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Şehnaz Y​ü​r​ü​k Sem​â​î

from P​î​rî Reis by Kairos Collective / Michiel van der Meulen

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ŞEHNAZ YÜRÜK SEMÂÎ

This piece was written overnight, in bed, in the small village of Agios Vasileios, where I spent a weeks to attend a modal composition seminar. Şehnaz is a beautiful compound makam with several in-built modulations that somehow remind me of a particular type of Dutch weather: windy, partially cloudy, with alternations of sunshine and rain. It is this type of weather that I’ll start missing when I am in the South and have clear blue skies for weeks in a row (…much to the amazement of the locals and my wife).

This opening piece was also the first composition that the group tried during the first reherasal session. I was a bit nervous, which is quite an unusual state for me to be in. I had somehow managed to get a group of accomplished musicians together to play my compositions, the products of a novice in contemporary modal music. I didn’t know Harris Lambrakis and Manolis Kanakanis personally at that time. I knew their music and reputation and considered them way above my leage. I wasn’t sure how the pieces would turn out, or whether the musicians liked the music at all. But after only a couple of seconds, just one or two bars into this piece, I knew. We were going to be fine.

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from P​î​rî Reis, released February 10, 2017
Musicians: Harris Lambrakis (ney), Giorgos Papaioannou (violin), Manolis Kanakakis (kanun), Yorgos Mavromanolakis (oud), Marijia Katsouna (tombak) | Composition: Michiel van der Meulen | Makam: Şehnaz | Usul: yürük semâî (6/8, 3-3)

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Kairos Collective Utrecht, Netherlands

Kairos Collective is the occasional ensemble that Michiel van der Meulen assembles to record or perform his contemporary modal music. Kairos is the personification of the right moment, the time to act or an opportunity to be seized, perfectly encapsulating the spirit and atmosphere of the collective's sessions. ... more

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