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Mercan Dede
Jul. 23rd, 2004 01:15 pmMercan Dede, the Turkish-born, Montreal-residing musician who worked with Peter Murphy on his last album, is coming to town October 22! Tickets are 21.50 plus a bunch of charges, and are available through World Music (I would link directly, but it's a mess of frames--just look through the concert listings to find it). It should be a brilliant concert. From the World Music description:
Turkish-born and Montreal-based Mercan Dede and his ensemble of Turkish and Canadian musicians subtly fuse the Eastern spiritual traditions of Sufi music with contemporary ambient sounds to create a unique mix of old and new, sacred and secular, East and West. The music may be modern, but it clearly grows out of the otherworldly heart of the sema ritual of the Whirling Dervishes. Turkish instruments like ney (reed flute) and kanun (zither) and Middle Eastern percussion are spiked with electronics while a whirling dervish dances onstage.
You so cannot go wrong with all that! I whirl and twirl with anticipation!
Turkish-born and Montreal-based Mercan Dede and his ensemble of Turkish and Canadian musicians subtly fuse the Eastern spiritual traditions of Sufi music with contemporary ambient sounds to create a unique mix of old and new, sacred and secular, East and West. The music may be modern, but it clearly grows out of the otherworldly heart of the sema ritual of the Whirling Dervishes. Turkish instruments like ney (reed flute) and kanun (zither) and Middle Eastern percussion are spiked with electronics while a whirling dervish dances onstage.
You so cannot go wrong with all that! I whirl and twirl with anticipation!
