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Ladies on Records

What is Ladies on Records?

Ladies on Records is a curated multifaceted endeavour created to represent women's contribution to global and local music of the past decades. Ladies on Records tells the stories of women by the music they created. 

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Ladies on Records' mission is to reshape and improve understanding and knowledge of female music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s from all over the world and make it re-discovered and appreciated again by the local and global audience. It sheds new light on female creation in music and exposes unspoken, forgotten, or neglected cultural, political, and aesthetic patterns. Ladies on Records' main goal is to tell the stories of female artists from the past in a new, contemporary way.

 

How does it work?

Ladies on Records is a curatorial venture. Its primary focus is female music caught on dusty records and tapes, in the hidden archives and back catalogs of the music labels from around the world. Therefor Ladies on Records specialises in the creation of music compilations released both in physical and digital but also in creating mixes, playing DJ sessions and writing stories about music and female singers.

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Who is Ladies on Records?

Kornelia Binicewicz - Polish origin record collector. DJ and anthropologist of culture currently living in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2015, she moved to Istanbul to explore female music from Turkey and the Middle East. Daily, she lives on the island near Istanbul travels all around the world in search of mesmerising music and meaningful stories to tell. 

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Let’s meet 

15.03 Babylon Istanbul with GUTS

22.03 Arkaoda Istanbul with Soul Service

30.03 Noh Radio with Ahu & Ana Flavia

7.04 Radio Meuh Circus festival La Clusaz

9.04 La Bobine Grenoble

10.04 La Maison des Artistes Chamonix

13.04 AB Brussels 

25.04 Tavern Istanbul

1..06 Sam Sam Festival Paris

12.06 Rio Rocco Festival Toulouse

13.06 Sete 

14.06 Ramatuelle

21.06 La Bonne Aventure Festival

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Shows
Mixes

Mixtapes, Sets & Soundlectures

My videos ladies on records

My videos ladies on records
Everybody Loves Samba-dy with Kornelia

Everybody Loves Samba-dy with Kornelia

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KORNELIA | NOH - Mar 30 / 2024

KORNELIA | NOH - Mar 30 / 2024

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Kornelia Binicewicz Dj set @ la Maison de la Radio Meuh

Kornelia Binicewicz Dj set @ la Maison de la Radio Meuh

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Ladies On Records'un kültürler arası yolculuğu: A Drop Of Luck | calling

Ladies On Records'un kültürler arası yolculuğu: A Drop Of Luck | calling

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Curated albums

Compilations

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Turkish Ladies. Female Singers from Turkey 1974 - 1988

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Sony Music Turkey/ Epic Istanbul

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Released worldwide (Vinyl, CD and digital)

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May 2018

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Female singers embody everything that is the most spectacular and precious in music. Their style reflects what is glamorous, vivid, important. However, the female music does not only reflect what is visible and accepted. It also mirrors all neglected, undervalued dreams and expectations. Female singers are not only artists. They are messengers.

 

"Turkish Ladies" compilation is curated by Kornelia Binicewicz aka Ladies on Records and made of deep and profound listening of the message of Turkish women singers. Created from vast music archives of old Turkish labels under the umbrella of Sony Music Turkey, the compilation catches the diversity of Turkish women music scene – from seductive and charismatic divas of gazinos and pavyons to straightforward and sharp folk singers of tavernas. 

 

After great interest and revivalism of Turkish music from late 60s, 70s and 80s, it is high time to rediscover and appreciate the women story of this exciting period in music from Turkey. Sweet melodies and heartbreaking dramas are kept in edgy arrangements and compositions with eccentric synthesizers, mesmerizing arabesque string orchestras, waka waka funky guitars and narcotizing rhythm sections of darbukas and drum sets. Get surprised with variety of influences and fusions – from classical Türk Sanat Müziği, Argentinian tango, Spanish flamenco, Egyptian classical orchestras, traditional folk songs to worldwide popular disco, psychedelia, funk in local unique setups from late 70s and 80s.

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Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu

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Uzelli Kaset

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Released worldwide (Vinyl, CD and digital)

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March 2017

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Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu is a compilation of psychedelic sounds from Turkey, offering a new perspective, fresh names and undiscovered genres. Pressed for the first time on vinyl, released on CD and digital, all the tracks were discovered in Uzelli's archives. Selected from thousands of tracks, re-mastered from master tapes and high quality recording tapes. Radical and edgy electrified bağlamas, moog and synthesizers, combined with sweet melodies and heart braking lyrics that will open your ears to the yet-undiscovered Anatolian soundscape.

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9Nov1989: A Testament to Collective Memory and Shared Humanity

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9Nov1989 is a living testament to the power of collective memory and shared human experience. It is a project where history is not locked away in textbooks or frozen in monuments, but brought to life through stories, memories, and music. At its heart, 9Nov1989 invites people from around the world to share personal reflections on their lives around the pivotal years of 1989 and 1990—what the fall of the Berlin Wall meant to them, and how it shaped their own small, personal worlds.

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The project embraces music as a powerful narrative tool—a soundtrack of memory. The songs we listened to at the time were more than just background noise; they were part of how we made sense of the world, how we expressed hope, fear, change, and belonging. They are not just melodies, but markers of personal and collective history.

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Contrary to the neat timelines found in history books, real memory is rarely linear or precise. It is emotional, fragmented, unreliable, and deeply personal. The “big history” of revolutions and political change often exists in our minds as a backdrop to intimate moments: falling in love, saying goodbye to a relative, starting a new job, going on a holiday, or playing with friends. To truly capture the spirit of 1989, we must look beyond the headlines and into the everyday lives that unfolded before, during, and after that moment in time.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall—and the broader collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe—was not just a political event. It was a cultural and emotional shift, a moment when millions were thrust into a new reality. Political freedom came hand in hand with uncertainty, hope was often tangled with fear, and national change played out in deeply personal ways.

9Nov1989 seeks to reflect this complexity. By focusing not only on the historic event itself but also on the years surrounding it, the project paints a fuller picture of an era marked by both transformation and continuity. It connects personal stories with global events, reminding us that history is made not only in parliaments and protests, but also in kitchens, classrooms, concert halls, and crowded city squares.

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By keeping the memory of November 9, 1989 alive, the project challenges us to confront the walls that still divide us today—whether physical, political, social, or psychological. It invites us to reflect on themes of freedom, resistance, division, and reconciliation in ways that resonate with our own lives and times.

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In doing so, 9Nov1989 reminds us that history is not just something we inherit—it’s something we carry, something we shape, and something we share.

Vita - Lucio Dalla and Gianni Morandi

I was 12, with just a few pirated cassettes and the radio as my only window to music. “Vita” by Lucio Dalla and Gianni Morandi (on my father’s fake “Dallamorandi” tape), and “Tell Me Now” by Pino Daniele (a copied cassette from a friend’s Schizzechea album). On the radio, it was RAF “Cosa resterà di questi anni ’80” and the anthem of that summer turning into a new decade: “Notti Magiche” by Edoardo Bennato and Gianna Nannini — celebrating with the Germans their World Cup victory on the Italian beaches, stolen from Maradona’s Argentina.

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Heroes - David Bovie

I was 14 and the sound of the Europe and fall of the wall for a Brazilian girl living so far away was Neneh Cherry - "Buffalo Stance", 
NENA - "99 Luftballons" the German version of course! and  The Cure - "Close to me" "Heroes" of Bowie of course!

Octopus‘s Garden - The Beatles 

When the wall fell in November 1989 I was on vacation with my family in the south of France and this was my favorite song that fall.

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Millionär - Prinzen

The band was a big part of my childhood. We listened to them a lot at home, and my memory of this song is vivid: It’s 1991, and we are taking our first trip to the West. My parents, aunts, uncles, and all the cousins drove to Brittany, France, for summer vacation — to see the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. This album was blasting in our cars, and we kids, as well as our parents, sang along loudly. The title means: I want to be a millionaire.

Love Shack - The B-52's 

So many Memories. Here are some tracks that come to my mind.

The B-52's : Love Shack
Soul II Soul : Back to life (However do you want me)
Prince The Future

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Der Erdbeermund - Culture Beat Featuring Jo Van Nelson

That is the sound of the time for me.

 Arahja - KULT

Fast, aggressive music and lyrics full of strong words - that is the soundtrack of the time.
Kult " Arahja " and "45 - 48" 

Dezerter " Spytaj policjanta "

Siekiera " Misiowie Puszyści "
Maanam " Nocny Patrol "

Brygada Kryzys " Centrala "
Oddział Zamknięty " Ten wasz świat "


80s/90s music from Poland is brilliant!

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Tajči - Hajde Da Ludujemo
 

I was four years old when Tajči represented Yugoslavia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 in Zagreb with this song. I lived in Switzerland in a small village with a population of nearly 2,400. My family, who had migrated from Ex-Yugoslavia, was very conservative, filled with tragic stories and many worries. For me, Tajči represented the complete opposite: freedom and joy.

Wind of change - Scorpions

For this time during the „reunion“ I remember first of all „Wind of Change“ from Scorpions. I also remember lots of important DDR Punk Bands during this time and it’s rising right-wing extremism those who reflected that time in their songs:
#Herbst in Peking: Bakschischrepublik & Geisterbahn #Feeling B: Artig & Alles ist so schön bunt hier #Die Skeptiker: Dada in Berlin & Deutschland halt’s Maul #Schleim-Keim: In der Kneipe zur trockenen Kehle. Last but not least: Wolf Biermann. 

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Fight da faida - Frankie hi-nrg mc

This song is part of my youth (1990), especially in the squats of Bologna (though not only there), where underground culture flourished. The artists' commitment to political issues, which characterized this crucial period in European history - marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall - was predominant in all forms of expression, especially music.

Dönence - Barış Manço

Europe had its Wind of Change by Scorpions, we had Dönence Song by Barış Manço. The lyrics brought a metaphoric description of the transformation of the world order. "Somewhere far away the sun is rising" - Uzaklarda bir yerlerde güneşler doğuyor!

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Berlin - Dagmara

Here a clip of a song with the title BERLIN, from 1989 (just before the Wall) It is the first one that came in my mind... Realized in France few months before November. My husband was working as music publisher was producing it. Dagmar was sleeping on a sofa at home)

 

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/i07241530/dagmar-berlin

 

My father, Bernard Heidsieck, a poet, was invited for a reading in East-Berlin in the beginning of November 89. Invited me to come. I was journalist and I traveled during the eighties mostly in the eastern part of Europe. Arriving in Berlin for the fall of the Wall has been the gift for a lifetime. I lived the event during a week. Still have on a wall a banner with written : FORWÄRTS GENOSSEN, DIE AVANT_GARDE IST HINTER EUCH HER

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