Omar Faruk Tekbilek - I Love You!

A masterpiece from the Album "One Truth" (1999). 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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[tungaizmir]

Ok i know him in personally cause am also music manager and been into scene. And never heard a thing about it even the sites says he is Turk . Of course he can inspire about in Egyptian music also like inspire from Mesopotamian , Middle Asia and Asia as well . Cause its esoteric based music . I am just saying that he doesnt have any Egyptian relation at his family side but other things are right what did you say

[tiad]

@all: OK, please read my infotext which I modified and supplemented slightly!

"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."

** TIAD **

[faroutdudes5]

I am so tired of the "all Arabs are...what? jihadists? Terrorists? Bad?

The Arabs kept knowledge alive during the Dark Ages. We use Arabic numerals in our mathematics...try doing calculus with Roman numerals! There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, many of them Arabs and there are only a few thousand terrorists. . So quit with the hate and the bigotry.

[Kiristall]

simdiye kadar duydugum en güzel melodi...hayranim buna ..

[EminPeci]

ich mag es sher cok güzel shum mir

[victor180284]

Que buen Video

[makaliv1002]

c'est une belle musique

[evcilpatiler]

Ellerine saglik "Ömer Faruk Tekbilek"...

[beatriz15272]

I love you too! (ai lov u2-´97)

[CanineHome]

When you point a finger at the moon, you should be looking at the moon not my finger... Why are we human always dig something out of nothing? Just get on with it! he is Turkish , Egyptian who cares!!! He is making beautiful music to inspire many in the world... What a good thing to be able to make a music like that, which will bring many different cultures, religions, races together and everyone will feel its theirs. It's something from them. Just loving him not cos i am from Turkey!!!

[halilibrahimaydin]

La ilahe illallah,

yaklaşıyor yaklaşmakta olan...

salatullah selamullah aleyke ya Resulallah

[andcbwk]

Very beautyfull

[Ulukayablnt]

Süper

[ShattockIan]

@eidotevil pleasure in some form which is why I do, which may sound rather distasteful but when you distance yourself from the perception that indulgence is "bad" you can see that everything that you do is to fulfill a desire and as such all the things that you and I would claim are the most beautiful characteristics of humanity are but a result of those desires.