Tuesday, July 16, 2024

OKAY TEMIZ – Drummer Of Two Worlds (WEA, 1980)


Instrumental
International relevance: ***

Temporarily stepping away from the Oriental Wind brand, Okay Temiz teamed up with an all-Turkish line-up for ”Drummer Of Two Worlds”, including the excellent woodwind blower living in Sweden, Ziya Aytekin (check out his solo albums!). Sometimes labelled a jazz fusion albums, it's not the typical sexless stuff such a term suggests. It's still basically Turkish content within a jazzy frame as his previous albums, but more experimental and slightly more modern sounding. It's a particularly percussion heavy release, as proven by the title track, the frantic ”Ocean Roller” and the surprisingly spaced-out ”Repercussions”. While some tracks are excellent, I get the feeling that the more pronounced experimentation sometimes gets in the way of the substance of the music. It remains a good album, but it's more an item to complete your Temiz collection than one to begin building it with.

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