A CD that does not make look for “old times”

In 1940s, the music master Hüseyin Saadettin Arel was complaining about the degeneration of turkish music, while the music in the country was in his golden age and master composers like Kapdanizade Ali Rıza Bey and Muhlis Sabaattin Bey were giving their most brilliant, avant-garde and promising artworks. Unfortunately some while after it has been evident by most people that Arel was right and Turkish music started inclining artistically until our times.

But an album I have recently listened helped me go trough this pessimism. This is the album named “Songs of September” by the group “Incesaz”.

The most important things in this album are the elegance in their compositions and their sound. Classical instruments are combined with the possibilities of the new technology and the result is a music that is prospect to be a pioneer for the future of turkish music.

Listen to Incesaz to make yourself an alternative to today's kitschy noise presented as today's music, and discover the taste and delicacy of a masterpiece and the sound of the future, not the past.

Hürriyet / Öteki Dünya, 29 December 2002 , Sunday, page 16, by Murat Bardakçı.