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Mesut Ozgen, Troubador

By Julia Crowe

In this aptly named album, Mesut Özgen travels through disparate time periods and cultures, weaving a colorful tapestry of folk-inspired classical guitar music. The album opens with Carlo Domeniconi’s beautifully pensive “Variations on an Anatolian Folk Song” (based on the poem “I Am on a Narrow Road or Journey” by 20th-century Turkish troubadour Aﬂik Veysel), followed by Anthony Newman’s “Gigue,” a piece of sinuous perpetual motion and rock-like rhythms broken by guitar tapping. Özgen’s intelligent rendering of the classic folk tune “Shenandoah” provides quiet, meditative contrast to what came before and what follows: Jorge Morel’s arrangement of Fernando Bustamante’s fiendishly fret-racing “Misionera” and Johann Kaspar Mertz’ majestic “Fantaisie Hongroise.” Özgen closes the album with Christopher Pratorius’ three-part “Ondas do Mar de Vigo,” bringing lyrical intensity and modern textures to an adaptation of a Spanish song by the medieval Portuguese troubadour Martin Codax. Özgen’s playing is stunningly versatile and expressive throughout. (Golden Horn, www.goldenhorn.com)

This article also appears in Acoustic Guitar, Issue #150

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