TRAD & FOLK MUSIC ON 33RPM & TAPES
MUḤAMMAD (HAMŪD) AL-ḤĀRITHĪ
AŠRAF ꜤALAYYA KA-L-QAMAR/SHE APPEARED TO ME LIKE THE MOON
Ṣawt al-Jazīra; no date, GAZ. 12
Another tape from Sana'a with a well-known singer and ud player who died in 2007. There are six songs listed on the cover but I got only three tracks after digitalization. So if you can follow which songs are put together that might help. Here the sahn is the main backing percussion.
MUSIQUE TRADITIONNELLE TURQUE
PIECES INSTRUMENTALES
TURKISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC
INSTRUMENTAL PIECES
Disques Ocora, ORTF, 1971, OCR 56
The general editor for this publication was Charles Duvelle (1937-2017) who created Ocora in 1960. He was a musicologist fascinated by Africa where he recorded thousands of hours of music in the field from 1961. He launched his own label in 1988 under the name of ''Prophet'' dedicated to African music.
Bernard Mauguin wrote the notes for this album (French and English) which features great names of the Turkish tradition such as Ulvi Eguner or Cinuçen Tanrıkorur. Side A has four tracks about the makam segah as it is the rule in concert to explore one single makam by different musicians and give the listener as many interpretations as there are soloists. Unfortunately we don't know who plays the ney on track A1. Three neyzenler were present : U. Erguner, Akagündüz Kutbay and Doğan Ergin.
Side B has three tracks where all the musicians perform together.
I'd like to mention a short story about A. Kutbay (a member of the Mevlevi order) I heard from Jean-Claude Chabrier I think (see the post about M. Sabsabi) ; Kutbay was a member of the classical Turkish orchestra attached to the national radio in Istanbul. As the orchestra was about to play one day, the musicians playing string instruments asked Kutbay to give them a note from his ney in order to tune up. He did so and died immediately after. What a better death could a musician dream of ? It was in 1979 and he was 45.
UTRICULUS CANTI E MUSICHE PER ZAMPOGNA E CIARAMELLA SONGS AND MUSICS FOR BAGPIPE AND SHAWM Associazione Culturale ''Circolo della ...
