http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/ Oriental Music - Belly Dance Music en http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-mercan_dede-cp-63 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-mercan_dede-cp-63 Thu, 05 May 11 02:13:26 +0300 Mercan Dede believes that when you put digital, electronic sounds together with hand-made, human ones, you can create universal language, capable of uniting old and young, ancient and modern, East and West. It’s a bold claim, but the Turkish-born and Montreal-based musician/producer/DJ has the career and the music to back it up. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-laco_tayfa-cp-62 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-laco_tayfa-cp-62 Thu, 05 May 11 02:11:34 +0300 Laco Tayfa represents a new synthesis within the Turkish Roma (Gypsy) tradition. Under the leardership of clarinetist Husnu Senlendirici, Laco Tayfa brings Turkish regional folk music into dialogue with contemporary world music styles, fired by a driving Roma improvisational style known as "dogaclama". The name "Laco Tayfa" is a synthesis of Romani and Turkish: "laco" is a Romani world meaning "good"; "tayfa" is an Arabic transplant into Turkish connoting a combined work group, extended family and musical ensemble. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-husnu_senlendirici-cp-61 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-husnu_senlendirici-cp-61 Thu, 05 May 11 02:09:54 +0300 Husnu Senlendirici was born on 12 July 1976, in Bergama, a small town in the Aegean region. Coming from a family deeply rooted in musical traditions (his grandfather, Husnu Senlendirici, used to play the clarinet and trumpet; his other grandfather, Fahrettin Kofeci, the clarinet; and his recently deceased father, Ergun Senlendirici, the trumpet), he immediately became fascinated by music and started playing the clarinet when he was only five. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-burhan_ocal-cp-60 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-burhan_ocal-cp-60 Thu, 05 May 11 02:07:27 +0300 Burhan Ocal, a peerless finger drum musician. Burhan Ocal has spent his career bridging the musical cultures of East and West, ancient and modern.. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-baba_zula-cp-59 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-baba_zula-cp-59 Thu, 05 May 11 02:05:47 +0300 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. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-mad_professor-cp-58 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-mad_professor-cp-58 Thu, 05 May 11 02:04:21 +0300 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-brooklyn_funk_essentials-cp-57 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-brooklyn_funk_essentials-cp-57 Thu, 05 May 11 02:01:12 +0300 Brooklyn Funk Essentials scored a big number of world-wide record sales with their first album 'Cool and Steady and Easy'. With the jazz funk piece "Katibim" played and prepared for Fuji Film World Music Days 2 in 1996, they received great response and after this Istanbul concert, "Katibim" became the ending piece in the concerts they have been giving all round the world. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-brenna_maccrimmon-cp-56 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-brenna_maccrimmon-cp-56 Thu, 05 May 11 01:59:10 +0300 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. ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-tulum-cp-55 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-tulum-cp-55 Thu, 05 May 11 01:54:18 +0300 Tulum (Turkish Bagpipe) is one of the wind instrument group, it consists of three parts; the skin, "nav" and mouthpiece. Air is stored in the skin, and when this is squeezed the air is sent on to the nav, which is itself divided into two parts, the "analik" (main part) and "dillik" (tongue part). ]]> http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-kaval-cp-52 http://www.exoticmusicshop.com/nm-kaval-cp-52 Thu, 05 May 11 01:54:13 +0300 Kaval (flageolet) is a wind instrument, popularly known as the shepherd’s instrument. It also goes by the names "guval" and "kuval" in some areas. There is a widespread popular belief that shepherds use the kaval to direct their flocks. The word ‘kaval’ itself comes from "kav", meaning hollow. ]]>