Özkan, Talip: L'Art du tanbûr - Turcja

Özkan, Talip

C561042

The deep resonances of the tanbûr lute and the song of Talip Özkan: a contemplative music inherited from the old masters (peşrev, semaı), open to popular dances such as the zeybek - fidelity to tradition and new ways of makam. • The deep resonances of the tanbûr lute and the song of Talip Özkan: a contemplative music inherited from the old masters (peşrev, semaı), open to popular dances such as the zeybek - fidelity to tradition and new ways of makam. • Talip Özkan (1939-2010), born in the Denizli region (south-west of Turkey), was a soloist, choirmaster at Turkish Radio-Television, pedagogue and field researcher. He came to France in 1976 and continued his research and teaching there. An exceptional instrumentalist in the saz, the long-necked lute of the peasants and nomads of his country, he has assimilated each regional style in a permanent round trip between the earth and his own genius for melody. Talip Özkan thus elevated this regional music to the dignity of "classicism". • However in intimacy, Talip Özkan plays the tanbûr lute, instrument par excellence of the learned tradition which is based on the theory of makam (system based on an ascending or descending modal scale, presenting poles of attraction around which the melody evolves) . The performer integrates this system by studying the repertoire of each makam, gradually building up his distinctive style of unmeasured improvisation, taksim. • Talip Özkan offers in this disc an outline of his style of taksim, based on an intense listening of the voice and on the imitation with the tanbûr of the ornaments specific to the song, that it is classical or regional. As for his repertoire, he incorporates pieces from the rural or nomadic world into properly classical pieces, showing that there are, a priori, no contradictions between these two universes. • The tanbûr has 6 to 9 strings and its long handle carries 48 or 49 movable frets, played with a plectrum in tortoiseshell. We usually play on the chanterelle and the other strings resonate with sympathy, producing a harmonic halo - hence a perfect balance between expressiveness and interiority. It is this balance that Talip Özkan maintains in his taksim: to seek maximum expressiveness, to hold a permanent melodic tension, without ever losing the slow and deep breathing of the instrument. • The deep sustain of the tanbûr lute and Talip Özkan’s singing: contemplative music of the old masters (peşrev, semaı) and popular dance like the zeybek –attachment to the tradition and new paths of the makam.Talip Özkan (1939-2010), born in the Denizli region (south-west of Turkey), was a soloist, choirmaster at Turkish Radio-Television, pedagogue and field researcher. He came to France in 1976 and continued his research and teaching there. An exceptional instrumentalist in the saz, the long-necked lute of the peasants and nomads of his country, he has assimilated each regional style in a permanent round trip between the earth and his own genius for melody. Talip Özkan thus elevated this regional music to the dignity of "classicism". However in intimacy, Talip Özkan plays the tanbûr lute, instrument par excellence of the learned tradition which is based on the theory of makam (system based on an ascending or descending modal scale, presenting poles of attraction around which the melody evolves) . The performer integrates this system by studying the repertoire of each makam, gradually building up his distinctive style of unmeasured improvisation, taksim. Talip Özkan offers in this disc an outline of his style of taksim, based on an intense listening of the voice and on the imitation with the tanbûr of the ornaments specific to the song, that it is classical or regional. As for his repertoire, he incorporates pieces from the rural or nomadic world into properly classical pieces, showing that there are, a priori, no contradictions between these two universes. The tanbûr has 6 to 9 strings and its long handle carries 48 or 49 movable frets, played with a plectrum in tortoiseshell. We usually play on the chanterelle and the other strings resonate with sympathy, producing a harmonic halo - hence a perfect balance between expressiveness and interiority. It is this balance that Talip Özkan maintains in his taksim: to seek maximum expressiveness, to hold a permanent melodic tension, without ever losing the slow and deep breathing of the instrument. The deep sustain of the tanbûr lute and Talip Özkan’s singing: contemplative music of the old masters (peşrev, semaı) and popular dance like the zeybek –attachment to the tradition and new paths of the makam.

CD

World music

Ocora

03-06-2016

3149028089226