An authoritative voice in Turkish music, with incantatory tenor pipes, Zülfü Livaneli is also a novelist, poet, filmmaker and politician. Accompanied by the timeless lutes, flutes and frame drums intrinsic to Turkish folk music, Livaneli writes and sings tunefully nostalgic odes evoking simpler days in Turkey's countryside and seaside towns. And though he composed much of his 1973 debut while imprisoned during a military coup d'état, more recent songs frequently contain uplifting messages of multiculturalism and tolerance.