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Release Date: 24-10-2005
Label: Jaro Medien
Catalog Number: JARO4271-2
Barcode: 4006180427121
Musical Style: World
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neva Cheng-I Harbi Part II; Sarband & Jacopo da Bologna [01:49] | 6 | Suzinak - Semai; Okay Temiz [04:17] |
| 2 | Kobra; Okay Temiz & Zurna Projec [214:00] | 7 | Psalm No. 6; Sarband & W Bobowsky [05:27] |
| 3 | Una Marika De Ruda / Wedding Song; Sarband [07:52] | 8 | Dervish Service Reggae; Okay Temiz [08:56] |
| 4 | Hicaz Ilahi; Sarband & Ali Ufki [06:09] | 9 | Rondo Alla Turca; Sarband & W.A. Mozart [02:19] |
| 5 | Nikris Pesrev; Sarband [05:34] | 10 | Ya Rabbi; Sarband [07:16] |
Description:
The first modern-day musicians to show an interest in Turkish music and its astonishing wealth of different rhythms were American and African jazzers living in Europe during the 1960s. Their orientation by no means represented the earliest musical contact between West and East, of course, but was a resurgence of something far older. Not even the compositions that Mozart contributed to the history of music (a Turkish 'retranslation' of his 'Rondo alla Turca' can be found on this CD) – based as they were on the rhythms of Ottoman military music or 'Janissary music' – were the earliest of their kind. The group Sarband, one of the most fascinating and outstanding ensembles in the search for early contacts between East and West, quite impressively proved years ago that such connections between Turkey and Europe date all the way back to the sixteenth century. The spectrum of this CD ranges from the calm, flowing, almost silent but still highly artistically ornamented music of the old Ottoman Empire to the powerful, aggressive rhythms of multi-talented percussionist Okay Temiz, who succeeds brilliantly in merging ethno-beat, the jazz statement and Turkish traditions.
