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12 tracks | 53 minutes
Released Oct 2006
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Contemporary Native American flute with world music/jazz fusion instrumentation.
Bio / Background
Evren Ozan is a 14 year old contemporary Native American flute musician whose compositions are heard on his CDs, radio, independent films and in concert. He was six when he discovered the native flute on a cross-country road trip. At the first stop, the Grand Canyon, Evren went straight to the native instruments counter and picked out a cedar flute. He paid for it with all of his trip allowance and has been playing native flutes ever since.
Since then, Evren has performed extensively throughout the US and in Alaska, England, Germany and Belgium. His first album, Images of Winter, was recorded when he was 7, and won "Rising Star" from the Native American Music Awards. His second album, As Things Could Be, was recorded when he was 9, and won the same award. He has appeared in numerous national and international journals, including National Geographic's WORLD, appeared on television and heard on several independent films.
↓ more ↓He has an active performance schedule at galleries, concert halls, environmental and charitable events, schools, museums and festivals. Evren has studied with BerkleeMusic and was named a Davidson Fellow in Music in 2005.
ALLUVIA was named one of 2006's 12 Best New Age/World Fusion Recordings by New Age Reporter.com, and was the recipient of the "Best Instrumenal" award from the 2007 Inland Empire Music Awards. The album was reviewed by Bill Binkelman of New Age Reporter
(www.newagereporter.com) on Dec. 4, 2006. He rated the album "EXCELLENT" and wrote:
Sometimes, an artist's talent and vision startles me. Evren Ozan is one such artist. This thirteen year old is the epitome of the word "prodigy." When I first listened to his latest release, Alluvia, I was so awestruck that I sincerely wondered if he was as young as he appeared to be and as was stated on his website. Call me a doubting Thomas, but no disrespect was meant on my part. It's just that this is such a mature, self-assured, and diverse recording and Evren's (I can't bring myself to call him by his last n ame) flute playing is so good. Well, I doubt no longer! Evren Ozan is the real deal and I can only wonder at what's going to happen if he gets better at his art!
Turning to the CD itself, on Aluvia, the wooden/Native American flutist continues to evole his music, this time paring down some of the more frenetic cross-cultural fusion elements of his last recording, As Things Could Be (e.g.no didgeridoo) and slimming down production somewhat in favor of a leaner more contemporary jazz fusion sound, mixing uptempo workouts laced with funky beats (and occasionally introducing world beat elements or overt Native American textures) along with a few quieter introspective pieces. His adroit, passionate, and at times playful flute work still abounds (maybe even more so than on the last CD). However, the compositions here (which are all co-written with producer and accompanying musician Mac Ritchey, and occasionally others as well) are more mature, less "busy" with more room for natural improvisation (without leading to pointless noodling). While some tracks are plenty energizing, there are also shades of mystery and darkness filtered in amongst the toe-tapping rhythms and melodies (there's even a quasi-ambient album cut, Shavasanah, which ends the album in spectacular fashion). Unique use of synthesizers (not just the standard string embellishments or textures) can be heard at the periphery of some songs, such as on the uptempo opening Belle's Quirky Independence which features whirly-gigging retro synth sounds.
Besides Ritchey (on guitars, bass, drums, percussion and synths), other musicians on the CD include Michael Dailak and Simeon Darley-Chapin on percussion, Andrew Dow on bass, and Daniel Thompson, who provides an "ambient bed" for the closing track, Shavasanah. With twelve diverse songs on Alluvia, detailed descriptions of the individual tracks would not fit in my allotted review space. I'll highlight a few, though, to give you a thumbnail picture just the same. Taval marries haunting lilting flute to assorted propulsive percussion, thumping bass, and bouzouki (a guitar-like stringed instrument). Loss is an appropriately morose, somber duet of Evren's Native flute and Ritchey's plaintive bouzouki. Chiaroscuro, a low-key yet mellow tune on flute, acoustic guitar, djembe, and bass, aptly captures the meaning of the word ("the distribution of light and shade in a picture"). Two if by Camel kicks up its heels with a trippy light-hearted blend of funky fun and ethnic fusion elements. I challenge you to resist the soulful jazz riffing and rhythms of The Climb (I love that thumping bass and organ -- shades of Herbie Mann!) or the pan-African joy of Alpenglow. They're both excellent tracks!
At times voking comparisons to no less than the seminal world fusion/new age band Shadowfax (e.g. An Ephemeral Dream), Evren Ozan and his crew light it up throughout Alluvia. This young man displays talent and artistry far beyond his yers and Ritchey et al. provide not just ample support but come together with the flutist to form a symbiotic whole which is much more than the sum of their individual parts. Alluvia blew my socks off and then some. It earns my highest recommendation and, for me, it's absolutely in the running for album of the year.
--Bill Binkelman, New Age Reporter, Dec. 4, 2006
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