german born turkish director faith akin capture in his film the endless variety of the different style in music and song in istanbul and a city that be a bridge between east and west and a city that be uniquely locate on both side of the bosporus and in europe and in asia . kurdish dirge represent by aynur and who perform her own brand of kurdish gospel music and passionate and melodic . we be introduce to romany instrumentals and to orhan gencebay and who have be call the elvis of arabesque music sound of music be hear everywhere in the city a faith akin take u into underground club and to the street performer and and to record session . german bassist alexander hacke who come to istanbul to play and to learn about turkish music quote confucius and to understand the place and you have to listen to the music it play . akin fine documentary do just that give u 90 minute of music that help to cross the bridge . for me and watch the movie be especially interesting because i recently visit istanbul a a part of my vacation and spend four day there . the city fascinate me by it image and color and crowd and vibrancy and visual beauty . now and i can add the sound of music to the ever change portrait of istanbul .