Keklik Aile - Songs from the Kitchen

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Keklik Aile (Turkish for partridge family) transports the audience on a journey around the world, sampling the music and culture of places along the way. Feast on the exotic musical delights of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, with a taste of Caribbean and Asian spice thrown in. The chefs.....errrr......musicians serve up lashings of plucked oud, hot bagpipe, devilled darabukka and honey-glazed vocal guaranteed to stimulate the digestive juices!

Linda Marr, founding member of internationally acclaimed a cappella group Blindman's Holiday and pioneer exotic music group Nakisa, sings lead vocals and plays oud, guitar, frame drums and tapan. Linda also performs with Tokakros and The Far Seas. Yuri Halay is a sought-after specialist in Eastern European and Arabic music playing strings as well as wind instruments including oud, saz, domra, Bulgarian bagpipes, clarinet and shepherds flute. Soloist with the now defunct ensemble Drum Arabic, he performs with street theatre troupe Zaffa the Alchemist. Elias Ellis plays a variety of drums including darbuka, frame drums, djembe and congas. He has performed and recorded with Voices from the Vacant Lot, Toni Nation, Tiramisu, Brassov and Wak Attack and tours internationally with Stalker Theatre.

"Oriental melange..... The nearest thing I can relate this to is Turkish gypsy music......Indeed Yuri's serpentine clarinet explores the tastiest sound colours this side of Istanbul or even Thrace. With Linda's lovely vocals everywhere, soulful oud and various string instruments and Elias' solidly pulsing rhythmic groove both powerful and always appropriate, you can throw away all notions of reverse cultural cringe straight out the windows." - Cristina Veira, Diaspora World Beat, June 2002

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