Emine Bostancı: Dareyn Quartet
East and West lyrically intertwined
Emine Bostancı, virtuoso player of the Turkish kemenche (knee velvet) and this year's Music Meeting artist-in-residence, is founder and lynchpin of this extraordinary group. She has mastered ancient Ottoman court music to perfection, but is equally at home in Turkish folk music. Cellist Maya Fridman had been around for some time, but recently Dareyn grew into a quartet with Franz von Chossy on piano and Vinsent Planjer on percussion. Middle Eastern music is now very familiar to these men; to Franz because of his participation in the group Arifa and to Vinsent because of his long-standing collaboration with Rembrandt Frerichs and Tony Overwater. Characteristic of Dareyn's music is the lyrical and often melancholic sound of intertwining melody lines from kemenche and cello that, framed by carefully dosed keyboard playing and percussion, intertwine East and West. The new line-up also opens up new possibilities in terms of dynamics, resulting in the occasional surprisingly exuberant and swinging performance.
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