Ayca Mirac: A WINDOW TO THE BOSPORUS

The singer, who has performed numerous concerts in Turkey in addition to her career in Europe, sings the lines “This world is like a window: everyone looks out and passes by” in the well-known folk song “Bu Dünya Bir Pencere.” This title idea runs like a thread through the album.

The window to the Bosphorus also refers to her family's second home, from which she looks directly out onto the strait and bridges connecting Europe and Asia. This place of longing, full of precious memories, is a never-ending source of musical inspiration. Her warm timbre combined with masterfully harmonized acoustic instrumentals creates a multi-layered soundscape in which East and West, tradition and modernity meet harmoniously in the present.

A Window to the Bosporus is a tribute to the magical Bosporus metropolis and its Lasian heritage, an invitation to pause, listen, and enjoy the musically captured view of the beauty of a cultural treasure that is brought to life and made timeless through respectful reinterpretation and improvisation.