Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Magic Of The Evening!

A masterpiece from the Album "Mystical Garden" (1996). Listen & Enjoy it.

Omar Faruk Tekbilek had been studying Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, with the thought of becoming a Sufi cleric. At 15, he quit school to become a professional musician. "But I never quit studying, though," he maintains. "In fact, I am still studying; it's endless. Music for me is not something to show off. It's my life. It's the shortest path to God. Playing is prayer for me." He went to Istanbul and at the age of 17 met the Mevlevi Dervishes, the ancient Sufi order of Turkey. He did not join the order, but felt profoundly influenced by their mystical approach to sound and to the spirit. Another, almost equally mystical influence would soon appear, from an unlikely source. The young Tekbilek became friend with flute and saxophone player named Ismet Siral, who had some unusual ideas about music theory. "He would say things like, let's play for birds, let's play for pictures." OFT says about Burhan Tonguch, his rhythm teacher: "He put the idea in my mind that everything is a rhythmic instrument. And everyone is a percussionist. Without the strike, there is no sound."

Despite, or perhaps because of, this unconventional outlook, Faruk's skills were much in demand in the studios of Istanbul, and in 1971, at the age of 20, made his first brief tour of the United States with a Turkish classical/folk ensemble. The Tree of Patience was about to put out an unexpected limb. "I try to play a song the way it's supposed to be," Faruk explains. "If I play an Arabic song, I use an Arabic style; if I play a Turkish song, I use a Turkish style."

Faruk feels a strong affinity for Arabic music, which differs in several important ways from the Turkish tradition. As a child he spent a lot of time listening to Radio Kairo and became acquainted with the giant musicians of that time like Umm Kulthum, Abdul Wahab, Abdl Halim Hafez, Farid al-Atraš, Fairuz, Sabah Fakhri. Because he was playing the flute he was inspired by the melodies and the sound of ney (nay). He was also inspired by Sheikh Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad recitations of the holy Qur'an whom his father was listening a lot.

Faruk pauses, considers, and then admits, "Sometimes I can't keep myself from making a bridge between them. I just try to listen to the song; it will tell me what it wants to be." The process of creating his own songs is similar: "There is no set formula or method", he says. "Each song comes out in a different way."

Btw: The grandfather of Faruk's mother is originated from Egypt, so if you want Faruk is "Egyptian in 3rd generation". But much more he is Turkish. ;-)

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[OKNZMN]

faruk tekbilek is turkish but why omar ?

is he half turk half arab ;D ?

[tiad]

@OKNZMN: Hi, read my info text: "..(Faruk is half Egyptian himself, and feels a strong affinity for Arabic music, which differs in several important ways from the Turkish tradition).."

[tiad]

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[tiad]

A masterpiece from the Album "Mystical Garden" (1996). Listen & Enjoy it.

[marinaaleksova]

Masterpiece....

hello from Macedonia

[stefst2]

@stefst2 Sorry...civilization, not civilazation

[stefst2]

@heraklea81 Dear Heraklea...Be sure that i enjoy the music. You probably know that you use a Greek name. Heraklea. If you are not greek, i am happy you honor greek history and civilazation.

[ichbindrme]

Remarkable.

[heraklea81]

@stefst2 shut up and enjoy the music!!!

[marinaaleksova]

@stefst2  If you want to discuss about history or politics go to some special institution , Im here, like all the others to listen and enjoy in the music

[stefst2]

@marinaaleksova You mean Hello from western Bulgaria...Because Macedonia, the land of Philippos II, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Kassandros, Olympiada, Thessaloniki, Kyrillos and Methodios etc is North Greece. I am Macedonian and i know that my ancestors from the antiquity till now, spoke and speak the Greek language. And if you have any doubt, go to your archaeological museum and show us an inscription written in a language other than the Greek one.

[cesisful]

@OKNZMN omar is turkish name as well

[oLonelySpirit]

@Dhuwayhi123ALsubaie You made me think of the same and cry too. sometimes u wish those people who you love never go away or dies..

[oLonelySpirit]

Doesnt matter where he come from or where his name come from, just listen to what this person created..

[AndyMKordo]

@aszkanfederation28 Arabic is a Semitic language, that's why it is like Hebrew. But it's not like Persian. Persian adopted thousands of words from Arabic, so now Persian is almost a dialect of Arabic because of the huge number of Arabic words. And the Arabic culture is extremely different from the Persian culture.