TÜRK SAN'AT MÜZİGİNDEN SEÇMELER
TURKISH HIT PARADE
Request Records, no date, RLP 10075
Don't trust the picture of the cover; this album doesn't deal with some folk country music but with urban kind of music. Some of the musicians are well known like the Erköse Brothers, tanbur player Necdet Yaşar or Ulvi Erguner on ney. It is mostly Ottoman music played by soloists or a band lead by Cevdet Cagla. The Erköse Brs plays popular dance tunes on track A1 which is divided in two tracks (I think the sirto is in ''a'' while the çiftetelli is on ''b''). The quality of the sound is not very good and the album is not in very good shape either.
Request Records was an American label with a large catalogue. Their main public was perhaps not connoisseur hence the ''Turkish hit parade'' mention while the Turkish title could translate as ''selections of Turkish musical art'' which it is really.
Erdem Erdogru amazing kemenche playing in track B3!!! and
ReplyDeleteRustu Eric on oud was very good!! Thanks Herve!!
Good ! I like also the parts with the band; they play instrumental pieces I've never heard before. I'll try to get more stuff on the oud ...
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