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Sufi Dreams by Mercan Dede

Mercan Dede - Sufi Dreams "Hidrelez - Dream of Perhan"


Simple yet haunting, the traditional gypsy song from the dream sequence of the movie "Time of the Gypsies", arranged here by Mercan Dede ...

Sufi Dreams by Mercan Dede - Bookshelf


The aesthetics of motion in musics for the Mevlana Celal ed-Din Rumi
373 pages
The aesthetics of motion in musics for the Mevlana Celal ed-Din Rumi

In all, Ilıcalı's discography to date includes, in addition to over twenty compilations and studio productions for other artists, almost eight Mercan Dede albums starting with Sufi Dreams (1998) and continuing through Journeys of a ...

Global beat fusion, the history of the future of music
296 pages
Global beat fusion, the history of the future of music

twist of fate when Sufi Dreams received positive reviews and Dede was asked to perform in his homeland. ... When I showed up in the airport they were holding up a card with 'Mercan Dede' on it, so I go up to them and say 'Hi, ...


All That Music!: Mercan Dede - Sufi Dreams 1996

Delicate, sinuous rhythms and Arabic in the wind around him deep in a lush garden with multiple levels of sighs, your heart rate and breathing, while the voice beautiful Brenna MacCrimmon evokes exotic landscapes of inner and outer world traveled through the heart chakra. Dense, poetic, evocative and sometimes deeply sad, Sufi trance music in Dreams is the (very) old-school tradition. Ancient Eastern spiritual and meditative chants and rhythms are carefully and subtley contemporary electronic ambient married in a ceremony in the square of the global village.The old meets the new born in his transcendental cycle time constraints and spatial boundaries is also reflected in the circular structure of composition of the individual parts and the whole CD. All songs are composed and arranged by Mercan Dede Mercan Dede & Kristian Kostov, except track 1, composed of Mercan Dede and Kristian Kostov, track 5, a traditional gypsy song, arranged by Mercan Dede and Kristian Kostov....

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Burcu Karadağ wants to be judged by her music, not by her gender

Today's Zaman - May 21, 5061

Burcu Karadağ wants to be judged by her music, not by her gender Karadağ believes that projects undertaken by such musicians as the world-famous Kudsi Erguner and electronic musician and reed flute player Mercan Dede in recent years have done much to increase interest in the ney. She also believes that the ney being