Trio Morgenland: Open Land
(modern oriental / world-jazz)

Mesut Lekesiz – saxophones, clarinet, bendir
Hub Hildenbrand – electric guitar, fretless classical guitar, fretless acoustic octave guitar
Dimitris Christides – drums, percussion

Cd-Release:
- Trio Morgenland "Open Land" (morgenland, 2011)
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The musicians who make up (the Greek/German/Turkish) Trio Morgenland are nomads on a shared journey through the world’s cultures. They go in search of the vocabulary of the global language that is music: the vocabulary they will then use to tell their own story. Dimitris Christides lays down a powerfully rhythmic foundation, deeply rooted in the Oriental tradition of percussion. Building on this basis, guitarist Hub Hildenbrand creates variety and contrast, now sketching delicate, floating, breathing sounds, now digging deep into the rhythm. Above the stable substructure, saxophonist Mesut Lekesiz weaves melodies that simply fly right over the barrier between the Orient and the Occident. The resultant music is intriguing and full of subtle nuances.