My Home My Heart My Soul
"My Home My Heart My Soul" (Iradi: "Üyüm, Jürögüm, Janım") is a song by the Iradi duo tüntolk from their album White Stallion in Fog (2017). It is often called the strangest song in their catalogue, and it is the song most associated with the 2023 Student Protests in Talas.[1][2]
Music and lyrics
The song is built on a deep, continuous hum, against which Mira Temirova screams the lyrics with brutal, distorted force. Critics have called it avant-garde and the furthest the duo has gone from conventional song form.[1] The text is short and plain, close to the language of a patriotic song: "Oh Irad, my home, my heart, my soul", repeated after each line, with verses about the land "where the wind whispers secrets, which only brave hearts know" and "where the ancient legends live on even now", ending "in the land of Irad, where I want to stay". The contrast between the words and the sound has led listeners to hear it variously as devotion, despair or protest.[2]
In the 2023 protests
During the student protests in Talas in October 2023, marchers chanted the song's refrain, "Ooo İrad menin üyüm, jürögüm, janım". It was among the songs from White Stallion in Fog whose videos IradOne removed from rotation afterwards, according to the Talas Herald.[3] Commentators noted that the broadcaster had stopped showing a song whose words could hardly be objected to. The duo said only that their songs "belong to whoever sings them".[3]
Lyrics
| Iradi | English |
|---|---|
| Ooo İrad menin üyüm, jürögüm, janım | Oh Irad, my home, my heart, my soul |
| Şamal sırlardı şıbırap turgan jerde, anı er jüröktör gana bilet | Where the wind whispers secrets, which only brave hearts know |
| Ooo İrad menin üyüm, jürögüm, janım | Oh Irad, my home, my heart, my soul |
| Bayırkı ulamıştar azır da jaşap jatkan jerde | Where the ancient legends live on even now |
| Ooo İrad menin üyüm, jürögüm, janım | Oh Irad, my home, my heart, my soul |
| Men kalgım kelgen İrad jerinde | In the land of Irad, where I want to stay |
| Ooo İrad menin üyüm, jürögüm, janım | Oh Irad, my home, my heart, my soul |
References
- ^ Central Asian Cultural Studies Review (2022). 'Nocturnal Steppe: Electronic Subcultures in the ISEZ.' Vol. 14, pp. 88–104.
- ^ Journal of Central Asian Popular Music (2023). 'Noise, Chant and the Iradi Night: Listening to "Dream of Living".' Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 55–73.
- ^ Talas Herald (16 November 2023). 'IradOne drops tüntolk videos after protests.' Talas.