Sufi Music of Turkey

Kudsi Erguner | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Times Square Records
• ASIN: B00004W5MA
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,775 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #22 in Music > World Music > Middle East > Lebanon

Track Listings

1. Tales from the Ney

2. Semai

3. Zikr

4. Prelude of Ceremony

5. Voyager

6. Balade

7. Aksak Semai

8. Wordless Prayer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best ney recording!, January 18, 2001

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Paul Brandwein - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sufi Music of Turkey (Audio CD)

I don't know if this is the best, but this is a recording that just takes the top of my head off. The beautiful breathy tones of the ney seem to swirl around and around. There are pieces that are slow and almost seem to make time stop. The duets are subtle -the two neys seemlessly blending and complementing each other.I also enjoy the hypnotic and propulsive selections with the frame drum accompaniment. If you like quiet meditative music with great heart give this a listen.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful!, November 28, 2005

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Rizgar (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sufi Music of Turkey (Audio CD)

A beautiful and masterful album played by two leading ney masters. This album entres you into a pure world of contemplation and sufism with the humane sound of the ney, and with some of the most beautiful classical compositions for this instrument. Recommended for those who want to feel the magic and beautifulness of Middle Eastern sufi music!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sufi Music Kudsi Erguner, January 12, 2009

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Wj Meldrum "molly m" (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sufi Music of Turkey (Audio CD)

I wanted to hear more of Kudsi Erguner's playing of the ney flute after his appearance at Australia's Melbourne Arts Festival in October 2008. Although I hadn't heard him before, his playing of the ney has a quality which is both intense, yet somehow calming. My only previous brush with Sufism is confined to reading Rumi's poems, so I am don't claim to appreciate the musical origins or basis within Sufi mysticism in either this type of poetry or music. That said, the CD was a very enjoyable introduction to melodies and rhythms from a musical tradition which it seems is deserving of greater attention by Western audiences.