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| Olcay Bayir |
Ignacio Monteverde
6th March 2019
A World in London, Resonance FM, London, UK
The voice of harmony & dreams,
Olcay Bayir on this A World in London!
Click to listen:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-6th-march-2019/
Olcay Bayir’s hotly anticipated
second album, Ruya, comes out on March 29th via ARC Music, and it’s
a triumph! On this deeply personal CD, Olcay has tuned in to her
inner thoughts and dreams, creating songs drawn from her experiences
between Antep and London, adding some vivid story-telling, as well as
lush instrumentation topped by her gilted, luxurious voice. Olcay is
a trained opera soprano with a three-octave range, which we verified
in the studio, but she never sat comfortably in the western classical
world. Her musical heart lies in the Anatolian region of her
childhood, offering up a vast range of material to inspire and
challenge, though Olcay skilfully manoeuvres through Maqams and
tricky vocal ornamentations that are easy to get wrong but which she
gets absolutely right - making them seem easy. She’s put her
new music partner, Ignacio Monteverde, through his paces with complex
Arabic time signatures, despite his prowess with flamenco guitar, but
he seems to relish the steep learning curves! Other contributors to
Ruya include Kefaya’s virtuosic guys Al MacSween and Guilliano
Modarelli, so from start to finish this album has been built by an
outstanding cast of musicians, led by Olcay herself. When we first
met her in 2015, just after her debut album ‘Neva’ was released,
we knew she was special, and ‘Ruya’ affirms that initial insight,
but also completes our joy in seeing how much she has evolved as a
singer AND songwriter, now graduating in the school of stardom, with
flying colours. Hear Olcay and Ignacio live on this AWIL, our 200th
edition at Resonance FM, and book tickets now for her album launch at
St John’s Church, Leytonstone on April 12th! More about Olcay here:
www.olcaybayir.com
6/3/19 – AWIL 200 Online:
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/a-world-in-london-6th-march-2019/
Production & pics by Norman Druker, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen,
and artist Alban Low. Also this week Luganda nursery rhymes with
Diana Lwanga at SOAS Radio, click:
https://www.mixcloud.com/SOASradio/awil-291-diana-lwanga/ Next
week Peyman Heydarian at SOAS Radio and Arhai at Resonance. Download
the AWIL Album Wonderland 2018 from #Spotify! Top 50 global CDs
handpicked by #AWorldinLondon – Click here:
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