Calisgan & Heuser info

CALISGAN & HEUSER - worldmusic oriental west

KAZIM CALISGAN
- turkish stringed instruments (saz -cura
- tambur - cümbüs)
- percussion (talking drum - darbuka
- bendir - davul) - vocals
ANDREAS HEUSER
- guitars (6-, 8- and 10-string acoustic
guitars - requinto - electric guitar)
- 5-string electric-violin - percussion

PRESS REVIEW (GERMAN)

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IN CONCERT

„...A tour d`horizon of a most beautiful kind, european polyphony and middle eastern homophony in an unheard of unity.“ was what the German Magazine „Akustik Gitarre“ said about „Asya“, the debut CD as a duo of Kazim Calisgan and Andreas Heuser. They play turkish instrumentals and imaginatively arranged turkish folk songs which reflect the influences of the middle east and the balcans. Kazim Calisgan`s middle eastern string and percussion instruments plus his heartfelt vocals are joined by Andreas Heuser`s guitars and violins. Their repertoire includes tender ballads, swinging musical dialogues and uplifting percussion tracks. They have been working together since 1988 initially as part of various band set-ups (E 5, Baba Jam Band, babajam), later as a duo. They have always tried to meet somewhere in the middle of East and West, joining their individual musical backgrounds.
"Both of these musical cosmopolitans have settled in the Ruhr Area and keep turning out their own brand of jazz/worldmusic crossover. It was a piece of luck that these two individualists have found each other and created a style full of respect to each others musical background without drifting off into some banal world music mish-mash. Their arrangements succeed in always sounding fresh and lightfooted; elegant and convincing because despite of the accomplishment of their crossover they both still stick to their roots.“
(Aylin Aykan, Türkischer Oktober, Munich 2001)

Kazim Çalisgan & Andreas Heuser also do workshops introducing the melodic scales and rhythms of Turkey and the Orient.

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