Meral Polat nominated for the 3voor12 Award - Best album of the year!
Every year, the 3voor12 editorial team announces the nominees for the award: Best Dutch album of the year.
This year, Meral Polat is among the nominees with her album Meydan.
Below is the 3voor12 explanation for the nomination:
"What a record Meral Polat, a Dutch singer of Alevi Kurdish descent, has made. Desert blues, Anatolian rock, Ethiopian jazz, Kurdish music, afrobeat, and also sizzling, dark psychedelia: the kind of music you want to hear live, and she and producer Chris Doyle manage to capture that feeling perfectly on this album. The overarching theme: Jin, Jiyan, Azadî, or woman, life, freedom, the battle cry that originated in the Kurdish women's movement and became a slogan after the death of Mahsa Amini. And that is exactly how powerful this album sounds: she makes herself big, strong, and refuses to be oppressed."
You can see Meral at the Burgerweeshuis on Friday, 10 April.
