All tracks were recorded and released in Turkey between 1970 – 1977 and culled from Koray's personal vinyl collection. Includes exclusive photos and remastered audio. An iconic guitar and songwriting genius. A voice of gold – having founded the country's first ever rock and roll group in 1957, he is regarded worldwide as the father of Turkish rock. Forging western sounds...

Inspired by life's twists, turns, and ever-changing rhythms, master oud player and composer Mehmet Polat brings a brand new band on board to present Embodied Poetry. Uniting pianist Mike Roelofs (NL), drummer Martin Hafizi (BG) and bassist Daniel van Huffelen (NL), Polat selected musicians decorated in both jazz and world music, allowing their timbres and musicianship to...

Die traditionsreiche Musik der Sufi wurde in Aleppo über Jahrzehnte mündlich von einer Generation an die nächste gegeben. Mit ihrem neuen Album versucht die Gruppe Jawa dieses Erbe, das vom Krieg in Syrien bedroht ist, zu bewahren. Die alten Meister der Sufi-Musik verschwinden zunehmend und mit ihnen die alten Geheimnisse ihrer Tradition. „Last Breaths from Aleppo“...

The Al-Kindi instrumental ensemble was founded in 1983 by French musician, musicologist and qanun virtuoso Julien Jâlal Eddine Weiss, who died prematurely in 2015. Along with his fellow musicians they made Al-Kindi one of the finest musical ensembles, known for the rigour of its work and the excellence of its interpretation of the Arab classical repertoire. For more than...

For this project, Ilda Simonian has arranged twelve traditional Armenian songs composed by Soghomon Soghomonyan (1869-1936), also known as Komitas Vartabed, for a string quartet and recorded with the duduk (an ancient Armenian double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood) and voice. The album features joyful yet melancholic songs of homesickness. The arrangements and...