[Excerpt of description from London Jazz News] Ask Your Heart is the second album by the genre-defying Mehmet Polat Trio, consisting of Mehmet Polat on oud, Dymphi Peeters on kora and Sinan Arat
on ney. Released on the Home Records label, based in Liege in Belgium,
the album weaves a warm tapestry of sound that invites the listener on a
spiritual jazz journey that is well worth taking.
The kora originates from West Africa; the oud dates back to medieval
Persia; the ney is a vertical wooden flute from the Middle East and
probably one of the oldest instruments still in use. Whilst these are
traditional instruments with extensive musical histories, the group
mixes modal jazz with Balkan, Middle Eastern, and African musical
influences. The result is an intriguing and unique textural soundscape.
This one has had quite a few plays this last fortnight:
Another example of a group I thought I had pidgeonholed but had completely wrong. Memory is a tricky thing.
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This 1989 release features John Oliver's award-winning work El Reposo
del Fuego (for DX7II/TX802 synths & tape), as well as works by
Jean-François Denis and the performer/composer himself, Sergio Barroso.
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Mehmet Polat Trio - Ask Your Heart (Home Records - eMusic)
[Excerpt of description from London Jazz News]
Ask Your Heart is the second album by the genre-defying Mehmet Polat Trio, consisting of Mehmet Polat on oud, Dymphi Peeters on kora and Sinan Arat on ney. Released on the Home Records label, based in Liege in Belgium, the album weaves a warm tapestry of sound that invites the listener on a spiritual jazz journey that is well worth taking.
The kora originates from West Africa; the oud dates back to medieval Persia; the ney is a vertical wooden flute from the Middle East and probably one of the oldest instruments still in use. Whilst these are traditional instruments with extensive musical histories, the group mixes modal jazz with Balkan, Middle Eastern, and African musical influences. The result is an intriguing and unique textural soundscape.
released April 12, 2017
Smooth jazz, the good kind
Wolf Fifth Archive @ UbuWeb archive.org
Another example of a group I thought I had pidgeonholed but had completely wrong. Memory is a tricky thing.
In Other News
Happy Superbowl Sunday to my US friends (& International Gridiron fans.) Just don't broadcast the result until I get to watch the game Mon evening London time!
Lisokot - Fog
released December 30, 2016
Luc Ferrari, Pierre Schaeffer, Yannis Xenakis
This 1989 release features John Oliver's award-winning work El Reposo del Fuego (for DX7II/TX802 synths & tape), as well as works by Jean-François Denis and the performer/composer himself, Sergio Barroso.
Additive synthesis meets swarmology.
Tribute to Karel Goeyvaerts.
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Robert Fripp - June 3, 2006 - St. Andrews Church, Sutton
Bill Mallonee - Forest Full of Wolves. Solid Americana from a great singer/songwriter of Vigilantes of Love fame.
Stream it from Bandcamp.
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/album/smallville-tapes
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Considering how many Norwegian piano trio albums I am rather partial to, the sticker may be a tad hyperbolic, but it is good.