Ilhan Erşahin - HARIKALAR DIYARI [Turquía]

Ilhan Erşahin (born 1965) is a Turkish saxophonist, record producer and composer living in New York.

Erşahin was born in Sweden and grew up in Turkey. He owns the New York jazz club Nublu and his own record label under the same name.

Erşahin's "Wonderland", recorded in İstanbul and New York, expresses his ties with Istanbul and his interest in Turkish music. The former Anatolian-jazz collective Laço Tayfa's clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici, percussionist Mehmet Akatay, and quanun-player Nuri Lekesizgöz along with the unconventional voices of new-generation Istanbul vocalists like Nil Karaibrahimgil, Bora, and Dilara (at 14 years of age) are featured on the album as well as Erşahin's long-time accomplices, Matt Pennman on bass, Jochen Reuckert on drums, and Danish guitarist/computerized FX-loops-sampler Thor Madsen. Together they combine jazz with flowing, melodic oriental/digital futuristic sound. Wonderland traveled through Turkey and Europe for Berlin Jazz Festival, Cologne Stadtgarten, and Kopenhagen Bimhuis.

Erşahin's primary project is an unmarked live music venue in downtown New York City named Nublu. Part jazz, part world, part rare groove. Initially Nublu was a local draw, Erşahin's own collective Wax Poetic (born out of stumbling jams of urban electronica, acid-jazz, dub funk, and Middle Eastern melodies with performers including Norah Jones, N'Dea Davenport, U-Roy, Saul Williams) grew into a worldwide sensation.

Ersahin formerly directed the jam sessions for three consecutive years at the International Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul and has traded riffs with Sam Rivers, James Carter, Craig Harris and John Zorn. Fuente

HARIKALAR DIYARI

Perhaps a transitional disc bridging the not inconsiderable gap between Ilhan Erşahin's relatively traditional jazz outings (Home and Our Song) and the lush flowering of his eclectic outrageousness (Nublu Orchestra and Our Theory), this disc still has its considerable pleasures, even if it doesn't fully participate in the glories of the latter offerings.

For one thing, this marks the first recorded encounter (I believe) between Erşahin and Thor Madsen, a cornerstone of such remarkable projects as Our Theory. For that reason alone, it is worth hearing. Related, one supposes, to endeavors such as Thievery Corporation, Zero 7, Karsh Kale, and similar projects, this music seems to me to have both a greater jazz and traditional music foundation than these projects, and, hence, trump them both from a musical-sophistication and authenticity standpoint.

Altogether remarkable music, certainly worth checking out by anyone interested in Erşahin's later developments or those into world-jazz of uncommon and high accomplishment.

Erşahin's primary project is an unmarked live music venue in downtown New York City named Nublu. Part jazz, part world, part rare groove. Initially Nublu was a local draw, Erşahin's own collective Wax Poetic (born out of stumbling jams of urban electronica, acid-jazz, dub funk, and Middle Eastern melodies with performers including Norah Jones, N'Dea Davenport, U-Roy, Saul Williams) grew into a worldwide sensation.

Erşahin formerly directed the jam sessions for three consecutive years at the International Akbank Jazz Festival in Istanbul and has traded riffs with Sam Rivers, James Carter, Craig Harris and John Zorn. Fuente

Pistas:

01 - Ask
02 - Ennio
03 - Fly
04 - Girl
05 - Gör
06 - Hush
07 - Oriental wind
08 - Sensiz Yasamam








HARIKALAR DIYARI

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