Many of us have listened to the mesmerising sound of the santoor, an instrument made famous by the late Shiv Kumar Sharma Many of us have listened to the mesmerising sound of the santoor, an ...

Ates Temeltas is a software consultant in Walnut Creek, but it's his second career that gives him the most satisfaction: He shares the enchanting music of his native Turkey and its neighbors through ...

Grammy-nominated Turkish composer and musician Mehmet Ali Sanlikol would like to introduce his one-of-a-kind dream instrument. It’s been decades in the making, and on Wednesday, March 26, his ...

Wooden attachments on old plastic jugs, a bell, an old glasses case — these are all instruments. Upcycled, of course. They’re used by Herman Rrtuc, Roni Aran and Serhat Ayebe, a Turkish music band ...

Middle Eastern instrumentation, modes and rhythms have long served as source material for jazz musicians wishing to extend their musical boundaries. In the early days of jazz, an "oriental tinge was ...

The relentless quest to reissue every decent piece of rock 'n' roll from the '60s and '70s long ago exhausted the U.S. and U.K. warehouses. The new trend for the past couple years is to dig up all ...