Tuesday, November 6, 2012

TURKEY: Anatolian philosophers' doctrines converted into music

"In The Rumi Project, a group of Turkish musicians combine the doctrines of Jalaladdin Rumi, Shams Tabrizi, Yunus Emre and Hacı Bektaş Veli with ethnic, fusion, spiritual jazz and classical Turkish music instruments

Helding the philosophy of some of Anatolia’s most beloved mystics with more modern sounds including jazz and classical Turkish music, the Rumi Project is a new musical group set for a series of concerts that will be multilingual in addition to bending genres.

The aim of the band is to combine the philosophy of Rumi with ethnic sounds, having brought together six Turkish and two English poems of Rumi with ethnic jazz music in a spiritual musical show." Hürriyet Daily News