Murat Ses

Automaton (Clou Records, Clou-001, KALAN Music, Peacework Music)

Automaton is the first part of Turkish-Austrian synthetist/electronic musician Murat Ses' trilogy that began in early 90s.
I listened to the second album Binfen first and then came to other two. Automaton is more Anatolian roots and wild compared to Binfen and Culduz.

Murat is telling wonderful musical stories from a part of the world with rich traditions (see booklets). His musical approach is neither "orientalistic' nor 'occidentalistic'... and difficult to categorize.

His trilogy's main theme "The Timeless and Boundariless Context of Culture and Civilization" possibly is something all we need these days be it west or east.
A fusion of ethnic self-programmed timbres (such as a synthetic zurna, mey, kaval, ney, kanun or sounds of mehter ensembles you might hear at the Topkapi Palace) in microtonal settings.
His sound possibly is a dialectic quantum leap from his earlier sound of the 70's called Anadolu Pop. That style revolutionized Turkey's music then.

As an enthusiastic student of this kind of music I liked: Dry Sun, Argus babe, Mehter and some kind of symphonic New Age Belt of Orion.

Murat's official website: http://www.muratses.com