GAZEL - Classical Sufi Music Of The Ottoman Empire

Turkish ney player Kudsi Erguner has made a career out of resurrecting Turkish traditional music, and here he uses his five-piece ensemble -- which also features his brother Suleyman Erguner on ney, Hasan Esen on kemence, Mehmet Emin Bitmez on ud, and Husnu Anil on kanun -- to back up three noted singers, Yusuf Bilgin, Fevzi Misir, and Aziz Bahriyeli, on musical settings for a series of poems by Ottoman figures dating back to the 16th century and up to the 20th. On each track, only one of the singers performs, and the musical treatments are semi-improvised in the form called "Taksim," which Erguner explains in the liner notes as only being allowed once a musician has mastered the required traditional musical forms, qualifying him to create variations consistent with existing styles. The singers bring considerable feeling to their interpretations, and the ensemble backs them effectively. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

TRACK LISTINGS

(01) [Yusuf Bilgin] Esin var asiyanin var (Poems of Mehmet Akif)
(02) [Fevzi Misir] Efendimsin (Poems of Seyh Galib)
(03) [Aziz Bahriyeli] Halk icin muteber (Poems of Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Han)
(04) [Yusuf Bilgin] Ey gonul yari iste (Poems of Fuzuli)
(05) [Fevzi Misir] Ey bulbul-i seyda (Poems of Niyazi'i Misri)
(06) [Aziz Bahriyeli] Ruzi seb (Poems of Sultan Selim III)
(07) [Yusuf Bilgin] Ol Lezzeti vehhale (Poems of Nabi)
(08) [Aziz Bahriyeli] Sabreyle gonul (Poems of Hoca Dehhani)
(09) [Yusuf Bilgin] Zahmi sinemden (Poems of Baki)

Credits
Yusuf Bilgin (Vocals), Kurt Renker (Producer), Yusuf Bilgin (Performer), Kurt Renker (Engineer), Walter Quintus (Producer), Howard Mandel (Editing), Kurt Renker (Kanun), Walter Quintus (Engineer), Fevzi Misir (Vocals), Mehmet Emin Bitmez (Ud), Husnu Anil (Kanun), Aziz Bahriyeli (Performer), Walter Quintus (Kanun), Fevzi Misir (Performer), Hasan Esen (Kemence), Ulf VonKanitz (Design), Kudsi Erguner (Ney), Aziz Bahriyeli (Vocals), Suleyman Erguner (Ney), Ulf VonKanitz (Art Direction)

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