''Dudu'' is a 2003
extended play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record. album by
Tarkan. This was his first album to be released through his own record label, HITT Music. It holds five songs and five remixes.
Musicmoz
/ref> The album was published in Europe and Asia. The sales of the album exceeded 4.1 million copies worldwide, of which over 2.5 million were sold in Turkey alone. To support the album, beginning in November 2003 Tarkan gave solo performances in Turkey and other countries. In 2004 as part of Dudu World tour Tarkan visited Austria, Germany, France, United States, Ukraine
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, Russia, Finland
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, the Netherlands
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, Azerbaijan
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and Kazakhstan
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.
Track listing
*Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım (Remix)
Album credits
* Personnel Crew:
** Production: Hitt Music
** Produced by: Tarkan
** Distributor: Istanbul Plak Ltd.
** Producer: Tarkan & Ozan Çolakoğlu
Ozan Çolakoğlu (, born 1 April 1972) is a Turkish composer, songwriter and music producer; famous for his work with various Turkish pop singers and his multiple film scores. He co-founded the production company ''Sarı Ev'' (Yellow House), but ...
** Mix: Murat Matthew Erdem
** Mastering: Tim Young, Metropolist Studios London
** Recorded at: Sari Ev (Kayit ve Mix), Imaj, ASM (Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim Mix)
** Executive Producer: Egemen Öncel
** Photos: Hasan Hüseyin
** Hair Design: Mete Türkmen
** Make-up Artist: Neriman Eröz
** Costume Coordinator: Gülümser Gürtunca
Guest musicians
* Instruments:
** Classical Guitar
The classical guitar (also known as the nylon-string guitar or Spanish guitar) is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string instrument with strings made of gut or nylon, it is a precursor o ...
- Erdem Sökmen, Ayhan Gunyil
** Electric, Bass (Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
) - Nurkan Renda
** Oud
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* String instruments
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- Ilyas Tetik
** Strings - Gündem Yayli Grubu (String Band)
** String Arrangements (Track 2) - Hamit Undas
* For Track 5:
** Background vocals, Baglama (Lead, Bass) - Arif Sağ
** Baglama (Arpeggio), Selpe - Erdal Erzincan
** Balaban - Ertan Tekin
** Percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...
- Mehmet Akatay, Cengiz Ercumer, Arif Sağ
Music videos
* Dudu
* Gülümse Kaderine
* Sorma Kalbim
* Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım (Ozinga Mix) (The music video was filmed to a remixed version that does not appear on the album.)
Extra information
Tarkan's 2003 musical offering was his first album to be released under his own label HITT Music and the first Tarkan album to be packaged in a Digipak
Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage.
Jewel case
A ...
. Technically it could be classed as an EP release with only five edits and five remixes, but it is generally viewed as an album as its track length is over 35 minutes. ''Dudu'' was the first hybrid album of its kind in Turkey to sell over 1,000,000 copies. Tarkan once again collaborated with singer-songwriter Nazan Öncel
Nazan Öncel (; born 6 February 1956) is a Turkish singer-songwriter. She also does the arrangements for most of them and has written songs for such singers as Tarkan (singer), Tarkan and İbrahim Tatlıses.
Biography and career
In 1978, her son ...
for this album after a successful collaboration on his Karma
Karma (; sa, कर्म}, ; pi, kamma, italic=yes) in Sanskrit means an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences. In Indian religions, the term more specifically refers to a principle of cause and effect, often descriptivel ...
album. - ''courtesy of Ali Yildirim''
"Uzun İnce Bir Yoldayım (remix)" - '5:47'
Notes
External links
Dudu Official Album Website
in Turkish and English
Album and Song Lyrics Information
in English
Ozgur Buldum
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Tarkan (singer) albums
2003 albums
Albums produced by Ozan Çolakoğlu