Karma (Tarkan album)

Karma
Studio album by Tarkan
Released 23 July 2001
Recorded Recorded at Cutting Room (New York), Erekli Tunç (Istanbul), Etap (Cairo), Imaj (Istanbul), Miraval (Le Val, France), Pacifique (Los Angeles) studios
Genre Pop
Length 46:83
Label İstanbul Plak
Producer Tarkan and Ozan Çolakoğlu
Tarkan chronology
Tarkan (1999) Karma (2001) Dudu (2003)
Singles from Karma
  1. "Kuzu Kuzu"
    Released: May 2001 (Turkey)
  2. "Hüp"
    Released: December 2001 (Turkey)
  3. "Verme"
    Released: October 2002 (Turkey)

Karma is Tarkan's 2001 studio album. His fifth music project and his fourth original release, this album moved away from pop to worldbeat melodies fused with electronica sounds and became the all time sixth best selling album in Turkey. Apart from Turkey, album was released in many EU countries, USA and in Russia. By 2002 more than 2.5 million copies of this album was sold worldwide. The tour "Kuzu Kuzu" which began in January 2002 was very successful as well and Tarkan performed in 19 countries and gave 26 concerts.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Aşk (4:22)
  2. Ay (4:20)
  3. Kuzu Kuzu (3:53)
  4. Gitti Gideli (4:42)
  5. Uzak (4:46)
  6. Yandım (3:12)
  7. O'na Sor (3:23)
  8. Hüp (3:39)
  9. Sen Başkasın (4:16)
  10. Taş (4:24)
  11. Her Nerdeysen (3:30)
  12. Verme (4:56)

Album credits

Guest musicians

Music videos

Extra information

His successful musical collaborations with Sezen Aksu that created such songs as "Şımarık" and "Şıkıdım" is absent from this album. The album was recorded in Istanbul, Los Angeles, New York, Egypt and Europe. Seen as his attempt to push the ethnic style into the mainstream, with motifs taken from all across the world, commentators have labelled this as Tarkan's first authentic crossover project. The album's title Karma means mixed or crossover in Turkish, as well standing for the Karma philosophy behind the release.

As an introduction in the CD booklet, Tarkan explains the Karma philosophy and introduces the concept of using marbleization art on his album cover [2]. - courtesy of Ali Yildirim

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