ATD playlist

[pynchonoid]

Already mentioned Huun-Huur-Tu's 60 Horses in my Herd,
also great listening for the Central Asian passages:

Classical Music of Turkey
Halil Karaduman (Kanun) & Necati Celik (oud)

recorded at Little Buddha Studio, San Rafael, CA in
2000
CD published by Near Eastern Music West Inc.
1201 Brickyard Wayu #406
Point Richmond, CA 94801, email NEMCeditor at aol.com

I saw these guys in a small private club called
Strings in Emeryville, and they are amazing musicians,
they just don't want to stop playing, the music gushes
out of them.  Kanun is a kind of lap harp played with
finger picks and mallets like a marimba or xylophone,
oud is like guitar or lute.  My friend Tim Fox (of hot
jazz Dangerous Rhythms and world music The Pickpocket
Ensemble fame) bought an oud from Celik a while back,
on one of their regular trips through the SF Bay Area,
and plays it on Bay Area recording sessions from time
to time.

The music features the classic Asian cadences and
rhythms - echoes of Chinese traditional music in
there, plus some Western influences from that other
end of the Silk Road.  Contemplative, complex,
otherworldly in the way that throat-singing can be.
Beautiful foundational music (cf.  Mozart's "Turkish
March" in that famous piano sonata whose K number I
need to Google again).

I hope the CD is still available. If and only if it
happens to be out of print, I'd burn a copy or two for
a real fanatic.





 
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