BABA JAM BAND - "Kayada" (1993)
Acoustic Music Records 319.1036.2
KAZIM CALISGAN: saz - vocals - darbuka - talking drum - djembe
ANDREAS HEUSER: guitar - violin - oud - percussion
BIANCA SCHULZ: vocals - flute - djembe
MARTIN VERBORG: saxophone - violin- bassclarinet - percussion
FRANK OLLERTZ: keyboards - piano - congas - trumpet
STUART GRIMSHAW: bass
BETTINA HAGEMANN: bass
WALTER DEMTRÖDER: drums
photo Kayada cd cover
BABAJAM
 01 - Colours of Yemen, Part 1-4 - 15:11
02 - Tamzara - 8:00
03 - Yaylanin - 4:44
04 - Kida walla kida - 5:17
05 - Kayada - 5:18
06 - Cay Filizi - 4:25
07 - Oy Gelin - 13:41
08 - Tamara - 9:21
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Produced in 1992 / 93 and made possible by winning the „Deutscher Folk Förderpreis“ in 1992, the CD „Kayada“ presents itself with oriental themed music with an „art rock“ bias („Colours of Yemen“), grippingly beautiful ballads („Kayada“) and instrumentals full of playfulness („Tamzara“).
sound-samples: Colours of Yemen Kayada Cay Filizi
"KAYADA" REVIEWS (GERMAN) CD available at Acoustic Music
  BABAJAM - "Dost Kervani" (2000)
Acoustic Music Records 319.1203.2
KAZIM CALISGAN: saz - divan saz - cümbüs
- vocals - darbuka - talking drum - davul - req
ANDREAS HEUSER: guitar - violin - small percussion
BETTINA HAGEMANN: bass - violin - percussion
FRANK OLLERTZ: drums - piano - keyboards - trumpet
guests:
GILDA RAZANI: soprano saxophone
BERND JAKOB: bassclarinet
photo Dost Kervani cd cover
01 - Dost Kervani - 4:35
02 - On the Jump - 5:26
03 - Gafil - 7:45
04 - Across the Plain - 5:05
05 - Malatya - 6:37
06 - Balkanesque - 7:04
07 - Dostum - 7:20
08 - Ziplatma - 6:14
The follow up to their mostly jazz-rock influenced debut „Kayada“, „Dost Kervani“ is an altogether more mellow and accusticly orientated affair. Again they use instruments of oriental (saz, divan saz, cümbüs, darbuka, talking drum, davul, req) and western (guitar, violin, bass, saxophone, keyboards, trumpet, drums) origin plus vocals sung in turkish.
Besides balcan influenced music (Balkanesque“), original compositions featuring odd time signatures („Across the Plain“ / „On the Jump“) one finds arrangements of traditionals from Turkey („Dost Kervani“ / „Dostum“).
sound-samples: Dost Kervani Across the Plain Balkanesque
"DOST KERVANI" REVIEWS (GERMAN) CD available at Acoustic Music