Turkey - Kâni Karaca & Aka Gündüz Kutbay

Meşk ... tükenmeyen iştikay

Masters of Turkish Music
Kâni Karaca / Aka Gündüz Kutbay
Kalan Musik 24827 / 24828 [CDx2+book]

Contents:

1. Kâr-i Nâtik (Hatibzâde Osman Efendi)
2. Makam Tarifi
3. Eviç-Bûselik Taksim
4. Eviç-Bûselik I. Beste (Ismail Dede)
5. Eviç-Bûselik II. Beste (Ismail Dede)
6. Eviç-Bûselik Agir-Semâi (Ismail Dede)
7. Eviç-Bûselik Nakiş Yürük-Semâi (Ismail Dede)
8. Hicâz Durak (Haci Ârif Bey)
9. Nühüft Durak (Niyazi Misri / Ali Şir ü Gani)
10. Ferahfezâ Şarki (Fehmi Tokay)

1. Sultânî-Irâk Taksim
2. Sultânî-Irâk I. Beste (Abdülhalim Aga)
3. Sultânî-Irâk II. Beste (Kü&ccecil;ük Mehmed Aga)
4. Sultânî-Irâk Agir-Semâi (Abdülhalim Aga)
5. Sultânî-Irâk Nakiş Yürü-Semâi (Kü&ccecil;ük Mehmed Aga)
6. Ş-u Tarâb Mavlevî-Âyini (Ismail Dede Efendi
7. Bayâti Beste (Moris Kordova)
8. Hüzzâm Beste (sahibi meçhul)
9. Segâh Şarki (Kâni Karaca)
10. Kürdîlihicâzkâr Şarki (Kâni Karaca)

Performers: Kâni Karaca (voice), Aka Gündüz Kutbay (ney)

Playing time: 138'

Recording date: unknown; released: 2009

Kâni Karaca (1930-2004) was a blind reciter of Sufi religious texts, and his voice forges a powerful lead here (comparing with e.g. Persian repertory), but in some sense the main performer is actually Aka Gündüz Kutbay (1934-1979) on ney. The latter was something of a legend, and interested in a variety of music beyond Turkish traditional repertories. (In this same series, he also released the two volume mostly-solo Aşk recitals.) Here the presentation is unusual in the sense that Kutbay is still in the process of teaching Karaca the music from notation, and there're occasional breaks to talk about that. The result has a real spontaneity & gravity, illustrating what was already an old tradition, in the process of being rediscovered. So this is another unique recording.

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