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Fire Dance

by: Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Release Date October 01, 1999

His name is Omar Faruk Tekbilek, but you can call him Faruk. "Everyone does," says his longtime producer and collaborator, Brian Keane. Faruk has an unusual story, one in which Keane's Connecticut studio figures prominently.

Faruk's first international exposure was on Keane's 1988 album Süleyman the Magnificent (13023. A film was being made about the Ottoman emperor Süleyman to coincide with the opening of an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Brian Keane was hired to do the soundtrack. "I knew I wanted to incorporate Turkish instruments and players," he recalls, "but the Met saddled me with a bunch of professors--all intellect and no emotion." Desperate to move the recording along, Keane called Arif ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 2
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Beyond the Sky

by: Brian Keane, Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Release Date October 01, 1999
If you're like I am, you buy a lot of CDs on faith--you've never heard the music, but there's some reason to believe that it will be good (eg. a write-up; recommendations by others whose work you respect; common musicians to a work you like).

This was one of those CDs for me, and I couldn't be happier. This is the kind of listening experience that reaffirms and justifies risky (and expensive) ordering of CDs from overseas. This album, technically speaking, is an amalgam of middle eastern forms and instruments with top-flight keyboard playing and studio production. The latter no doubt reflects Keane's extensive soundtrack and production work for more "mainstream" fare. The former reflects an admirable musical inquisitiveness ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Suleyman the Magnificent

by: Brian Keane and Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Release Date October 01, 1999
If you're like I am, you buy a lot of CDs on faith--you've never heard the music, but there's some reason to believe that it will be good (eg. a write-up; recommendations by others whose work you respect; common musicians to a work you like).

This was one of those CDs for me, and I couldn't be happier. This is the kind of listening experience that reaffirms and justifies risky (and expensive) ordering of CDs from overseas. This album, technically speaking, is an amalgam of middle eastern forms and instruments with top-flight keyboard playing and studio production. The latter no doubt reflects Keane's extensive soundtrack and production work for more "mainstream" fare. The former reflects an admirable musical inquisitiveness ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 4
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Beyond the Sky [CASSETTE]

by: Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Release Date November 03, 1992
If you're like I am, you buy a lot of CDs on faith--you've never heard the music, but there's some reason to believe that it will be good (eg. a write-up; recommendations by others whose work you respect; common musicians to a work you like).

This was one of those CDs for me, and I couldn't be happier. This is the kind of listening experience that reaffirms and justifies risky (and expensive) ordering of CDs from overseas. This album, technically speaking, is an amalgam of middle eastern forms and instruments with top-flight keyboard playing and studio production. The latter no doubt reflects Keane's extensive soundtrack and production work for more "mainstream" fare. The former reflects an admirable musical inquisitiveness ... Read More: