HÜSEYIN ERTUNC SEXTET - A NEW WORLD (2LP)

"We consider ourselves extremely fortunate having met Hüseyin Ertunc during his terrestrial transit. After we reissued his wonderful album Musiki (privately released on Intex Sound in 1974) and a few collaborative albums with the Konstrukt collective, in 2017 we finally managed to invite him, Dogan Dogusel, Cem Tan and Umut Caglar to play some shows in Italy as a quartet. Things got really complicated when their visas got rejected - only one week before their plane was scheduled to take off - but then we found a stalwart supporter of free jazz music at the phone of the Italian Embassy and incredibly we got the visas in time so we could spend a whole week with Hüseyin and his band, touring Italy and playing four shows of the best spiritual free jazz we heard in a long while. Right after that, we took the chance to book a recording session at the good old Outside Inside Studio, where our loyal partner Matt Bordin captured on tape two days of improvisation by Hüseyin Ertunc (Fender Rhodes electric piano, Philicorda organ and chant), Umut Caglar (percussion and bamboo flutes), Dogan Dogusel (double bass), Cem Tan (drums), joined for this special occasion by the almighty Jooklo Duo: Virginia Genta (tenor and sopranino saxophones, clarinet, flutes), and David Vanzan (percussion). What came out of this is an incredible musical document, and not only for the fact that -unfortunately- it was Hüseyin's last session on this world." (label info)