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1-''Mustafa Özkent Gençlik ile elele''
2-''Mustafa Özkent dijital gitar''
3-''Mustafa Özkent dijital piano''
4-''Mustafa Özkent folk gitar 7''
Turkish composer, arranger, guitar player and producer Mustafa Özkent was a lesser-known but significant figure on the Ankara music scene until his music belatedly found a receptive audience in the West more than four decades into his career.
Özkent launched his career as a professional musician in Radio Ankara.A talented guitarist who was known to modify the design of his instruments to create unusual tonal qualities,
Özkent earned a reputation as a gifted maverick and by the dawn of the 1970s was in Istanbul demand as a session player, arranger, and producer, creating music that fused psychedelic and pop/rock influences with R&B grooves and jazz-influenced improvisations.
In 1973, Özkent partnered with Evren Records, a Turkish label known for its high production standards and audiophile recording techniques; Özkent booked time at one of Istanbul's finest recording facilities, and with a hand-picked team of musicians he began recording new material dominated by funky vamps, extended percussion jams, hard-grooving organ lines, and wah-wah guitars.
The resultant LP, Gençlik ile Elele (Hand in Hand with Youth), sounded as if it were designed for hip-hop DJs in search of funky breaks, even though it was cut years before the nascent South Bronx scene began to flower (not to mention half a world away).
In 2006, the musically omnivorous record collectors at the British Finders Keepers label reissued Özkent's masterpiece, and it earned rave reviews in the U.K. as well as the United States. Meanwhile,
Özkent (who helped Finders Keepers with the reissue of 'Gençlik ile Elele' Özkent remains active in Turkey, releasing the album Dijital Guitar in 2005 and Dijital Piano in 2006.(MARK DEMING)
After what seems like a decade of cross continental detective work and buffonery ,Finders Keepers Records finally have the auspicious privilege to introduce the incredible music of Anadolu pop's very own Dr.Frankestein Maestro Mustafa Özkent.
Regarded amongst hardened collectors of Anatolian rock as THE DADDY of all Turkish rarities,this record simply has to be heard to be believed and even then it's still literally UNBELIEVABLE.Is this record for real? Either this guys had time-machines or DJ Kool Herc had secret Eastern connections.
If a box of original copies of this seldom-sighted album had made it's way to the South Bronx in the late seventies then Mustafa Özkent woulld be shearing throne space with other ultimate breaks and beats such as Michael Winers 'Incredible bongo band',Funky Drummer and Johny the Fox bringing modern record collectors new found Turkish obsession forward by some 20 years.(ANDY VOTEL)
In the early 1970s,Mustafa Özkent put together a group of off-kilter musicians and stylized fuzzy production to create the best American funk record never made.
This lost gem is everything break seekers look for in a record:extend jams,inventive percussion,and no silly vocals to get in the way.
It's rare to hear a record this funky coming from outside the west,but Özkent proves that deep-fried keyboard and guitar licks are just as friendly to near east traditions.(DAILY OM)
According to the blurb in the liner booklet,vinyl copies of this 1973 album are rarer than rare.
They're rarer than hen's teeth,rarer than screaming mandrake roots,so rare that they cost over 600 dollars each and %90 of the original pressing was eaten by wolves,ladies and gentlemen, ,wolves and as for the completely irrelevant chimpanzee wrapping itself in loops of the tape on the front,well,no Finders Keepers does'nt understand it either.
Özkent was a nationalist,but he blends his Turkish folk influences so perfectly in to the modernity of the psyche-jazz-funk that you might not even notice them unless you knew what you were listening for. (POP MATTERS)
If You're an aficionado of Anotolian folk music and where equally thrilled by the recent appearance on CD of Mustafa Özkent's ''Gençlik ile elele''(Caspar Lewellyn Smith-OBSERVER)
This Turkish album first came out in 1973.The zany cover art (a monkey messing around with a reel to reel tape recorder)suggest this is a lighthearted endeavour,but the album contains some serious funk that hold its own against the relentless grooves of American funk gods like the meters.
Despite this release being so funky,this dededly western-sounding record never strays too far from Mustafa Özkent's Anatolian musical heritage.(E MAN GROOVING)
Mustafa Özkent studied music in Brussels Academie Musique D'Ixelles.He played and arranged for Radio Istanbul Jazz band.He added extra frets to his special guitar to play traditional tunes.
He made concerts and TV shows in USA,Canada,France, Russia,Germany,Holland,Belgium.He has 15 instrumental CD and LP.Over 100 songs,300 hundred productions and 3000 arragements.
He wrote a Harmony book for modal,traditional scales (ÖNCÜ MÜZİK)
Mustafa Özkent (Gençlik ile elele).The song titles are in Turkish,and Mustafa Özkent has had a long career as a Turkish studio musician.
Yet except for an ocassional belly-dance-tune phrase on his electric guitar,the music on this instrumental album,originally released in 1973,could have been a forgotten spy-mowie sound track.
Conga drums,electric organ,scrubbing rhythm guitare ,funk bass lines,wah-wah-pedaled leads.
Who says world music has to be exotic?(NEW YORK TIMES)
Gençlik ile elele story is strange as Andy Votel relates in the liner notes ,Özkent was ''an expert in both carpentry in electronics.
This along with Özkent's adherence to traditional Turkish sounds,led to a new guitar which Özkent treated so with ''additional frets enabling him to replicate unique notes similar to that of a saz or the lute''.
THe result is what can best be described as an Eastern European Incredible Bongo Band.(STYLUS MAGAZINE)
Far mor playable the instrumentals on Özkent's ''Genclik ile elele''adorned with a tape-strewn,suit-jacketed chimpanzee on the cover,comprise a seriously oddball and impossibly dope roll of session-man grooves which stand up to the best library music in the 70s had to offer.
Rooted in native melodies put playing to a world audience,Özkent offers up an unstoppable collection of drum breaks,organ riffs,in the pocket bass and mental,acid-soaked guitar leads .
This rarest of This Turkish platter is currently in the place you'd least expect.(DOUG MOSUROCK)
Mustafa Özkent is an old prolific Turkish musician,still making records today,but long forgotten and swept over in the west.In 1973 he released a churming album of funky instrumental pop and jazz numbers called 'Genclik ile elele',that when unearthed from obscurity,probably made the musical archeologists over at the Finders Keepers label cream It's that kind of album,one that endlessly plods along,riding some kind of uniwersal groove that crosses boundaries and borders just to get you moving.(KEITH KAWAI-TINY MIX TAPES)
FRANÇAIS
Mustafa Özkent est un musician Turc qui a commencé sa carriére en 1960 alors qu'il faisait parti a Ankara d'un group nommé THE TEENAGERS.
Il semble avoir acquis une certaine renommeé ,puisqu'il devint un musician de studio recherché,et une certaine compétence,puisqu'on lui reconnaissait des talents d'arrangeur.
Un label indpendant,Evren Records,lui confia la réalisation de cet album instrumental ou il expérimenta les effect de la stéréophonie.
A cet effet, je rapelle aux lecteurs qui ne connaitraient pas la scéne musicale turque des années soixante et soixante dix qu'un décalage de trois a quatre annes était alors la régle entre ce pays et la scne occidental;c'est ainsi que le style psychdélique perdura bien plus longtemps en Turquie qu'il ne le fit en Europe.
Seul,le nom d'Özkent apparait sur la pochette assez kitch de ce disque.Pourtant,la lecture du livret,issu de la réédiction du label britannique Finders Keepers,m'a permis d'y trouver les noms de ses compagnons.
La tradiction du tire voudrait dire ''Main dans la main avec la jeunesse,a l'instar d'une attitude trés pudique de la musique vis-a vis de son auditoire et encore trés soumise au pouvoir en place.
Pourtant,cet album est L'une des timides tentatives de bouleversement du conformisme ambiant.L'influence occidentale pousse alors les jeunes a revendiquer plus de liberté et la musique leur sert de catalyseur ou ils peuvent s'exprimer,sans craindre une répression trop brutale de la part des autorits.Le décor étant planté,que vaut donc cet enrgistrement?
Si vous vous attendez a un disque de musique tradionelle,quelque peu modernisée avec le recours aux instruments électrifiés,vous faites fausse route;on peut lire sur la couverture les mots suivant:''folk, rhythm'n seul,blues'n jazz,rock'n pop''c'est effectivement un formidablé mélange de tous ces genres qui est ici réalisé par Özkent,le tout étant méle a des mélodies Anatoliens;il est donc difficile de départager tel ou tel morceau puisqu'ils s'enchainent les uns aux autres pour un plaisir toujours renouvelé ou,ici,L'orgue est funky a mort,la,la basse claque a fond et ailleurs,les guitares sont orientalistes en diable;
le disque est une lui-méme trés court,30 mn,mais il n'y régne aucun temps mort,au contraire,l'invite a remuer du croupion est constamment trés explicite;je ne chercherai donc pas a départager ce bau gateau et vous incite a acquérir de toute urgence cet album qui devrait étre rejoint par de petits fréres,si I'on en croit le livret qui s'achve sur ces lignes ''the Anatolian invasion continues''. (CHRONIQUES DE THIERRY)
DEUTSCH
Ich kann nicht leugnen.das ich''Incredible strange music''sehr reizvoll finde,wenn die dann noch funky ist,umdo besser.Zum Breakbeat Potenzial in der Turkischen
Pop musik der 60er und 70er hatte ich früher schon mal einen ''Eintracht gemacht'',die Platte ''GENCLIK ILE ELELE''von Mustafa Özkent aus dem jahre 1973 scheint ein echter Klassiker zu sein-sehr gut,incredible strange sounds sehr rar,aber glücklicherweise auch als Reissue erhaltlich.
Und natürlich ein Cover design,das wirklich SCHLECHT ist (passt natürlich auch schön zum FUNKY NEANDERTALER,aber wegen der Haufung von Primaten mache mir auch schon Gedanken,zudem gerade in der ganzen Stadt Plakate von ''Planet der affen''hangen)(SOULKOMBINAT)
ESPANOL
Deespués de una décade de espionaje por toda Europa,Finders keepers finalmente tiene el priviligeo de presentaries la increible coleccion musical popular de Anatolia(Turquia) deel mismo Mustafa Özkent.
Considerado por los coleccionistas de rock de Anatolia como el PADRE de todos las rarezas turcas,este disco debe ser escuchado para podérselo creer e incluso asi séra INCREIBLE Séra este dsco verdadero?
O sera que estos chicos tendrian maquinas del tiempo o el DJ Kool Herc tiene conexiones secrates en el este .Di una caja de jas copias originales de este album (rara vaz visto) huberia ilegado al sur del Bronx en los finales de los setenta Mustafa Özkent estuviera compartiendo el trono con Michael Winers de 'Incredible Bongo Band',Funky Drummer y Johny The Fox y se hubiese adelantando en unos 20 anos la obsesion de los coleccionistas por la musica de Turquia.
En 1973 el album que contenia 10 temas fue lanzado en Turquia con el titulo ''GENCLIK ILE ELELE''(mano a mano contigo) obteniendo gran recepcion por parte de los DJs y aficionados a los clubes nocturnos de toda la cludad,asi coma tambien fue puesto regularmente en la radio y television.
A pesar de le magnificencia que Özkent habia alcanzado en sus arreglos eclécticos,el hecho de que el album (como originalmente fue solicitado) no tuviese vocales,origino que Evren Records decidera no lanzer ninguno de los singles de este LP y que todas las composiciones fueran exlusivas de sete vinilo extremadamente difficil de obtener.(RULITOMAN)
TURKISH
Gençliğinde ''Gençlik ile elele''olma fırsatını yakalayamayan,yayınlandığı yıllarda bir tırtıl muamelesine bile değer bulunmayan Mustafa Özkent'in'Gençlik ile elele' isimli albümü şimdi nadide bir kelebek gibi koleksiyoncuların ağlarına hedef oluyor.(MURAT BEŞER-MİLLİYET)
Müziğe 60 lı yıllarda başlayıp,birçok sanatçıya yaptığı aranjmanlar ve enstrümantal plakları ile dikkat çeken Mustafa Özkent,bir yandan yeni albümler yapmaya devam ediyor.
Ama Mustafa Özkent'in yıllar sonra yeniden dikkat çekmesinin nedeni 1973 yılında yayınladığı ilk enstrümantal albümü ''Gençlik ile elele''nin internette bir fenomene dönüşmüş olması (SUAT KAVUKLUOĞLU-HÜRRİYET)
Mustafa Özkent'in 1973 te yaptığı ve türküleri pop,jazz,rock gibi tarzlarda yorumladığı ''Gençlik ile elele'' isimli albümü bir ingiliz plak şirketi tarafından yeniden yayınlanınca,pek çok ülkede müzik listelerinin en tepesine oturdu.CD kapağındaki Dr. Frankestein yakıştırmasını,albümün kült olacağını öngören Andy Votel yapmış.(EYLEM BİLGİÇ-SABAH)
Şimdiye kadar iki kırkbeşlik,iki LP,ve onlarca enstrumantal kaset ve CD ye imza atan gitarist, aranjör Mustafa Özkent 1973 yılında ''Gençlik ile elele'' isimli bir album yaptı.
Büyük emekler harcıyarak hazırladığı albüm onun için bir düş kırıklığı oldu .Aradan bunca zaman geçti ve 2006 da ingiltere de tekrar yayınlanması ile birlikte birçok ülkede müzik listelerini altüst ediyor ve internetten ençok indirilen albümler arasında yer aliyor.(OYA DOĞAN-ZAMAN)
2006 ekim ayında ingiliz plak firmasi Finders Keepers tarafindan tekrar yayınlanan ve dünyanın birçok ülkesinde farklı muzik listelerine giren Mustafa Özkent'in ''Gençlik ile elele'' isimli albümü kendisine artık ölsemde gam yemem dedirtti.
Mustafa Özkent'in albümünü aylardır dinliyorum ve aslında bu topraklardan ne kadar nitelikli ve özgün eserlerin çıkmış olduğuna bir kez daha tanık oluyorum.1967-74 arası popüler müzikte Türkiye Dünya ile başabaş imiş;en azından bunu biliyoruz.(MURAT MERİÇ-RADİKAL)
Bundan 30 yıl önce ''Gençlik ile elele''isimli bir Albüm yapan Mustafa Özkent'in bu albümü son bir yıl içinde özellikle yurt dışında bir fenomene dönüşüyor.İngiliz plak şirketi 'Finders keepers Records' tarafından yeniden basılıyor ve New York Times da makale konusu oluyor. Kolleksiyoncular bu albümün bir altın madeni olduğunu keşfediyor hatta,ünlü film yönetmeni David Lynch'in en beğendiği albümler sıralamasında ilk sırayı alıyor.(SELİN ÖZAVCI-AKŞAM)
GENÇLIK ILE ELELE RADIO PLAYLISTS
28.01.2007 Radio last FM London
23.12.2006 Radio Earshot Montreal
28.01.2007 Radio Aperativo Lyon
17.05.2007 Radio BBC FM London
09.05.2007 Radio WRBB 104.9 FM
13.05.2007 Radio Mundo Bizarro MexIco
28.05.2007 Radio U.S.O. Helsinki
25.01.2007 Radio Ckut FM Montreal
28.12.2006 Radio Wuog FM Georgia
10.03.2007 Radio Wrbb FM Boston
18.01.2007 Radio Kpsu FM Portland
22.12.2006 Radio Evan Muse Hamburg
22.01.2007 David Lynch Austin Chronicle
GENÇLIK ILE ELELE SELLERS LISTS
22.12.2006 Best of 2006 Manchester
13.01.2007 Best of 2006 Japan
27.01.2007 Skulls across America
24.12.2006 Amazon UK
12.01.2007 Amazon Canada
22.01.2007 Top 5 reissues of 2006
27.01.2007 Yhe Strangers Top Reissues
18.02.2007 CMJ Prod 1 New York
25.01.2007 Musicashafe Hollanda
17.02.2007 Vinyl Shop Jazz New York
31.01.2007 Precomania.com Mexico
23.02.2007 Multi culti Records New York
25.01.2007 The Intercontinantal Cambridge
03.02.2007 Sonictroubar
10.02.2007 Killers bees CD club
25.04.2007 Red eyes records Australia
15.01.2007 Veja Online Brasil
01.02.2007 Groove Collector Saint Etienne
23.12.2007 Chemival Records
20.02.2007 Music Outfitter
25.01.2007 Darla com California"
23.12.2007 Guerssen Records Spain
14.03.2007 Frazy. com California
08.02.2007 Preço Mania Brasil
MUSTAFA ÖZKENT'IN YAYINLANMIŞ BESTELERİNDEN BAZILARI
Hayal Beldesinde 1985 Söz: Fikret Şeneş
Bıktım Artık Yarab 1987 Söz:Oya Erben
Bilirmisin 1991 Söz:Nadide Gülpınar
Hasreti Yaşadım 1992 Söz:Aysel Gürel
Yılları Durdur Allahım 1994 Söz:Galip Toraman
Dünden Razıyım 1994 Söz:Reşide Murat
Aşk kapıyı çalınca 1994 Söz:Sami Derintuna
Yıllanmış şarap gibi 1994 Söz: Sami Derintuna
Ateş bacayı sardı 1994 Söz:Sami Derintuna
Ararım Seni 1995 Söz:A.Selçuk İlkan
Naz Yapma 1995 Söz:Ayhan Aşan
En kötü günümüz böyle olsun 1996 Söz:Sami Derintuna
Dert etmeye değermi 1996 Söz: Sami Derintuna
Gücüm yetmiyor 1996 Söz: A.Selçuk İlkan
Bir dilek tut 1998 Söz:Reşide Murat
Bir tanem 1998 Söz: Gönül Şen
Yalnız beni sev 1998 Söz:Hülya Şenkul
Yaşamaya bak 1998 Söz:Gönül Şen
Üşüyormusun 1998 Söz:Hulya Şenkul
Sen ağlarsın 2002 Söz:Hülya Şenkul
Nice Yillara 2003 Söz: A.Selçuk İlkan
Kimene 2005 Söz-Müzik
Al gülüm ver gülüm 2005 Söz-Müzik
Vefasız 2006 Söz-Müzik
Aşka Yakalandim 2007 Söz-Müzik
Yalancı 2007 Söz-Müzik
MUSTAFA ÖZKENT'İN ARANJÖRLÜĞÜNÜ YAPTIĞI BAZI SANATÇILAR
Yıldırım Gürses,Muazzez Abacı,Harika Avcı,Nükhet Duru,Hüner Coşkuner,Ümit Besen,Safiye Soyman,Ferdi Özbeğen,Samime Sanay,Ayhan Aşan,Neco,Gülden Karaböcek,Sibel Egemen,Ayla Dikmen,Ayla Algan,Serpil Barlas,İlhan Gencer,Kartal Kaan,Burçin Orhon,Hamiyet Sezgin,Ayşe Tunalı,Kurtuluş,Ersan Tekin,Deniz Akbulut,Atilla Kaya,Yaşar Yağmur,Arif Susam,Semih Koç,Meral Mansuroğlu,Ayse Mine,Güngör Bayrak,Neşe Aksoy,Nurhan Damcıoğlu,Yüksel Özkasap,