With music from Turkey: Taksim Trio & from South-Korea: The Sinawi Ensemble.
1- Taksim Trio.
This Turkish trio connects traditional Turkish music with jazz, rock and classical music. The perfectly attuned trio consists of Hüsnü Senlendirici (clarinet), Ismail Tunçbilek (electro baglama) and Aytaç Dogan (kanun). The trio alternates catchy gypsy melodies with driving electronic jazz, combined with Arabic keys. From calm and familiar sounds to improvisations where the fire flares up: in their music you can hear the many cultures that come together in cities like Istanbul. CD. Taksim Trio / Taksim Trio. LABEL: Doublemoon (Turkije) 2007, CODE: DM 0040. VIDEO
2- The Sinawi Ensemble.
This is the first album entirely devoted to the Sinawi, a traditional music on the edge of jazz. The Sinawi is music improvised by a small instrumental ensemble that accompanies the dances and singing of shamans during rituals. Since many shamanic rituals are no longer practiced, the Sinawi has been transformed into concert music and the musical content has also changed. Today, the Sinawi is improvised on several instruments within a rhythmic and modal framework that is predetermined but that leaves a lot of freedom to the musicians. Melodies composed in a single melodic mode merge in harmony, creating a real polyphony interspersed with instrumental solos. CD. The art of sinawi : A shamanistic legacy – The Sinawi Ensemble. LABEL: Inedit (2016), code: W 260153. VIDEO
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