The New Oriental Dream

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Turkish Classical Music is a highly stylized hybrid of forms from across the Ottoman empire when it stretched from eastern Europe through Arabia. Against the barrage of cheap and popular forms like arabesque and Turkish pop, the genre has bound itself tight in formalized rules and restrictions.

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About

Burhan Ocal's New Dream transports the listener within this ivory tower. It is not about stealing from Turkish Classical Music, but bringing it new wealth, of breaking the bindings of its strict rules and allowing the music to breathe again with new life. The rich textures and sumptuous string melodies again become the height of luxury, as they were in the Ottoman Court when it ruled half the world. Resembling nothing so much as a rich Turkish dessert drizzled in sugar syrup at the end of a fine meal with friends, or silk sheets and a four-poster bed with a lover, New Dream is a rare sensual treat. Burhan Ocal is a master percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and specialist in bringing new perspectives to traditional genres. Violin player Vokan Gumuslu also adds new compositions, much-loved Turkish Classical Music legend Emel Sayin sings on three tracks, including Amir Ates' ballad of eternal love 'Ben Seni Unutmak Icin Sevmedim' which she

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Tracks

Track	Title	English	Duration
1	Boğaziçi	Bosphorus	07:18
2	Yeni Şark Rüyası	The New Oriental Dream	05:53
3	Çile Bülbülüm	My Long Suffering Nightingale	03:10
4	Şeyh’in Rüyası	The Sheikh’s Dream	05:54
5	Ben Ağlarken	While I Cry	04:01
6	Beklenen Resim	The Awaited Picture	05:46
7	Ben Seni Unutmak İçin Sevmedim	I Didn’t Love You Just To Forget You	03:55
8	Büyülü Dans	The Enchanted Dance	07:56