Nuage - Prints of You (2014) [Electronic]

https://translationrecordings.bandcamp.com

Call Super - Suzi Ecto (2014) [Ambient , Electronic]

https://soundcloud.com/call-super

Slow Dancing Society - The Cogent Sea (2014) [Electronic , Ambient]

http://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/slow-dancing-society

Emancipator - Dusk to Dawn (2013) [Ambient , Abstract Electro]

http://www.emancipatormusic.com

Country : U.S.A
Genre : Abstract Electro
Style : Electronic , Ambient , Downtempo , Trip Hop

Label : Loci Records

 

 

 

 

Fin 2008, je découvre Emancipator dans une compile Trip-hop et là coup de foudre. Les basses bien douces, les voix, le rythme simple mais parfaitement maitrisés et ces belles lignes de guitares m'ont immédiatement conquis. Lors d'un voyage au USA je suis même allé à Portland pour voir son premier show en première partie de Bonobo live (imaginez l'affiche) pour finir à une soirée chez lui en compagnie de ses colloc'.
Puis un 2e album, dans la même lignée, moins surprenant mais des titres comme Rattlesnake m'ont rappelé la qualité de l'artiste.
Et enfin le 3e album qui, sans être mauvais (Minor cause est certainement une de ses meilleurs création) ne sort pas assez des sentiers battus. La construction de l'album est exactement le même que les précédant, cela finit par tourner trop rapidement en rond. Ces voix, qui faisaient le charmes de son premier album finissent par être agaçantes voire vraiment chiantes. Néanmoins tout n'est pas à jeter, la mélodie de saxo de The Way est superbe et Afterglow est assez jolie mais... il y a un petit quelque chose qui ne permet pas à l'album de rester aussi bon que ses prédécesseurs..Source

 

Tracklist :

 

01 Minor Cause
02 Valhalla
03 Merlion
04 Outlaw
05 Dusk to Dawn
06 The Way
07 Afterglow
08 Eve II
09 Natural Cause
10 Galapagos


Minor Cause - Ilya Goldberg (violin, viola), Jamie Janover (hammered dulcimer), Madeline Hawthorne (vocals)
Valhalla - Ilya Goldberg (violin)
Merlion - Ilya Goldberg (violin)
Dusk to Dawn - Derek Van Scoten (mandolin, guitar), Thacher Schmid (violin, viola)
The Way - Dominic Lalli (saxophone), Cedar Miller (percussion), Thacher Schmid (violin)
Afterglow - Cedar Miller (percussion)
Eve II - Eve Grice (vocals)
Natural Cause - Marcus Marino (piano), Ilya Goldberg (violin)
Galapagos - Rena Jones (cello)
Most other instruments by Doug Appling
Mixed by Doug Appling
Additional mixing by Ilya Goldberg
Mastered by Nick Moon at Tone Proper Studios
Album photo by Owen Miller

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipator_%28artist%29

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Emancipator

21 Hertz - Infinity Coast (2013) [Trip Hop]

http://www.21hz.org
https://www.myspace.com/21hertz

Country : Sweden
Genre : Trip Hop
Style : Electronic , Downtempo

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Tracklist :

01 – Scents
02 – Infinity Coast
03 – Butcher
04 – My Neighborhood
05 – Watching You
06 – Touching
07 – Travelling
08 – My House
09 – Greed

Ganja White Night - Mystic Herbalist (2013) [Electronic , Dubstep]

https://www.facebook.com/GanjaWhiteNight

Country : Belgium
Genre : Electronic , Dubstep
Style : Drum & Bass , Electro Dub , Abstract Hip Hop

 

 

 

 

Tracklist :

1.Intro 01:13
2.Endless Sky 06:31
3.Bubblegum 07:00
4.Black Widow 07:27
5.Jock Horror 05:42
6.Misty 07:23
7.Amnesia 07:29
8.Euforia 05:11
9.Blue Velvet 07:24
10.Brains Escape (Feat. Simon) 06:26

Dictaphone - Poems from a rooftop (2012) [Ambient , Electronic]

http://www.dictaphone-music.de

Country : Deutschland
Genre : Electronic
Style : Ambient , Experimental , Electronic , Neo-Classical , Minimal


Label - Sonic Pieces

 

 

 

 

Tracklist :

01 - The Conversation
02 - Maelbeek
03 - Manami
04 - Soylent Green (1973)
05 - Poem From A Rooftop
06 - A Bout De Souffle
07 - Rattle
08 - Au Botanique
09 - Nr. 12

Nedry - In A Dim Light (2012) [Electronic , Trip Hop]

http://nedrymakesmusic.com

Country : U.K
Genre : Trip Hop
Style : Electronic , Experimental , IDM , Dubstep


ARTWORK BY : Dan Tassell of Factory Fifteen
Label : Monotreme Records

 

 

 

 

Tracklist :

1. I Would Rather Explode (5:02)
2. Post Six (5:06)
3. Violaceae (4:53)
4. Havana Nights (5:40)
5. Dusk Till Dawn (3:08)
6. Float (6:49)
7. Land Leviathan (1:52)
8. TMA (3:03)
9. here.now.here (5:21)
10. Home (6:18)

Semiomime - From Memory (2011) [Abstract Electronic]

http://www.djhidden.com

Country : Netherlands
Style : Ambient , Abstract Electronic

 

 

 

 

Tracklist :

1 Unveiled
2 The Entrance
3 Stalactite
4 Theorem
5 Gnosis
6 Passage
7 Eidolon
8 Transistor
9 Moon
10 Parade
11 Remembering
12 Pan's Alcove
13 The Mole Children
14 Hendershot
15 Proceeder
16 The Exquisites
17 Later Days

Retro Discography : Mercan Dede (2012) [Alternative World Fusion]

http://www.mercandede.com

Origine du Groupe : Turkey , Canada
Style : Alternative Fusion World Music , Electronic Ethno

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discography :

• Sufi Dreams (Golden Horn 1998)
• Journeys of a Dervish (Golden Horn 1999)
• Seyahatname (Doublemoon 2001)
• Nar (Doublemoon 2002)
• Fusion Monster (Numoon 2004) (as DJ Arkin Allen)
• Su (Doublemoon 2003) (23 July 2003)
• Sufi Traveler (High Times 2004)
• Nefes (Doublemoon 2007) (22 June 2007)
• 800 (Doublemoon 2007) (5 November 2007)

 

Mercan Dede (born Arkın Ilıcalı, 1966, Bursa, Turkey), also known as DJ Arkin Allen, is a Turkish composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer. He divides his time between Turkey, Europe and North America. He is a world music artist, playing a fusion of traditional acoustic Turkish and other oriental musics with electronic sounds.

His best known albums include Seyahatname, Su, and Nar. He has worked in collaboration with Turkish and international musicians such as Susheela Raman, Dhafer Youssef, Sheema Mukherjee (Transglobal Underground) and Hugh Marsh.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 His music 4 Discography 5 Achievements 6 Collaborations 7 See also 8 References

Early life and education

Dede was born to a working class and secular parents in Bursa.^[1]

He moved to Istanbul from Bursa to study journalism and photography in Istanbul University. Upon his graduation, he received scholarship from University of Saskatchewan and moved to Montreal, Canada.^[1][2]

Career

The Mercan Dede ensemble was founded in 1997,^[3] by which time Arkın had been working as a musician for some years. Their first album was Sufi Dreams, released in 1998. This album got a boost when the music was used in a German television documentary on Sufi music.

In 2001 he released his third album, Seyahatname, which means "travelogue" in old Turkish, evokes the era of the great caravanserai crossing Anatolia on the silk road. The sound of the ney goes back to this period, and the music aspires to the spirit of the mystic Sufi poets of that time, such as Mevlana. Dede describes the sound of the ney as "a pure, universal spiritual sound" evoking deep feelings, deeper than we can comprehend in just our short time on earth. The ney "speaks the language of love, instantly comprehensible in the heart, compared to which all the mosques, churches, temples built to decorate (our spirituality) drift away". The album is Dede's personal effort to reflect on his own spiritual journey.^[4]

His 2002 album Nâr (which means "fire" in Turkish) continued in the same vein. In 2004 he released Su ("water") stayed at number one on European World Music Charts for two months. The album was recorded with an international line-up of musicians and has more vocals on it than the previous works. One track featuring folk singer Sabahat Akkiraz was particularly popular in Turkey. Dede made his U.S. debut at the first Globalfest that year, followed by a North American tour and the release of the album Fusion Monster under the name 'Arkin Allen', which has a slightly different twist on his familiar sound. He was commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Culture as the music director of the Guldestan project to represent Turkish culture and arts all around the globe, working alongside choreographer Beyhan Murphy.

The February 2007 album Nefes ("breath") included Transglobal Underground sitar player Sheema Mukherjee in the line-up. The album includes spoken songs in Turkish, Arabic, and French.

Mercan Dede and his Secret Tribe have given live performances at festivals including the Montreal Jazz Festival, WOMEX, the Festival de Trans Musicales and Banlieus Bleus, Arezzo, the Montreux Jazz Festival, the World Roots Festival and the Rhythm Sticks Festival and at more than 100 shows in Vienna, Geneva, Brussels, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam and Istanbul.

His music

His sound incorporates traditional instruments and ney from Turkey and other parts of the world, with horns, dance beats, ambient electronic music, and a Sufi spirituality. The name Mercan Dede itself evokes Sufism as "Dede" is the word for 'elder' in the Sufi traditions, although the name Mercan Dede was taken from a character in a modern Turkish novel. Dede composes his own music, some of which is rhythmic, some new age.

He plays with groups of various sizes and fluctuating membership: the Mercan Dede Trio, the Mercan Dede Ensemble, and the Secret Tribe. The instrumentation used includes electronics and elements of classical Turkish music such as the ney (which he plays himself), percussion, violin, and zither. The groups often include Montreal-based percussionist Scott Russell, Canadian violinist Hugh Marsh, and Turkish clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici. The shows often include men and women in Sufi costume doing Sufi whirling.

Dede works as a DJ under the name Arkın Allen, specialising in music related to that of his live groups, in this case house and techno dance music with an oriental flavour.^[5]

Dede has been criticised by Turkish music purists for not being steeped in the Sufi traditions and for not properly representing Sufism in his music and writings.^[6] Another criticism is that the whirling dancers he uses to accompany his shows do not accurately display the correct dervish routines. However, as more than a ney player, working just as often as a DJ as performing live in concert, with an audience consisting of clubbers, not Islamic scholars, Dede aims to synthesise several different traditions rather than recreate a historically pure music.

Discography

• Sufi Dreams (Golden Horn 1998)
• Journeys of a Dervish (Golden Horn 1999)
• Seyahatname (Doublemoon 2001)
• Nar (Doublemoon 2002)
• Fusion Monster (Numoon 2004) (as DJ Arkin Allen)
• Su (Doublemoon 2003) (23 July 2003)
• Sufi Traveler (High Times 2004)
• Nefes (Doublemoon 2007) (22 June 2007)
• 800 (Doublemoon 2007) (5 November 2007)

Achievements

• His album 800 was selected as the World's Best World Music Album of 2008 by WOMEX!
• Mercan Dede has been nominated by BBC 3 Awards for World Music in the Middle East and North Africa category twice and three times in the Club Global category.
• Su stayed at #1 spot for two months on the European World Music Charts
• Featured in Fatih Akin's documentary Crossing the Bridge
• Composer of some music for the recent work Istanbul by Pina Bausch, the German choreographer

Collaborations

• Violinist, long-time collaborator Hugh Marsh - (Canada)
• Vocalist Susheela Raman - (England, Australia, India)
• Kanun virtuoso Göksel Baktagir - (Turkey)
• Clarinet virtuoso Hüsnü Şenlendirici, and his group Laço Tayfa - (Turkey)
• Vocalist Dhafer Youssef - (Tunisia)
• Urban poet and rapper Ceza - (Turkey)
• Azam Ali and her group, Niyaz - (Iran)
• Classical pianist Fazil Say - (Turkey)
• Jazz saxophonist Ilhan Ersahin - (Turkey)
• 'Arabesque' singer Özcan Deniz - (Turkey)
• Folk singer Aynur Dogan - (Turkey)
• Pop Musician Peter Murphy - (England, Turkey)
• Hurdy Gurdy player Ben Grossman - (Canada)
• Dancer Emine Mira Hunter (née Burke) - (Canada)
• Dancer Tevhide Tanya Evanson - (Canada)

See also

• Music of Turkey
• List of Turkish musicians

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Breath of life for old genre, [1]
2. ^ Arkin Ilicali, [2]
3. ^ DEDE, Mercan, International Who's Who in Popular Music 2007, Routledge. Entry retrieved from Google Books 2012-01-17.
4. ^ Liner notes to Seyahatname - rough translation from the Turkish
5. ^ Anthony Ham, Middle East, Lonely Planet ebook (2009), MUSIC: Turkish p.95 (retrieved from Google Books 2012-01-17).
6. ^ Kudsi Erguner in Roll Magazine, Istanbul. November 2001