TÜRK SAN'AT ...

 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.

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BOBBY CASEY

 

BOBBY CASEY / TAKING FLIGHT

Mulligan, 1979, LUN 018 

Fiddler Bobby Casey (1937-2011) was considered as a legend in his life time. He learned his music with his father Scully who taught Junior Crehan as well. This LP is an excellent way of discovering Bobby's huge talent with lots of ornamentations and variations and requires an attentive listening. No backing at all. B. Casey lived most of his life in England but he was a big name in Ireland where he used to go back from time to time as in 1977 when he was recorded. He composed a few tunes, Porthole of the Kelp being the most famous and played probably.
Mulligan was a very good Irish label founded by Donal Lunny in 1976. The catalogue is now owned by an US label.
If you want to listen to other LPs like this one go visit the site https://ceolalainn.blogspot.com where you can get a good deal of information about the musicians and Irish music.
I said that I wouldn't post LPs that are already on other blogs but I think that the more it is shared the better when we come across such brillant albums.

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TRIO KRAS

 

TRIO KRAS/LIVE FOLK MUSIC

LJUDSKI PLESI IZ SEVERNE ISTRE
POPULAR MUSIC FROM NORTHERN ISTRIA

Druga Godba, 1989, DG 006

Another rare tape from the folk revival in Istria (see the post on the 15th of July) with the Trio Kras. Ottavio Štokovac Rapatočki plays the fiddle, Dario Marušić plays the acompanying fiddle and Umberto Pucer Berto Macul plays the bass. Istria is now divided between Slovenia and Croatia. The area considered here is in Slovenia around the city of Grožnjan/Grisignana. Istria had been nevertheless  under strong Venetian influence politically and culturally for centuries. Like all border zones the population is quite mixed as the names of the musicians here show. The titles of the tunes are mixed as well. The fiddle is the main instrument in duet with at least one bass like in Val Resia. Dario Marušić is a well known revivalist both in Italy and in Istria. This tape is made of live and studio recordings. The tracks B7 and B8 are one track (16).
Presentation text in Slovenian, Italian and English. 

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