Duble Oryantal

Turkish Music Albums
- Belly Dance Music
- Turkish Gypsy Music

Belly Dance Music

Belly Dance Music & Oriental Dub. To the Western ear, the unfamiliar instrumentation and exotic melodic flavor of what is generally described as Oriental music has one immediate association... The Belly Dancer.

BaBa ZuLa & Mad Professor

Intrepid buccaneers and experimentalists Baba Zula continue to explore uncharted waters with this, their fourth Duble Oryantal (Belly Double) album on Doublemoon. Mixed and mastered in the heart of mega-city Istanbul by legendary British dub producer Mad Professor, who also worked on their last outing Psychebelly Dance Music, Duble Oryantal (Belly Double) is the culmination of years of fearless musical adventuring, and as usual there's a talented and eclectic supporting cast on board for a share of the bounty.

Guest musicians include reggae legends Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Alexander Hacke - bassist with seminal German noise artists Einsturzende Neubauten and Crime and the City Solution, Canadian vocalist and regular collaborator Brenna MacCrimmon and three acclaimed artists who span the spectrum from traditional Turkish music (celebrated clarinettist Husnu Senlendirici from Laco Tayfa) to Turkish rock and pop (Ozkan Ugur from MFÖ), and writer-painter-musician Mehmet Gureli.

The very natural cross-breeding of reggae and oriental music takes well in Baba Zula's electronic treatments of traditional Turkish instruments, and with Duble Oryantal (Belly Double) they have further developed the new genre they have named oriental dub.

Released: 1 Jun 2005 - Doublemoon

Baba Zula With its specifically unique sound created by melding traditional Turkish musical instruments with electronic elements, BabaZula has brought a brand new dimension to Turkish Folk Music. Baba Zula's music is basically an amalgamation of recorded natural sounds with both traditional and modern acoustic and electronic musical instruments, a culmination of disparate electronic effects.
Brenna MacCrimmon When you hear that a woman from the Toronto suburbs with an Anglo name is an internationally acclaimed Turkish folk singer, an obvious question springs up. "I've been asked how this happened a million times," says Brenna MacCrimmon (BA 2003 Innis). The short answer is happenstance, stemming from a trip to a library in Burlington, Ont., during her late teens. "I came across these Turkish albums, and I was really intrigued," she says.
Mad Professor Mad Professor a.k.a Neil Fraser began his musical career on the technical side of things as a service engineer for mixing desks and amplifiers. That skill and a good ear for "on key" music became his asset when he began building a 4 track studio at his home in Thornton Heath. At school Neil was christened Mad Professor by friends who were amazed by the experiments he was carrying out.