The recording of Kani Karaca on this album, Elif, was his penultimate performance and final recording before he passed away four months later.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Michael Ellison, an Istanbul-based American composer, blends diverse influences, including Turkish and Black Sea motifs, into his dramatic and effervescent personal style.
Performer Biography
Kani Karaca, a blind hafız and master of Turkish Music in the Twentieth-Century, could recite the entire Qu'ran from memory.
Composer Biography
Michael Ellison's field research in the classical and folk music of Turkey, facilitated by the Fulbright Foundation and ARIT, continues to inform much of his current output.
Compositional Technique
In the piece Elif, the voice of Kani Karaca is placed at the center of an atmospheric ensemble-halo, metaphorically reflecting the tenuous position of his tradition in the contemporary world.
Composer Biography
Since 2002, Michael Ellison has been on the faculty of MIAM Center for Advanced Studies in Music at Istanbul Technical University.
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