Not sure where this guy is from, but I am pretty sure he's Turkish.
He plays the ney, a simple middle-eastern flute. The whole record, Dem, is unaccompanied ney, and from the very first note, you can hear this guy is a MASTER. The sound is eerily close to that of a human voice, and as far as I'm concerned, even more expressive. The record is stark; very wide open, so roomy and spacey, it sounds like he's playing in a gigantic mosque in the middle of a vast desert that's thousands of miles from civilization. It's maybe the loneliest and most introspective sound I've ever heard.
More Turkish music posts to come as I continue to sift through....
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Will you start your own turkish blog already? Would love to check some out.
Let me know your email and I will send some stuff via Yousendit.com....
Alright and thanks! DC hook him up with my email. By the way what is the story with yousendit.com? Is this better than a DVD from the mailman?
this sounds like good samples for the monastics, no?
yeah man...i will send you the link to the yousendit download, too.
i just don't know what keys the songs are in. a lot of them may not work because they use Turkish scales that don't really fit over our scales because of microtones and whatnot.
Fucking microtones!
I eat microtones for breakfast. Hook me up too.
sampled a few tracks so far, it's just as you described, otherworldly and so desolate it almost sounds like we aren't supposed to be hearing it.
Interesting volume/spatial dynamics too, I don't know if its the quality of the instrument but at one moment it sounds like he's an inch away from the mic and the next it sounds like he's across the room. Is anybody else hearing that?
i think it's more to do with the dynamics of the ney. i've seen a few videos of him playing, and he's pretty much in the same spot the whole time. the ney is a very difficult instrument to play, and some of its registers can only be heard when you play very softly.
Impressive, looking forward to future posts.
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