Muharrem Aslan & Alister Spence
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Release Date: 26 February 2027
Label: Earshift Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9324690474240
Genres: Jazz World Music
Description
Anatolian baglama virtuoso and composer Muharrem Aslan joins Australian jazz pianist-composer Alister Spence for The Bridge of Eight Paths, a duo album that honours and extends musical traditions into a highly distinctive sound world. Featuring eight original compositions, the album moves between intricate Anatolian melodic motifs, jazz harmonies, rhythmic interplay and more abstract, textural explorations. Grounded in a spirit of curiosity and mutual respect, the music creates a distinctive shared language without losing track of the individual voices of its two musicians.
At the heart of the project is a fascinating musical challenge: bringing together the baglama's capacity for quarter-tone inflections and the piano's fixed equal temperament. Rather than treating this difference as an obstacle, Aslan and Spence use it as a starting point for new musical possibilities, exploring the tensions, overlaps and unexpected connections between their respective approaches to pitch, harmony and improvisation.
The Bridge of Eight Paths is a meeting of traditions that neither seeks to erase their differences nor remain confined by them. Through composition, improvisation and attentive musical exchange, Aslan and Spence create an intimate and adventurous dialogue between the resonances of Anatolian music and the expansive possibilities of contemporary jazz.
Muharrem Aslan: baglama
Alister Spence: piano
Tracklisting
The Vampires
Elysian Fields
Vazesh
Kristin Berardi
The Vampires
Trichotomy
Open Thread
Matthew Ottignon
Muharrem Aslan & Alister Spence
Wilson And His Combo
Various Artists
Arsenio Rodriguez
Dora Morelenbaum
Vincent Niclo
Ekaterina Shelehova
Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness
