Mercan Dede, both an accomplished singer and a conjurer of the ney and bendir, has successfully melded a range of multifarious artistic virtues in a single melting pot. In this latest album "Seyahatname", he not only tries to fathom the meaning of "virtual journey" by going into concepts such as east-west, past-future and internal-external but also fuses the profundity and spiritual dimension of Sufi music and electronica, with a sublety of a DJ "Seyahatname" emerges as a remarkable work of acoustic-electronic music, standing out asa unique example of its own kind. |
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