Muammer Ketencoglu and the Zeybek Ensemble in Concert
Βοth faces of the Aegean
The expressive power of the accordion player Muammer Ketencoğlu springs not from his love for the instrument, nor from his impressive knowledge of music, nor even from the fact that he was born blind. It is a spiritual power of sorts, an intellectual passion that led him to explore human relationships by means of musical journeys. His Smyrnian roots sparked his love for music, and drove him to make use of the melodious sounds of Asia Minor held in common by Greeks, Turks, Armenians and Jews alike. The songs, melodies and rhythms of the Zeybeks, performed on the davul and the zurna, were the driving forces behind Ketencoğlu’s great musical journey set to the zeybek beat, which takes him from central Asia all the way to the Balkans. The zeybek songs he performs with his ensemble are not simply odes to the immediacy of the genre, nor simple reproductions of stock melodies, but are bold journeys that take us back through time and history.
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