ISTANBUL SESSIONS w/ Alp Ersönmez, Turgut Alp Bekoğlu, İzzet Kızıl- "Istanbul Underground", by Ilhan Ersahin, Istanbul Sessions

ISTANBUL SESSIONS w/ Alp Ersönmez, Turgut Alp Bekoğlu, İzzet Kızıl- "Istanbul Underground"

by Ilhan Ersahin, Istanbul Sessions

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1.	Falling 05:30	buy track
2.	Sarıyer 03:46	buy track
3.	The Calling 05:10	buy track
4.	Londres 04:46	buy track
5.	McCoy 05:43	buy track
6.	Senin İçin Geldim 03:27	buy track
7.	Sex Drugs and Jazz 03:09	buy track
8.	Studio 54 03:08	buy track
9.	Pra Gato 04:19	buy track
10.	1981 03:38	buy track
11.	Tarzanca 05:01	buy track

about

Confusion is good sometimes. It’s a way to start thinking about whatever
you are confused about. This is what Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions
have done since 2008. They have set fire to stages all across the world:
from New York to Istanbul, from Paris to Sao Paolo, from London to Skopje...
Their electrifying, genre-crossing performance pose questions: Is this
really jazz? Doesn’t this sound like a rock band? Where does their sound
come from?
Frontman Ilhan Ersahin is one of those rare moguls of the New York City
underground scene via his club and record label, Nublu, and he’s spread
his New York energy throughout the world. It’s possible to see him jamming with The Red Hot Chili Peppers in Sao Paolo, or featuring Bugge Wesseltoft in Blue Note Tokyo or playing a beautiful oriental set with Turkish gypsies in an elegant concert hall somewhere in Europe.
How about Istanbul Sessions then? It’s master-level musicianship meeting
high eclecticism where the cliché of “east-to-west crossover” finds its
true sense and power. A session is a meeting of a deliberative body to
conduct its business. In this case, the business is music, and the music
is another heavyweight offering from Ilhan and his crew. Above all, the
Istanbul Sessions can aptly be described as cinematic. Ersahin’s saxophone sounds like it could have been recorded in the Alps or in the sweeping sand dunes and oasis’s of the Middle East. On “Falling,” Ersahin’s tone is practically three-dimensional... double tracked and bathed in a healthy dose of reverb, the saxophone and rhythm of the band evoke a story-like narrative from the mad-man trills strewn throughout the track, to the soaring, almost stadium anthem chorus. Clearly, it’s all about the (s)axe, and Ilhan Ersahin is your axeman.
History has a tendency to repeat itself, and for the third time ‘round, East meets West once again with the results more satisfying than previously thought imaginable. Through Ersahin’s playing, you can hear the ghostly
echoes of those passed and a clear call to the future in his frenzy. You can also hear the siren’s call, the brooding beauty of the shrouded mystery that is the desert. Devilishly hot and bothered, the dry night air caresses your face, stirring a primal urge that excites as you step out into the glow of the Turkish metropolis. An Istanbul Session Awaits.

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released October 9, 2015

Ilhan Ersahin - tenor saxophone
Alp Ersönmez - bass
Turgut Alp Bekoğlu - drums
İzzet Kızıl - percussion

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In the most simple and direct terms, Ilhan Ersahin can be described as a saxophone instrumentalist, composer, music producer, club owner, jazz festival curator, and proprietor of his own record label. Broad as that may sound, it does little to explain who Ersahin truly is and what defines him as a musician. ... more

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