https://facebook/middle.east.ethnic.music?fref=ts Cesm-I Dil (The Inner Eye) Ethno-Jazz-Mystic Sounds From Anatolia Erkan Ogur and Mikail Aslan are highly respected and admired musicians from Anatolia. These two important musicians of Anatolia have been sharing the same stage under the Cesm-i Dil (The Inner Eye) project since last year. Erkan Oğur, (born 1954) is a Turkish musician. A pioneer of fretless guitars, he invented the first fretless classical guitar in 1976. A composer, he has influenced many musicians with his compositions combining the sounds of Turkish folk music, classical music with the ancient traditional music. He has played many concerts all over the world. He is regarded as a master of the kopuz and bağlama lutes. Erkan Ogur started on violin as a child and learned cumbus, a small fretless lute, from local musicians playing traditional dances at weddings. Hearing Jimi Hendrix on the radio was a major shock, and in high school he began studying guitar. While in Munich on a scholarship to graduate in physics, he decided to dedicate fully to music and threw himself full-time into a classical repertoire. He developed a bad inflammation of the wrist, and this — with the idea of playing on guitar in the microtonal style of Turkish maqams — was a key motivation to develop his fretless guitar. After meeting Robert "One Man Band" Johnson in Istanbul, he went to the U.S. for two years, playing blues on the road; he returned in Turkey in the ’80s, finished his Conservatory studies, and his guitar and saz fills were soon very much in demand by producers of pop music and can be heard on Sezen Aksu’s CDs. His first CD was released in Germany (Fretless, Feuer und Ice); after that in Turkey he published Gulun Kokusu Vardi (Kalan, 1998); Hiç (Nothing) with saz/cura player Okan Murat Öztürk, (1999); Anadolu Besik, Bir Ömürlük Misafir including a duet with Philip Catherine, and the soundtrack to Yavuz Turgul’s film Eskiya (all on Kalan 2000); and Fuad (2001) with Djivan Gasparyan. He plays in Öztürk’s brilliant Bengi saz Trio. His yet to be recorded Telvin Trio is dedicated to concentrated and freewheeling improvisations in the spirit of John Coltrane and Bill Evans, based on the traditional maqam system, of which Ogur is a major practitioner Mikail Aslan born in Dersim (1972) comes from a Kurdish-Zazaki culture who masterfully plays the tembur, guitar and the saxophone. When he was 10 years old he had to immigrate to city of Kayseri with his family. In 1991 he started studying Maths after 2 years he was sent away from university for political reasons. After this incident Aslan decided to be professionally involved in music. Since a very young age he was interested in Baglama. Aslan did his first compositions in Malatya where he was studying university. In 1995 he had to move to Germany for political reasons. Aslan wanted his music to be on European stages, that is why he sat up Mikail Aslan Ensemble with two German Jazz musicians (Michael Weil and Dieter Schmalzried) in 2000. Later, with the same musicians they produced Sounds from Euphrates project which they performed in many cities in Germany. In 2005 he fused Authentic Music with symphony orchestra which he had been dreaming about for a long time. The project Cesm-i Dil (The Inner Eye) is leading the way in the infusion of the musical cultures of Turkish and Kurdish-Zazaki. The hope is to create a perfect synergy leading to the tolerance and the togetherness regardless of political preference and the diverse communities. The Cesm-i Dil Concert has been performed in Germany, Turkey, Austria and Switzerland. So far the project has been successful and popular.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:00:35 +0000