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While familiar to Montrealers in his geo-techno DJ guise Arkin Alien, Mercan Dede calls Turkey -- or rather Turkey's called him home. His albums recorded as Dede (producer, composer and ney flute player) strive to harmonize his multi-culti modernism, his strong Turkish roots and his immersion in Sufism, the progressive, mystical strain of Islam. Dede's last album Nar ("fire") explored anger and agitation. Su ("water") instead suggests not exactly peace but placidity, a quietly haunted acceptance of time's inexorable flow forward. Recorded on the banks of the river Bosphorus -- tellingly, the meeting point of Europe and Asia -- Dede's downstream drift crosses the paths of violinist Hugh Marsh, Tamil chanteuse Susheela Raman and Turkish MC Ceza, among others.
-Rupert Bottenberg 05/05/05
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