Mercan Dede feat. Ceza - Istanbul (World Music)
BackArkın Ilıcalı, better known as Mercan Dede, also known as DJ Arkın Allen, is a Turkish composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer. He divides his time between Turkey, Europe and North America. He is a world music artist, playing a fusion of (traditionally acoustic) Turkish and other oriental musics with electronic sounds. His best known albums include Seyahatname, Su, and Nar. He has worked in collaboration with Turkish and international musicians such as Susheela Raman, Dhafer Youssef, Sheema Mukherjee (Transglobal Underground) and Hugh Marsh. His last album 800 has been selected as the World's Best World Music Album of 2008 by WOMEX. Mercan Dede has been nominated by BBC 3 Awards for World Music in the Middle East & North Africa category twice and 3 times most recently in 2005 in the Club Global category. His album "Su" stayed at #1 spot for two months on the European World Music Charts. He plays with groups of various sizes and fluctuating membership; the Mercan Dede Trio, the Mercan Dede Ensemble, the Secret Tribe etc. The instrumentation includes electronics and the elements of classical Turkish music such as the ney (which he plays himself), percussion, violin, and zither. The groups often include Montreal-based percussionist Scott Russell and Canadian violinist Hugh Marsh and Turkish clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici. The shows often include men and women in Sufi costume doing the Sufi whirling. http://www.mercandede.com/ Albums: 1998: Sufi Dreams 1999: Journeys of a Dervish 2001: Seyahatname 2002: Nar 2003: Su 2004: Fusion Monster 2004: Sufi Traveler 2007: Nefes 2007: 800
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