Burhan Öçal & Enver Izmailov - Black Sea - Kara Deniz 1992

Genre: World Music, Fusion
Format: flac + cue + log
Released: 1992
Label: ADA

1. At The Mediterranean Sea (Akdeniz Kenarinda)

2. Troubled Water (Deniz Rahats?z)

3. In The Cold Water (Soguk Su'da)

4. Tim Tim

5. Legend (Hikaye)

6. Beyond Pakistan (Pakistan Taraf?)

7. Usbekh-Tartar-Turk Wedding (Ozbek-Tartar-Turk Dugunu)

8. The Same Root (Ozumuz Bir)

9. Departure (Ve Veda)

Drums, Percussion, Baglama [Saz], Oud, Vocals, Arranged By - Burhan Ocal

Electric Guitar [No Electronic Effects, No Overdubs], Composed By - Enver Izmailov

Burhan Ocal

(born 1959 in K?rklareli, Turkey) is a Turkish music specialist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is recognized worldwide as a virtuosic percussionist specializing in a variety of percussion instruments, interested in combining many genres and cultural traditions, such as Free funk jazz and Western classical music, with his own.

In his special project “Trakya All Stars” he collaborates with master musicians from the Thrace region, paying tribute to the musical heritage of his birthplace K?rklareli. The Roma-Balkan influenced album possesses a timeless character which manages to take deep tradition to a contemporary level. It is produced by the Tunisian born French musician, sound engineer and producer Smadj, highly respected for his knowledge of oriental music and for his digital innovations. With his latest project “ New Dream “ Burhan Ocal brings new wealth to Turkish classical music by breaking the bindings of its constricting rules and allowing the music to breathe again with new life.

Burhan Ocal performed and recorded with internationally acclaimed musicians including Joe Zawinul, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Paco de Lucia, Natacha Atlas, Kronos Quartet, Eliot Fisk, Sting, Maria, Seamus Blake Quartet, Joao Pires and George Gruntz. Winner of the German Record Critic’s Award twice and the Prix Choc, Ocal toured extensively and appeared in prestigious world festivals including [Festival International de Jazz de Montreal] to an audience of more than 150,000.

Enver Izmaylov

(b. 1955 in Fergana, Uzbekistan) is a prominent Crimean Tatar folk and jazz musician (guitarist) resident of Ukraine. Born into a family previously deported from Crimea (Ukraine), Izmaylov returned in 1989.

Enver Izmaylov graduated from the Fergana music school in 1973 majoring on bassoon, and had started playing the guitar at age 15 (about 1970).

Izmaylov does not pluck the strings, but uses jazz tapping - an original technique of electric guitar playing when a musician plays with both hands on the neck by tapping on the strings with his finger-tips, as if it were a keyboard. He developed this technique to a climax simultaneously with, but not knowing of Stanley Jordan.

Izmaylov's music is an original blend of mainstream jazz, Crimean Tatar, Turkish, Uzbek and Balkan folk music and classical music. Many of his pieces are composed in time signatures which are not standard in classical music, but are common in Balkan music and Central Asian music, such as 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 11/8, 11/16 and 13/16.

Izmaylov has toured extensively in Russia, Ukraine and Europe and has participated in several cross-cultural projects in Eastern Europe. He was the first-prize winner of the First European International Guitarist Competition. Enver Izmaylov was voted for the Musician Of The Year 1995 by the Ukrainian music critics.

Izmaylov is also a competent throatsinger. Enver's daughter Leniye Izmaylova is a popular singer among Crimean Tatars. She combines jazz, folk and pop music in her repertoire.