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Personnel: Erkan Dedeoglu (kanun); Yurdal Tokcan (oud); Resat Senyaylar, Timur Senyaylar, Ilyas Tetìk, Özcan Büyük, Sendur Güzelel, Ibrahim Sentürker, Ayhan Senyaylar, Özer Arkun (strings); Sükrü Kabaci (clarinet); Fahrettin Yarkin (bendir).
Liner Note Authors: Karin Tubbesing; Diz Heller; Erkan Dedeoglu.
Recording information: Studio Sabah Ses Kayit, Turkey (1997).
Director: Erkan Dedeoglu.
Unknown Contributor Role: Fahrettin Yarkin.
The Turkish kanun player Erkan Dedeoglu offers listeners on this CD Turkish classical music by composers from the 19th and 20th centuries. The kanun is a plucked-box zither, also called a psaltery. Made of walnut, plane, pine, or ebony, the instrument rests on the musician's knees or on a table and is played with plektra on both index fingers. It can have 72 or 75 strings. A classical instrument of Arabian origin, it is found around the Middle East, North Africa, and some parts of Asia. The ensemble accompanying Erkan Dedeoglu comprises the tambur (a long-necked four-stringed lute), the kemençe (a three-string short-necked fiddle), the ney (a rim-blown reed flute), and the darbuka (a goblet-shaped drum), as well as the oud (the well-known Arab lute), the Western clarinet, and other percussion. All of these instruments are typical of the Middle East, Central Asia, and/or North Africa. A music that deserves to be discovered. ~ Bruno Deschênes
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