Ziya Aytekin ~ Ziya [Sjelvar, 1994]

Ziya Aytekin, zurna - Ziya
Sjelvar SJECD 8, recorded 1993-94, CD released 1994

Ziya Aytekin is a Turkish musician, living in Sweden and with a large part of Northwestern Europe as his field of activity. A living legend among emigrants from the Near East in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France and other countries, Ziya is almost unknown to a wider audience.

Here Ziya presents his music - exactly as he wants it! He plays all instruments himself and he has also made most of them: the reed instruments zurna, mey and tulum; the flutes ney and kaval; the rythm instruments darbuka, davul, bongos, def, tamburin and zil. Also the tunes are Ziyas, either he composed them himself or picked them up along the long road that took him from his home town Savsat on the southern slopes of Caucasus, in Northeastern Turkey, via Trabzon and Istanbul, to Alby, Stockholm, Sweden.
Meet Ziya at his best; energic and powerful in rythmical dance tunes.

01. Üc ayak
02. Uzun hava
03. Düz horon
04. Sari gelin ve Desmalamin
05. Uzun hava ve Hirpani
06. Ermeni bari ve Sarmasi
07. Karsi belli
08. Mey ile uzun hava
09. Nevroz ve Sen nerdesin
10. Burasi mustur
11. Karsilama
12. Gürcü tulumu