March 29, 2019
Shango Records
I had to smile. It was always like that with BEYHUDE. He had a genius for creating pure beauty, Downtempo, dreamy, spaceless, Electronica grooves. Anyway, the rainy season was coming on, the long, dreary stretch of grease and fog and squirts of rain that make you damp and miserable. An execrable place in the winter, Istanbul! A climate that eats into your soul, that leaves you bare as the Labrador coast. I noticed with some anxiety that the only means of heating the place was the little stove in the studio. However, it was still comfortable. And the view from the studio window was superb. In the morning the sun was there. I would settle back for a final snooze. Sometimes I would lie abed till noon. There was nothing pressing, except to finish the release, and that didn't worry me much because I was already convinced that nobody would accept it anyway. Nevertheless, everybody was much impressed by it. When the others arrived in the evening with a bottle under their arms the first thing they did were to go to the table and see if things are ready. And, finally, are. BOUBOUTEQ and ISAQUE SOLARIS were on it too. Four pieces of beauty for the love of music. And I liked the idea of dreaming the Bosphorus in the background.