HAZAR (ULAŞ HAZAR)

Ulas Hazar, who was born in 1977 in eastern Turkey and now lives in southern Germany, grew up with the saz. His fiery play was kindled by a visit to a concert with Paco de Lucia, who still has an influence on his music to this day. What’s special about Ulas’s music is his individual mix of eastern and western music, a combination of traditional sounds from his homeland and flamenco, jazz and occidental classical music. On his album “Virtuoso”, traditional Turkish music casually shares space with music of Mozart, Paganini, Chick Corea or flamenco pieces. from www.acoustic-music.de Hazar grew up in Germany spent years playing an instrument called the saz. Saz is essentially a long-necked lute with three strings. Throughout the years while learning to play microtonal and polyrhythmic forms, Hazar began to blend Western and Eastern music, an approach that probably lends to his unique style and sound. Hazar’s first read more...