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| Desert Dreams |
| 12.02.03 (2:05 am) [edit] |
Multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek's new disc,
"Alif", resonates with longing and sadness. An able and
restrained synthesizer of east and west, here the
atmospheric touches of programming and keyboards don't
interfere at all with Tekbilek's somber spirituality.
Filled with prayerful searching, this superb music is
centered and heart tugging. Gardener, featuring
Mamak Khadem's beautiful voice as a counterpoint to the
leader, is a good example of the weaving of feminine and
masculine longing in his music. The inescapable beauty of
"Alif" tenders the praxis of lover, loved and beloved.
Tekbilek's approach is synthetic but the strands of
improvisation, ambience, and modernism, in as much as
those elements divert the music from the purely classical
modes of Anatolia, are rendered with such refinement and
focus as to evoke the universal song of the devoted
believer.
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