Azerbaijan and Petrol and Aygun!

While the gas prices are inching upwards, Azerbaijani pop music divahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Aygun released last year her song with Miri Yusif entitled "Petrol". I wanted to bring it to the attention of my readers. Aygun continues to amaze me with her music. Although some of my Azerbaijani friends tend to disagree and call her national disgrace for her very extravagant behavior, I still believe that enjoying her music is highly personal matter.





Her song called, "Veten Anadir" or "Homeland is mother" made me quite emotional about nostalgia that one feels as an immigrant to one's old country. Of course, the song that Aygun sang was in the context of Karabakh/Artsakh issue that is to this day has been divisive issue between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Her voice is indeed captivating.





Her other song that makes my soul cry and long for Azerbaijan and its warm people is called "Yol gedirəm". So from Petrol we are now taken on a road-trip.


The lyrics of this particular song make me thing of my own journey...
Dodaqlarımda təbəssüm
Bəbəylərimdə ümid və qürur
İçimdə ağlamaq ehtiyacı
Yol gedirəm yorulanadək..
Qarşımda sil-silə dağlar
Sərt qayalar, soyuq dəniz
Bir tək canla qürub çağı
Yol gedirəm yorulanadək..

Ovcumda sirr, barmaqlarımda qabar, ürəyimdir varım-yoxum
Ruhumda həzin lay-lay, başımda məğrub eşqim
Yol gedirəm yorulanadək..

Bom-boş bir səssizlik, nə sevgi, nə də nifrət
Qarşımda bir tək zalım gecə
Dünya, yiyə dur, qəribəm bir yol göstər
Bu dərdlərdən qurtulum necə?!

Yol gedirəm yorulanadək..








Her song with Namiq called bağlanmiram is also interesting as it depicts in a way Azerbaijani culture of complex relationships between a man and a woman. Baglanmaq means to be tied to something (one of the meanings).





I love her another song with a title "I am depressed" or "Depresiondayem". I simply love the melody and all that talk about Ayrliq, etc.