Gülümse

Gülümse
Gülümse
Studio album by Sezen Aksu
Released	16 July 1991
Recorded	January–June 1991
Studio	FT Studio; Gelişim Studio; (Istanbul, Turkey)
Genre	Pop; dance; disco;
Length	45:33
Label	Coşkun; Sahibinin Sesi;
Producer	Kudret Çoşkun, Onno Tunç
Sezen Aksu chronology

Gülümse is Sezen Aksu's Turkish release and her most commercially successful album in Turkey. The album sold more than 2 million and is one of the best-selling Turkish album.^[1]^[2] Sezen Aksu on this album again worked with Onno Tunç and Aysel Gürel.

Track listing edit

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Composer(s)	Length
1.	"Hadi Bakalım"	Aysel Gürel	Onno Tunç	4:56
2.	"Tutsak"	Ece Aksoy Ersin Salman Onat Kutlar Sezen Aksu Onno Tunç	Onno Tunç	6:28
3.	"Ne Kavgam Bitti Ne Sevdam"	Aysel Gürel	Onno Tunç	3:28
4.	"Gülümse"	Kemal Burkay	Arto Tunçboyacıyan	5:03
5.	"Güllerim Soldu"	Sezen Aksu	Sezen Aksu	4:31
6.	"Vazgeçtim"	Sezen Aksu	Ara Dinkjian	5:09
7.	"Her Şeyi Yak"	Sezen Aksu	Thanos Mikroutsikos	5:14
8.	"Namus"	Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan	Arto Tunçboyacıyan	3:56
9.	"Seni Kimler Aldı?"	Sezen Aksu	Sezen Aksu	3:28
10.	"Değer mi?"	Aysel Gürel	Onno Tunç	3:25
Total length:				45:33

Personnel edit

Kudret Coşkun: Executive-producer
Onno Tunç: Producer, all instruments and arrangements, except for the following (1,2,3,4,5,6,8,10)
Aykut Gürel - Sound engineer
Duyal Karagözoğlu - Sound engineer
Curtis Schwartz - Mixing
Sertab Erener - Vocal (1,7)
Levent Yüksel - Vocal (1,7)
Seden Gurel - Vocal (1,7)
Arto Tunçboyacıyan - Supervisor, percussion instruments (2,3,4,5,8) Vocal (2,3,4,8)
Ahmet Kadri Rizeli - kemenche (4)
Tamer Pınarbaşı - Kanun (4)
Ara Dinkjian - Ud (6)
Celal Bağlan: darbuka (7)
Seyfi Hayta: Def (7)
Serdar Erbaşı: Hollo, Bendir (7)
Reyhan Dinletir: Bongo (7)
İlyas Tetik: Violin (7)
Ergin Kızılay: Ud (7)
Atilla Özdemiroğlu - Instruments and arrangements (7)
Sevingül Bahadır: Vocal (7)
Ercan Irmak: Ney, Kavala (9)
Özkan Uğur - Bass Guitar (9)
Fuat Güner - Acoustic Guitars, Musical Instruments and regulations (9)
Orhan Topçuoğlu - Percussion instruments (10)

Charts edit

All-time charts edit

Chart	Position
Hürriyet Turkey's Best 100 Albums^[3]	5

References edit

^ "10 yılın tiraj rekortmenleri". Milliyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Milliyet. 12 April 2000.
^ "Sezen: Winging her way to stardom". Hürriyet Daily News. 14 August 1996.
^ Bilgici, Yenal (22 April 2017). "Türkiye'nin en iyi 100 albümü". Hürriyet. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2020.

External links edit

Sezen Aksu official website
Gülümse at Discogs

[1] "10 yılın tiraj rekortmenleri". Milliyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Milliyet. 12 April 2000.

[2] "Sezen: Winging her way to stardom". Hürriyet Daily News. 14 August 1996.

[hurriyet100-3] Bilgici, Yenal (22 April 2017). "Türkiye'nin en iyi 100 albümü". Hürriyet. Archived from the original on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2020.

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