Flamenco Dervishes: Tahir Aydoğdu and Eric Vaarzon Morel with "Hermanos (Sema Ve Dans)"

Today's random tune is an interesting hybrid - Sufi flamenco! The artists are Tahir Aydoğdu and Eric Vaarzon Morel. Known for fusing Western classical music and jazz with Turkish classical music, Tahir Aydoğdu is a Turkish virtuoso of the qanun, a type of dulcimer that is plucked. Eric Vaarzon Morel is a Dutch flamenco guitarist and the great grandson of the Dutch painter Willem Vaarzon Morel. He was taught by Paco Peña and at nineteen he moved to Spain and lived for two years. He has worked with a variety of musicians. This song, Hermanos (Sema Ve Dans), can be found on their album Sufi Müzik'ten Flamenko'ya (From Sufi to Flamenco), issued in 2000.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahir_Aydo%C4%9Fdu">Tahir Aydoğdu; https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Vaarzon_Morel

Tis the Season: Ot Azoj Klezmerband and "Channukah, Oy Channukah"

Okay, so it's a little early in the season, but today's song is a holiday number by the Ot Azoj Klezmerband. Founded in 1994, the band plays music from the fictional country of Molvania, which consists of a blend of klezmer, Balkan, Turkish and Greek musics, as well as a sprinkling of Polish and Latin. The band was formed in 1994 in the Netherlands and is known for energetic performances using only acoustic instruments. They have released ten albums. This song, Channukah, Oy Channukah, can be found on their 1999 album Channukah - Festival of Lights.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

A Dutch O' the Green: BZB and "Ik Vond Mezelf Terug"

BZB, the band which plays today's random tune, is an interesting group from the Netherlands. Founded in 1992 in the Dutch town of Volkel, they were originally a garage band that took much influence from metal, particularly the band Zymosis. However, over the years the influence of metal has decreased in favor of Irish folk. Listening to this song, Ik Vond Mezelf Terug (translates into something like "I Found My Way Back"), you hear just the slightest bit of their metal past along with their take on an Irish folk song, leaving them sound a little like an Irish punk band with a fuller rock sound. You can find Ik Vond Mezelf Terug on their 2009 CD Volgens Bartjes!