In the summer of 2002, you could not have walked down Istanbul's Istiklal Caddesi without hearing Sezen Aksu’s new album Deli Veren blaring over speakers of record stores.  Even little old ladies selling bootlegged cassettes in the laneways got into the act.  Aksu has been a stellar pop diva in Turkey and Europe for many years, but she broke new ground that summer experimenting with her Turkish musical roots—that wonderful blend of Persian, Arabic, Central Asian, Kurdish and Jewish musical traditions. Vine mi Cicek was inspirational when we were cutting the episode's final end-of-day sequence.