''Önsöz'' (''Foreword'') is the seventh studio album by Turkish singer Gülşen. It was released on 22 December 2009 by

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Content and release

The album consisted of 11 songs in total, ten of which were written and composed by Gülşen herself, who took inspiration from the events in her own life when preparing the lyrics. It was recorded at Sarı Ev studios and produced and arranged by Ozan Çolakoğlu. Aside from its new songs, the album contains a cover of "Dillere Düşeceğiz Seninle", which was originally performed by Nazan Öncel for her 1994 album ''Ben Böyle Aşk Görmedim''. The songs "Bi' An Gel" and "Ezberbozan" ranked first and third on Türkçe Top 20 respectively. "Önsöz" and "Dillere Düşeceğiz Seninle" were also among the top 10 on the official chart, occupying the sixth and tenth place respectively.

Music videos

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directed three of the album's four music videos: "Bi' An Gel", "Ezberbozan", and "Dillere Düşeceğiz Seninle". The music video for "Ezberbozan" was shot at Film Sokağı in Istanbul. Her new image and appearance in the video was compared by some to that of American actress

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. For the hippie-themed music video of the song "Önsöz", Gülşen worked with the stylist Ceyda Balaban. The music video was directed by Murat Onbul.

Reception

Mehmet Tez of ''

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'' praised the graphic design and style of the album's cover, and found it suitable for Gülşen's style. He also believed that her collaboration with Ozan Çolakoğlu was a key factor for the album's success, yet added that she should avoid putting songs from completely different genres in one album.

Track listing

All of the songs were written and composed by Gülşen, unless stated otherwise.

Personnel

* Gülşen – singer-songwriter * Ozan Çolakoğlu – producer, composer , arranger, keyboard, programming, backing vocals * Nazan Öncel – songwriter * Erdem Sökmen – guitar * Mehmet Akatay – percussion * Ömer Aslan – percussion * Cengiz Ercümer – percussion * Fatih Ahıskalı – oud,

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* Ahmet Türkmenoğlu – bass * Motor Ali Yılmaz –

bağlama The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Khazar, Central Asia including Germany, France, Belgium, TRNC, Netherlands, Albania, Greece,Bosnia, Serbia, Croat ...

* Gündem –

Bowed string instrument Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow (music), bow rubbing the string (music), strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound. Despite the numerous spe ...

s * Özgür Yurtoğlu – electric guitar * Serdar Barçın –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

* Eyüp Hamiş – ney ,

kaval The kaval is a Diatonic and chromatic, chromatic end-blown flute, end-blown oblique flute traditionally played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and ...

* Cihan Okan – backing vocals * Eda Pala – backing vocals * Ercüment Vural – backing vocals * Yeşim Vatan – backing vocals * Emir – backing vocals * Kaan – backing vocals * Emirhan Cengiz – recording * Seda Seber – recording * Bahadır Sağdaş –

string instruments In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some ...

group recording * Özgür Yurtoğlu – mixing * Chris V. Rautenkranz – mastering *

– photographs, graphic design * Ceyda Balaban – image, concept * Seyit Karakaş – hair * Yıldırım Özdemir – hair * Erkan Uluç – make-up * Republica – graphic design * Onur Ofset – printing Credits adapted from ''Önsöz''s album booklet.''Önsöz'' (album booklet). Gülşen.

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Release history

References

External links

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