Senem Diyici - Nara '2022

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Senem Diyici has a long career making music, having started recording her songs
in 1969, before going on to develop a style of crossing boundaries between
traditional Turkish music, jazz and rock. With her new release Nara, however,
she breaks a ten-year absence from the recording studio.

The title-track starts off beautifully, with a lush string arrangement by Ersin
Ersavas and the varied timbres of guitar, oud and trumpet. The style is less
overtly jazz than previous albums such as Takalar, that had the plentiful
improvisation and vivid sense of spontaneous interplay that the best jazz has.
Nevertheless, first impressions are of a warm and sophisticated fusion of
Turkish and ‘Western’ styles.

The songs on Nara (meaning a fire or cry) speak about female self-realisation
and our interactions with the natural world. With a variety of percussive
styles, they nevertheless struggle to break out from a constant, pedestrian
pace, only picking up slightly on the final track. Diyici's voice also lacks
variety and expressiveness, maintaining a rather shrill falsetto throughout the
11 songs. It's a great shame for an album that begins with such promise.



Tracklist:
1.01 - Senem Diyici - Nara (4:21)
1.02 - Senem Diyici - Deniz Deniz (5:16)
1.03 - Senem Diyici - Bir Tuhafl?k Oluyor Bana (5:15)
1.04 - Senem Diyici - Ellerine (5:08)
1.05 - Senem Diyici - Neg??re Caw R?ndam?n (4:16)
1.06 - Senem Diyici - Bahar Vakti (5:25)
1.07 - Senem Diyici - Gonlum Sana Kustum (5:51)
1.08 - Senem Diyici - Karaburun'da Dolunay (4:21)
1.09 - Senem Diyici - Ruhun Dans? (4:08)
1.10 - Senem Diyici - Olmaya Geldim (4:58)
1.11 - Senem Diyici - Guldur Guldur (3:51)

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