Okay Temiz

   
Artist: Okay Temiz

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Discography:


   
 Zurma Project

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Tracks: 12

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Born in Istanbul in 1939, Okay Temiz was influenced early by his mother, Naciye, world Health Organization was classically schooled in medicine. Playing professionally since 1955, Temiz studied at the Ankara Conservatory and at the Tophane Art Institute to hear to build his own unique instruments. After meeting Maffy Falay and Don Cherry, he settled in Sweden; with Cherry and bassist Johnny Dyani he toured the U.S. and Europe (Alive in Ankara, Sonet 1971). The radical Xaba, with Dyani and trumpeter swan Mongezi Feza, was founded in 1972 (Jubilate, Cadillac 1972; Music for Xaba, Sonet 1972; Music for Xaba 2, Sonet 1979).


In 1974, Temiz created his have Oriental Wind, wide victimisation Turkish instruments such as michel Ney and gayda (played by Haci Tekbilek), zurna, kaval, ud, saz, and sipsi. For some performances, his mother united the grouping. He always featured Turkish musicians in orderliness to help them acquire international realization, and kept strong ties with his motherland; his all-star CD Zikir (Adenosine deaminase 1981) features the expectant ney thespian Aka Gündüz, pianist Tuna Otenel, and tip bassist/arranger Onno Tunc, while Karsilama (Adenosine deaminase) is a canonised, exciting version of the percussion/zurna music concomitant hymeneals parties in Western Turkey. In 1991 and 1992, he released Fis Fis Tziganes (Label La Lichere) with a radical of romany musicians from Istanbul, and Green Wave (Uzelli); in 1993, with his Magnetic Band (ANO Kato, 1995), he added South African rhythms to his palette.


After living for nearly 30 geezerhood abroad, the new, more clear cultural clime and the crop of jr. musicians coming up motivated him to return to Turkey in 1998. He has a selfsame intense agenda of instruction and acting there, oftentimes guesting in the virtually prestigious orchestras or creating his possess projects that feature his invented instruments, like the hand-crafted copper drums, the Magic Pyramid, and Artemiz made with camel and sheep bells.





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