- country:Türkiye
- style(s):Turkish, World
- label:Kalan Muzik Record Label
- type:Quartet
- gender:male
- instrumentation:instrumental, percussion, woodwind, singer songwriter
- artist posted by:Reyhan Yalhi Management
Line up
- Cem Ekmen (Duduk)
- Coskun Karademir (Kopuz, Baglama, Singer)
- Omer Arslan (Percussion)
- Ugurcan Sesler (Cello)
Links
Coşkun Karademir returns back to the innovative fusion style he created with eastern and western instruments in The Secret Ensemble, this time with a quartet. Timeless, ageless, borderless, without any separation of language, where the main focus is the music master’s narrative. In this album different pieces melted and transformed into a new understanding with the experience of visionary musicians.
The debut concert of the quartet is placed under the umbrella of “Vitrin” project of Istanbul Jazz Festival in June. Received very good reviews from the delegates and as selected as for Socar’s “Silkroad” travel support .
“..The showcase’s finest hour came on day four—back at the inauspicious Salon IKSV. The wonderful Coşkun Karademir Quartet blended Anatolian folk music and sufi mysticism into surpassing loveliness on bağlama (lute), dukun (flute), cello and drums. From the moment the quartet began and for the next 50 minutes, it was absolutely spellbinding—so intricately bound together that it’s impossible to say whether there was any improvisation”
Downbeat- Michael J. West
“..From a young age, Çoşkun Karademir became fascinated with the sound of the bağlama (otherwise known as the saz), the three-stringed lute that's emblematic of Turkish folk music. Today, through his many projects and collaborations, he is breathing life into the traditions of folk and spiritual Sufi music that he embraced ever since starting to play…Cello moved between lilting plucked-string riffs and rich bow-driven melodic lines, forming exquisite contrapuntal movements with the bağlama and … duduk (a traditional double-reed woodwind instrument found in parts of the Middle-East and Caucasus regions). To this Ömer Arslan added colour and rhythmic depth with his unconventional combination of drum kit and percussion instruments, resulting in a delicate, elegiac and utterly captivating music.”
All about Jazz- Luke Seabright
“..Coskun Karademir Quartet beguile with hushed interpretations of Anatolian folk tunes for saz, duduk flute cello and percussion- pristine constructions with a somewhat mystic timelessness that wouldn’t sound out of place on the ECM label.”
Jazzwise- Daniel Spicer.