Alain Blesing, click on the image for his web site.
Crossed route, that’s what fits Alain Blesing the most. From 1975 to 1982, he’s part of the progressive French rock movement principally playing in the bands Eskaton, Foehn and Arsenal, while on the other hand he’s studying music in Paris VIII (master in 1981) and a music theory training course. Between 1981 and 1985, the discovery of jazz with Jef Gilson is opening a little more his musical language, since then he begins to play with jazz musicians (Roger Guérin, Sylvain Beuf, Hal Singer, John Hendelsman, Stephane Persianni…). In 1987, he meets Senem Diyici whom he learns how to appreciate the traditional music universe, and to who he will for the first time write a new repertory (Takalar, La Lichère label, 1989). Since then, he recorded something like twenty albums written by him, he plays and composes with several different artists like Senem Diyici, Lenhart Aberg, Okay Temiz, Didier Levallet, Kamao Dahoud, Ivo Papazov, Yves Rousseau, Claude Barthelemy, François Thuillier, Eric Marchand, Denis Badaud, Philippe Deschepper or Jean-Marie Machado… Member of the Senem Diyici Quartet since 1991, he’s coming back in 2003 with a little more eclectic colors and builds up the trio Three Side Theoryalong with Yves Rousseau (double-bass) and Christophe Marguet (drums).
For the song Hitite Sun and the album: " A fictitious South, a melting pot of all types of music, where a musician from northern Europe has rediscovered his roots. A way of advocating a certain sort of musical ecumenism, an attempt at recovering, behind music and its wide range of codes, the universal qualities that bring them forth. A music to dream on, in which structures and tones of Mediterranean tradition are sometimes buried, sometimes erupting, like the stone pillar of Cappadocia slowly unveiled by the desert wind. An opportunity to render homage to the forerunner of music evocating travel: Bela Bartok..." OFFICIAL WEB SITE: http://www.alainblesing.com/ http://www.myspace.com/alainblesing/music/songs?filter=popular
Ozan Musluoğlu Song: You Must Forget Sometimes
Ozan Musluoglu, click on the image for his web site
Ozan was born in Germany in 1977 and started playing bass guitar at the age of 16. In 2000, he won a full scholarship to the Bilgi University Music Department; and in 2001, he started his studies with Volkan Hürsever, James Lewis and Kürşat And.He has since then shared the stage with Kerem Görsev, Vanessa Rubin, Danny Grissett, Dena Derose, Allan Harris, Hilary Kole, Gary Dial, Tuna Ötenel, İmer Demirer, Ilhan Ersahin, Donovan Mixon, Onder Focan, Erkan Oğur and Neşet Ruacan. He has done workshops with very well-known bassists as Marc Johnson, David Friesen, Dominique Lemerie and Robert Balzar. He had the opportunity to play with some musicians like Marcus Miller, Roy Hargrove, Mike Stern, Willy Jones, Eric Reed, Erik Smith, Katy Roberts, Bebel Gilberto, Ilhan Ersahin, Leslie Harrison, EJ Strickland, George Colligan and Bernard Maury in various jam sessions and club dates. Also, as bassist of the group Athena from 2003-2007, he recorded albums and toured nationally and internationally, including representing Turkey in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest where they placed 4th. In January 2009, Ozan Musluoğlu enthusiastically released his first album under the Recbyjazz label in February 2009. On the same year Ozan finished recording his 2nd album consists of his original compositions . The musicians in this album which has been released under Equinox Music Label in 2011 May are: Jeremy Pelt, voted rising star on the trumpet 5 years in a row by Downbeat magazine; JD Allen on tenor saxophone, Danny Grissett on piano and Darrell Green on drums. Currently, Ozan Musluoğlu is the bass player for the TRT jazz orchestra lead by one of the most respected musicians in Turkey ,Neşet Ruacan. At the same time he produces and presents the weekly jazz radio program titled “Caz Saati” on the national radio TRT on every Monday at 11 pm.