Album Notes

Breakneck improvisations and rhythms that bounce across the dance floor (New York Times, March 17, 2000)

youll be introduced to a passionate, utterly rocking music that careens from melancholy to joy in the space of a couple bars. (Tom Laskin, Isthmus, March 17, 2000 Madison WI)

When approaching world music, its best to avoid using terms like mesmerizing and beguiling. Too elitist, too cliched. Any yet no two words better convey the wiggy sonic meltdowns detonating throughout Turkish clarinet master Barbaros Erkoses Lingo Lingo, recorded in one day in 99. (NOW MARCH 23-29, 2000, Toronto)

Album Description
Highly regarded for his work with the famed Erkose Brothers, other Turkish musicians and musicians from around the world, clarinet virtuoso Barbaros Erkose is a celebrated master of Turkey's traditional fasil Roman (Gypsy) music. In this recording, the Barbaros Erkose Ensemble presents an array of Turkish light classical fasil and urban music in the driving and fluid improvisational style found among Roman urban musicians of Turkey. Tracks on this recording portray a captivating and exciting range of musical colors from the Turkish urban landscape.