| Dede, Mercan / Nefes |
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| Album: | Nefes | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Dede, Mercan | Added: | 10/2006 | |
| Label: | Doublemoon | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-11-26 | Pull Date: | 2007-01-28 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | 28 Jan | 21 Jan | 24 Dec | 17 Dec | 3 Dec |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 11, 2010: | Music Casserole Halitus | 4. | Dec 19, 2006: | New World Disorder Huxi | |
| 2. | Jan 27, 2007: | New World DIsorder Huo | 5. | Dec 14, 2006: | beat.net chapter 55.0: cognitive underload Dem | |
| 3. | Jan 20, 2007: | New World Disorder Napas | 6. | Dec 12, 2006: | New World Disorder Huxi |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2006-11-02 | ||
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Dede, Mercan – Nefes (Doublemoon) Reviewed by Sadie O., 11/2/06 Fusion of traditional Turkish instrumentation and electronica. Should appeal to a spectrum of interests from World to Dance/electronic to experimental. Although now living in Canada, Dede is extremely popular in Turkey. Guided by Sufism, he is consciously trying to create a global connection and awareness through music. It’s beautiful stuff and rewards a good listen, but you’re gonna have to be relaxed to get into it. All sounds fairly similar, so start anywhere. Few vocals, no FCCs. Most tracks end just a few seconds shy. FOUR STARS ON EVERYTHING, although I most like tracks 5, 7, 10, 12, 14 1. 5:22 faint ethereal noises for a few seconds, then solo violin, other instruments added, slow mysterious groove starts a minute in. Some lyric-less vocals. Some of it is like an Indian raga combined with dance/trance. 2. 5:12 slow, lovely female vocals, handdrums and instruments that float around exotically. Everything builds throughout the song. 3. 5:09 handdrums, ney (horn) and whispers, downbeat and either a bit melancholy or meditational. Music winds down and you can hear a heartbeat… 4. 4:07 trance-y and beatless, ney, echos and drones. Midtempo handdrums after a minute and a half, then there’s a lovely traditional-based tune. 5. 3:55 big random drumbeats and bits of traditional instruments, then drums quit and there’s a slow bass-driven shuffle with lots of interesting sounds going on. Oooh, the big drums are back! 6. 3:50 random sounds, including a variety of vocals including male singing that sounds like Islamic call to prayer. Very slow, no beat, trance-y. 7. 4:23 cool somewhat uptempo beat, whispers, slithery but you can dance to it! 8. 5:04 odd bits of vocals, drones, flutes. Slow beat starts 2 minutes in, stops about 45 seconds from end. 9. 3:01 waves and tweets and random instruments, beat builds out of bits. Some human beat box, of sorts, actual beat around 1:30 along. 10. 4:53 midtempo, rather funky beat, lots of electronics as well as trad instruments. Pretty. Nice energy, hand drums. 11. 3:58 harp sounds, slow Arabesque groove starts about a minute in. Where’s my hookah? 12. 4:51 ney and drones, floating through the minarets, fun electronic beat starts a minute and a half in, very cool sound, very relaxed. 13. 4:35 electronic vocals in undecipherable English, nice midtempo groove 1 minute in. Male singing in Turkish, very traditional. 14. 6:27 bowed instrument and drone, building to extremely slow but fun exotic groove with layers of interesting sounds, female vocals. Seductively scary. 15. 8:53 heartbeat, breathing and drones, then ney, other instruments gradually build, then fade to breathing and heartbeat. Ends at 4:46 remaining, starts a new song at 3:47 remaining with some street noises and ney, some flutes, no beat. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Hininga | 8. | Engewal | |||
| 2. | Dem | 9. | Breath | |||
| 3. | Ginhawa | 10. | Huxi | |||
| 4. | Samana | 11. | Halitus | |||
| 5. | Huo | 12. | Souffle | |||
| 6. | Zefir | 13. | Atman | |||
| 7. | Napas | 14. | Behin | |||
| 15. | Moya Alitu | |||||