Tarkan Translations: Tarkan (France/Europe)

Album Credits
Track Listing
Song Lyrics (Turkish & English) [Flash Player required]
Release Notes
Album art at Tarkan Visual
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Album Credits
Genre: Pop, World
Release Date(s): 1998, 1999
Formats: MC, CD
Label: PolyGram/Universal and others

Producer: Mehmet Sögütoğlu
Arranger, Keyboard & Producer (for Track 3 in re-release: see release notes and Track 4): Laurent Marimbert
Production Assistants: Gael Yvan, Stéphane Briand
Music Direction, Orchestration, Keyboard & Rhythm Composition, Piano: Ozan Çolakoğlu
Orchestration (Track 12): Nail Yavuzoğlu
Vocals: Can Erkencigil, Cihan Okan, Deniz Arcak, Ebru Aydın, Levent Yüksel, Nalan, Nazire Yağız, Özkan Uğur, Seda-Sabri Tüfekçi, Şebnem Ferah, Sertab Erener, Tarkan, Ümit Sayin
Guitar (Acoustic): David Matos, Erdem Sökmen, Erdinç Şenyaylar
Guitar, Guitar (Electric): David Matos, Manu Vergeade (Track 4)
Bass: İsmail Soyberk, Levent Yüksel, Laurent Vernerey (Track 4), James Cruz, Murat Ejder
Lute: İlyas Tetik, Hüseyin Bitmez
Violin: Mustafa Süder, Karen Brunon (Track 4), Şenyaylar Strings Group, Istanbul Smphony Orchestra (Track 12)
Clarinet: Bülent Altınbaş
Horn: Ertuğrul Köse
Percussion: Aydın Karabulut, Denis Benarrosch (Track 4)
Drums: Hamdi Akatay, Shawn Pelton, Sedat Güvenir, Loic Pontieux (Track 4)
Bongos, Castanets, Drums, Bendir: Seyfi Ayta
Darbuka: Celal Bağlan, Cengiz Ercümer
Zither: Tamer Pınarbaşı
Engineering & Mixing: Yves Jaget
Assistants: Yann Baehrel, Claire Schwab, Jean Leguay, Stéphane Briand, Gael Yvan
Studio: ADS Studio & Guillaume Tell Studio
Malagutti Remix (see release notes): Gianluigi Tarnassi
Editing: Çağlar Türkmen, Duyal Karagözoğlu, Özgür Buldum, Serhan Keser
Mastering: Çağlar Türkmen
Photography: Laure Maud, Claude Gassian
Design: Alerte Orange

Track Listing: [click here for the English translations to these songs]

1. Şımarık (Aksu/Çolakoğlu/Tarkan)	[3:10]
2. Ölürüm Sana (Tarkan)	[4:05]
3. Kır Zincirlerini or depending on edition Bu Gece - Remix '99 (Tarkan)	[5:29] [3:53]
4. Şıkıdım (Hepsi Senin Mi?) (Aksu)	[3:15]
5. Salına Salına Sinsice (Tarkan)	[3:55]
6. İkimizin Yerine (Aksu/Tarkan)	[4:40]
7. İnci Tanem (Tarkan)	[5:38]
8. Dön Bebeğim (Sayin)	[4:45]
9. Başına Bela Olurum (Tarkan)	[4:12]
10. Gül Döktüm Yollarina (Tarkan)	[4:08]
11. Unut Beni (Tarkan)	[5.27]
12. Beni Anlama (Barista/Çolakoğlu)	[5:22]
13. Delikanlı Çağlarım (Tarkan/US Folk)	[3:42]
14. Şımarık (Long Version) or depending on edition Şımarık (Malagutti Remix) (Aksu/Çolakoğlu/Tarkan)	[3:54] [4:49]
15. Bu Gece (Kır Zincirlerini) (Tarkan)	[5:29]

Release Notes
Tarkan's first international album is a compilation album of his two previous albums A-acayipsin and Ölürüm Sana released when he was offered an international licensing deal after the head of the French arm of PolyGram heard his Ölürüm Sana album, bought by a friend as a holiday memento.

In 1999, the sales of this album won Tarkan a World Music Award in Monaco.

The tracklist to the Tarkan album varies slightly depending on country and year of release. The first release has a 14 song track list, the re-release has 15 tracks. In some countries the album was released with the original album version of "Şımarık" as the opening track and the Malagutti remix of "Şımarık" as the 14th (final) track. A limited edition of the 14 track European release came with an autograph by Tarkan and a message "With love and big kisses".

The re-release of the Tarkan album saw a name change and an additional track. Track number 3 was renamed "Bu Gece" (Kır Zincirlerini) - Remix '99 (taken from the single) and the original version of "Bu Gece" was placed as the 15th (final) track.

Music videos filmed after the release of this album were for those tracks released as singles. To correspond with this album's European release, the videos were all European productions -

Şımarık; Dir: Emmanuel Saada/Amagan 7 Productions
Şıkıdım; Dir: Yannick Saillet/C'est La Vie Productions
Kır Zincirlerini (Bu Gece); Dir: Amagan 7 Productions

Videos filmed for the other two album releases this album was complied from, all being Turkish productions, were -

A-acayipsin album

Hepsi Senin Mi?; Dir: Hazım (to be later renamed Şıkıdım for the European market)
Dön Bebeğim; Dir: Abdullah Oğuz
Gül Döktüm Yollarına (This was filmed for a new year show on TV, is not an official video and therefore difficult to find on the Net.)

Ölürüm Sana album