Page 18 - Resonance Magazine - Sezen Aksu

S x months after the release of Işık

Doğudan Yüksel r, Sezen Aksu
suffered a great loss. Her l felong
compan on and dear fr end Onno
Tunç passed away when the plane he
was p lot ng crashed. St ll gr ev ng the
trag c loss of Uzay Heparı, Aksu was
deeply shaken by th s news.

In the summer of 1996, n memory of
Onno, Aksu released Düş Bahçeler , an
nter m album n wh ch she performed

songs she had or g nally g ven to
other art sts.

On December 22, 1997, Aksu
released her fourteenth stud o album,
Düğün ve Cenaze, wh ch sparked
m xed react ons. W th a c rculat on of
280,000 cop es, t became the lowest-
sell ng Sezen Aksu album at the t me.
The album, named after Goran
Bregov ć's orchestra of the same
name, cons sted of Bregov ć's
compos t ons w th Turk sh lyr cs
penned by Sezen Aksu, Meral Okay,
and Pak ze Barışta.

A year later, at the end of 1998, Aksu
surpr sed those who m ssed her old
songs by releas ng the album Adı
Bende Saklı, f lled w th beaut ful
compos t ons n her class c style.
Rem n scent of the melanchol c and
somewhat arabesque Sezen Aksu
albums of the '80s, Adı Bende Saklı
was well rece ved by var ous
aud ences.

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