Playlist for today

I chose 5 tracks from a very special album by a very special artist today, an artist I barely know, and yet, an artist and an album with some beautiful memories left behind; Tayfun Erdem, who was born in Istanbul, studied composition at the School of Music in Indiana University (1980-82) with the Chilean composer Juan-Orrego Salas and counterpoint with Bernhard Heiden, and he has been living in Berlin as a composer and pianist since 1982. The album is Dreams and Dances of A Silent Butterfly.

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A Few Words About the Music...
by Tayfun Erdem


I could probably talk for hours, days or even weeks about all these "journeys" of mine throughout the '90s. which gave birth to the music you hear on this CD... For example about my very crazy and very funny love adventures with a seagull from Coimbra. the old capital of the colonial power Portugal, which suddenly opened my eyes and especially my ears to a completely new, and vast and deeply colourful "tierra nueva": The continent of "Latino Americanos"... And of course I could tell you also about Margit, my love.my angel... A wine queen from Dernau on the banks of the Rhein -an area inhabited since the Roman times by wine producing farmers, very catholic and very modest and about Margit's unbelievable struggle for near ly 14 years against a very severe kind of multiple sclerosis, without ever losing her sense of humour like in one of these great survival stories of the American writer Jack London... But why?.. Why should I tell all these and other stories?.. Because after all these "Journeys", I learned -at least!- one thing:Music is very similar to love!...You don't need to speak about it very much... Just live it -and let it flow over all your body- and then you will know -for sure!- everything you need to know about love (or music !...)

So whilst you listen to this CD, I can only hope that you will enjoy it and that the sounds will have the power to seduce you and take you upon as much as possible and unique journeys of your own like in these wonderful lines of the Greek poet K.Kovafis... Anyway, what more can we expect from a good love (or a good piece of music) except that this encounter has the power to throw us like a rocket out of the routine of our daily life and drive us deep into the fire-seas of purgatory and hell and then - only if we have enough passion!- hurl us upwards to the very top floors of heaven and paradise?,. If we're lucky, our whole life long and if not, okay. Then at least for just some seconds!...