My Album:

         I have combined on this album four kinds of music that have fascinated me since my childhood: Turkish folk music, Turkish classical music, Western classical music and jazz. Turkish folk music, expressed mostly with the saz, is highly emotional and, at the same time, very powerful. Songs with free measure (called ‘Bozlak’) are particularly intense and melancholic pieces. I have applied to my song "Weeping Silently” an entirely new arrangement, whereby I have written the melody and the vocals, which are actually composed freely, so that, it was possible to combine them with piano and strings.

Turkish classical music is really deeply founded and itself a combination of Arabic, Persian and Turkish music. The ut (the lute) and the ney (a flute) belong to it. The main structure of this music is based on makams which have their own tonal system. The ney usually has seven holes to produce these certain sounds. But to be able to play the ney together with the Western instruments, I have built it with eleven full-chromatic holes and five flaps, as a novelty in the world. And finally, the Turkish improvisations are normally modal. I developed my improvisations on these songs with multimodal harmonic structures, which is also quite new.

I tried to create a new way of composing which is the synthesis of those four kinds of music. I wish, you will enjoy it.

 The Songs of the Album: