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Artist
Muammer Ketencoğlu
12+ albums
balkanaccordionturkishfolkwood and string
about
Born in Tire, Izmir in 1964, Muammer Ketencoğlu received his initial musical training in a school for the blind during his years of primary and secondary education. He came to realise that among the musical instruments accordion was the one he played with greater emotional intensity and deeper satisfaction. He made popular music until 1986. During his years in the Bosphorus University, Department of Psychology which he entered in 1983, he was attracted to the folk music of different peoples of the world. Although he first focused on contemporary Greek music (Laika) and Rebetica, his affinity for other peoples' folk music ultimately led him to find his main course in the Balkan music and Western Anatolia music. His first personal album, a Kalan Music production, Sevdali Kiyilar - Latremmena Akroyalia (Passionate Coasts), covering old and new Greek songs, appeared in 1993. He prepared two collections of Rebetiko songs, Rebetiko I and Rebetiko II, which were produced in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Another anthology compiled by Ketencoglu and produced in 1995 was entitled Pioneers of the Klezmer Music. The album brought together examples of Klezmer music based mainly on traditional eastern European Jewish music. In the same year he prepared an anthology, Halklardan Ezgiler (Popular Tunes), comprising four albums, each containing folk songs that best represent the traditional music of Armenia, Azarbaijan, Georgia (with Ibarya Özkan's support in selecting the songs) and Central As
