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Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Dance For Peace (Sufi Selections)
Label/Cat#: Z.E.T. Muzik # CLZ-CD 201106 | Country/Year: Turkey 2011
Genre: World Music | Style: Oriental, Sufi
CD Info:
Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Dance For Peace (Sufi Selections)
Label: Z.E.T Muzik
Catalog#: CLZ-CD 201106
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Turkey
Released: 2011
Genre: World
Style: Oriental, Sufi
Tracklist:
01- Ayasofya (Saint Sophia) 3:12
02- Garden at Topkapi 1:54
03- The story of Suleyman 2:00
04- Whirling dervish 10:42
05- Beyond the sky 4:40
06- Gates of heaven 3:49
07- Your love is my cure 6:58
08- Modern mystics 2:59
09- Moment of doubt 5:19
10- Song of the Pharaohs 5:57
11- Sultan of the heart 7:22
12- Salute to the sun 8:57
13- Yunus 10:12
Total : 74:00
All tracks are originally recorded between 1988-1998
Musicians:
Omar Faruk Tekbilek; Vocals, Ney (middle eastern flute), Kaval (middle eastern piccolo), Baglama (longnecked gourd guitar) , Darbuka (middle eastern hand drum), Bandir (low drum), Daire, Def, Mijmiz, Jura, Tambourine & Oud
Brian Keane; Six string nylon & steel acoustic Guitars, 12 string steel Guitar, Electric slide Guitar, Synthesizers, Bass, Windchimes, Percussion & Sound effects
Ara Dinkjian; Oud, Sazbush, Cumbus & Bass
Hasan Isakkut; Kanun (middlle eastern harp)
Dincer Dalkilic; Rabab & Tanbur
Emin Gunduz; Kanun
Omar Faruk is the recipient of the "Best Artist of the Turkish Music Award 2003 "from the "Turkish Writers Association"
Honored as a peacemaker and virtuoso, OMAR FARUK TEKBILEK is now one of the most sought-after musicians, whose work transcends political boundaries while maintaining traditional sensibilities in a way few artists can manage.
Omar Faruk was a musical prodigy. He was born in Adana, Turkey to a musical family who nurtured his precocious talents. At the age of eight, he began his musical career by developing proficiency on the kaval, a small diatonic flute.
He is a nominee for the BBC World Music Award 2003 in the category of the Middle East
In 1967, upon turning sixteen, he moved to Istanbul where he and his brother spent the following decade as in-demand session musicians. Omar Faruk stayed true to his folkloric roots, but during this period of frenetic session work in the metropolitan music scene, he explored Arabesque, Turkish, and Western styles and the compositional potential of the recording studio. In Istanbul he also met the Mevlevi Dervishes, the ancient Sufi order of Turkey. He did not join the order, but the head Neyzen (ney player), Aka Gunduz Kutbay, became another source of inspiration. Omar Faruk was profoundly influenced by their mystical approach and fusion of sound and spirit. During that time he was introduced to Hatha Yoga and eventually to Tai Chi and Chi Qong, which he continues to practice daily.
After establishing himself as one of the top session musicians in Turkey, he began touring Europe and Australia. By 1971 at the age of 20, he made his first tour of the United States as a member of a Turkish classical/folk ensemble. It was while touring in the US that he met his future wife, Suzan, and in 1976 he relocated to upstate New York to marry her.
Omar Faruk found very few options for a Turkish musician in the US, so he formed a band called the Sultans with an Egyptian keyboardist, a Greek bouzouki player, and his brother-in-law on percussion. It started as a pop band but very quickly turned into a sort of Pan-Near Eastern ensemble. They began to attract some attention within the circle of Middle Eastern dance fans. They managed to record five albums during this time, but Omar Faruk was still unknown outside his local musical community.
This was all about to change with the fateful meeting with Brian Keane in 1988. In the following years, he and Keane would produce another six recordings together, launching Omar Faruk boldly into the world music scene.
Omar Faruk Tekbilek has since established himself as one of the world's foremost exponents of Middle Eastern music. A multi-instrumentalist par excellence, he has collaborated with a number of leading musicians of international repute such as jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, keyboard player Karl Berger, ex-Cream rock drummer Ginger Baker, Ofra Haza, Simon Shaheen, Hossam Ramzy, Glen Velez, Bill Laswell, Mike Mainieri, Peter Erskine, Trilok Gurtu, Jai Uttal and Steve Shehan among others. He has contributed to numerous film and TV scores and to many recordings including world sacred music albums, and has been touring extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, Australia, North and South America.
He is also the recipient of the US Golden Belly Musician-Of-The-Year-Award for 1998 and again for 1999
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