Taksim Trio - Taksim Trio (2007) (@256)

There are some albums I liked very much recently and since it's been some time from my latest reference to recent releases, some of the posts to follow will be dedicated to them.
The first one is Richmond Fontaine's "We Used To Think The Freeway Sounded Like A River", an album that is the last dot in the music line that has been drawn from Neil Young, Springsteen, R.E.M. and the likes. Apart from the quality of the music, this album proves once more that Vlautin is among the best, if not the best, lyricist of his era.











Although there were many albums that could be used as a reference to Richmond Fontaine's album, I chose to upload an album which is some light years away from its sound, but amazingly their covers are based on the same concept.
Taksim Trio comprise of three Turkish virtuoso instrumentalists: Husnu Senlendirici on the clarinet, Ismail Tuncbilek on the baglama and Aytac Dogan on the quanun. The group decided to enter the studio after their triumphant appearance in Womex festival and this album, apart from its huge success in their homeland, entered the World Music Chart Europe. They offer a magical journey that travels us from their country's music tradition to... jazz and Latin through a number of amazing compositions that are based heavily on improvisations (or taksims...) and are presented with great subtlety and without excessive use of self-assertive pompous solos.

download link: here