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Ulas Hazar

Title: Virtuoso

Label: Acoustic Music

Cat No:31914092
Format:CD

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• What Ulaz Hazar plays on the saz should be technically impossible - Ulas nevertheless plays it, and with a jaw-dropping lightness and ingenuity - as this stunning album testifies.

• What’s special about Ulas’s music is his individual mix of eastern and western music, a combination of traditional sounds from his homeland and flamenco, jazz and occidental classical music. On his album, traditional Turkish music shares natural space with music of Mozart, Chick Corea, flamenco pieces and transcriptions of fiendishly difficult Paganini caprices.

• Ulas Hazar, who was born in 1977 in Eastern Turkey and now lives in Southern Germany, grew up with the saz. His fiery play was kindled by a visit to a concert with Paco de Lucia, who still has an influence on his music to this day. Then he practiced like a madman for years.

• He is backed here by various musicians - ney, bass, percussion, drums, and Rafael Cortes on flamenco guitar. There is also a bonus video track, where one can enjoy watching Ulas Hazar’s amazing, virtuoso musicianship.

Track Listing for Virtuoso
1. Spain
2. Mekik
3. Caprice 16
4. Andaluz
5. Quiosko
6. Alla Turca
7. Nihavent Longa
8. Anatolia
9. Badinerie
10. Sultani Yegah Sirto

Reviews

Songlines - Bill Badley

He takes on everything from Turkish traditional music to Bach with great panache and the saz's shimmering metal strings have rarely sounded so enticing.

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