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STYLE: oriental-jazz
Annette Maye - clarinetist
Gürkan Balkan - oud (türkish short-necked lute), guitar
Murat Coskun - percussion
Jazz enriched with the finest and spiciest seasonings of an oriental bazaar! Since 1995 the ensemble FisFüz plays „oriental jazz “ and that of the most exquisite! The ensemble founded by Annette Maye and Murat Coskun received the SWR-World Music Preis in 1998 and since then have appeared at important international festivals in North - and Western Europe, in the entire Balkans, among others Jazz-festival in Sofia, North-Africa, Iran etc. The skillfully performed improvisations by the exceptional clarinetist Annette Maye are very multi-faceted in their timbre, change between humour and melancholy, night and day, cool and warm, west and east. Gürkan Balkans gets his oud to „sing“ with ornamental melodic patterns and delicate tonality. Through his new harmonic and melodic expressiveness, he leaves traditional borders behind. On his frame drum as well as various percussive instruments Murat Coskun delivers the fit ting pulse with much tactfulness: A down to earth performance alternates with superior solo acts and frequent technical as well as melodic refinement. The music's effect is mature and close-knit but nevertheless remaining lively and spontaneous. In their new program - almost completely self-compositions - they combine slick oriental tones and peculiar modern scales with an obvious ease of long-time experience . The creative contact with the most variety of rhythms spreads with it an endless joy of playing!
Press Commentaries:
"... post a signal beyond the german "cultural definition". Rolling Stone, 12 / 00
" Without exception they shone with creative solos and a noble mastery and with it combined absolutely brilliant jazz-elements with middle-eastern scales and harmonies''. Westdeutsche newspaper, 02 / 01
"... Their concert was full of musical jewels that they generously gave away to their audience''. Baden newspaper, 12/02,
www.fisfuez.de
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