin from the capital who sings in the folk style of 'Ankaralı Havası' ['The Wind of Ankara']; Fatih Urek a male belly dancer and singer; Eski Dostlar ['Old Friends'] a reunion band of old singers from the 1970s, and so on. 'Kurdele' promoted the great diversity of a wide variety of popular musics of Turkey at that time. Unfortunately, Turkey and tastes were changing to all things urban and American so 'Kurdele' and many other nationalistic programs were taken off the air around 2001. In this clip of 'Kurdele' Serpil Barlas is wearing a leather outfit - she wore a variety of clothes and accessories from various sponsors listed at the end of the program. The clothes were often as outrageous and wonderful as you see. The long blonde hair was one of her features, as was the heavy make up. Website: http://www.serpilbarlas.com/ Barlas was a great self-publicist and constantly promoted her own albums and work she did for charities. She was in some ways a sad character as she didn't realise that her youth was over. But, in many ways she was a joy because she was so unrestrained, didn't realise her age, didn't care what she looked like and imagined she was young and desirable and beautiful. Serpil talked endlessly which was always fun and she had so many catch-phrases like 'Positiv Enerjy!' Khaartoum Channel acts as an educational archive of rare commercial East-West artists plus a showcase for Khaartoum songs by my friends and I, or just myself, inspired by East-West media. The aim is to inspire composers with commercial forms in national styles. Khaartoum Channel Encourages People to SUPPORT THE ARTS and BUY THE ORIGINAL. No copyright infringement is intended presenting this video for educational purposes. All rights to FLASHTV, ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
Channel: Entertainment
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