Okay Temiz – Limited Edition / Hand Numbered Collectable

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Caz Plak Presents OKAY TEMİZ’S ‘ORIENTAL WIND’ LIVE AT MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL.

1982 Okay Temiz’s hand-numbered and hand-signed limited edition collectibles, produced in 3 different editions for Turkey, Europe and Japan, can now be purchased on our digital store Cazplak.com and Opus3a.com.

0-2 numbers of the editions are only available in Turkey.

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Liner Notes by Haluk Damar

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

The group Oriental Wind, which Okay Temiz founded in 1975,
is a paragon of those particular creative qualities. The original members of the group included Okay Temiz (who has played together with Don Cherry, Dexter Gordon, Clark Terry, Abdullah Ibrahim and Art Taylor), Bobo Stenson (who has worked with the Jan Garbarek – Bobo Stenson Quartet and
the Charles Moyd Quartet), Palle Danielsson (who has collaborated with Keith Jarret, Elvin Jones and John Scofield}, and Lennart Âberg (who has played with Peter Erskine and the Scandinavia New Jazz Group). Together, they set out to create an altogether new musical territory of their own.
Dexter Gordon, one of the most important figures in the history of jazz music, was the first to call on Okay Temiz to try his hand at the modalities of jazz. However, it would take Temiz ten years of working with Don Cherry, another legend, before he got a firm footing in this new realm of music and
mastered the form.

Temiz described his musical relationship with Don Cherry
in the following terms: “I was playing rhythms that were distinct to Anatolia, but Don heard them in a completely new way thanks to his African-American roots and extensive experience playing jazz. When Don and I took to the stage together, we never talked beforehand about what we were going to play, nor did we feel a need to have practice sessions. We simply fell into dialogue through our instruments and set about creating a shared world through our music.” And what a dialogue it was!

For ten years, Don Cherry, Okay Temiz and Johnny Dyani played as a trio, creating a new universe of sound that stretched as far afield as Boston and Istanbul. In the meantime, Temiz was hard at work developing his own musical language. When the summer of 1975 rolled around, he began penning the travelogue of the musical journey he was undertaking as the band leader of Oriental Wind. In 1982, Oriental Wind was invited to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival, the most prestigious jazz festival in the world, where they
would take to the stage before the famous Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil.

In these recordings, Oriental Wind breathes life into an unrivalled synthesis
of music theory, and the key point that sets them apart from the others is their approach to improvisation. The performance of Oriental Wind at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982 is nothing short of a jazz manifesto demonstrating just how improvisation can be done by sticking to the melody and rhythm in the creation of a new sound that is steeped in a fresh musical idiom.

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Then insert ‘Killing Custom’.

They arrived from either the stars, 70’s İstanbul, or just woke up from a bed full of 70’s Turkish action stars and actresses. — Sorry, we got so excited and couldn’t locate where they came from when we heard their concept idea about this legendary figure. But let’s focus on our broadcast now — Killing Custom brought the “Let’s do the black and white Turkish Radio Television version of him. Let’s do a black and white figure of Mr. Temiz” idea to the table, and our minds were blown.

This is the best idea since Turkish filmmakers stole the Star Wars footage to use the same Death Star footage in a legendary Turkish space science fiction movie in the 80s. As they call it, this is not a toy but a legendary collectible.

MANUFACTURED BY: @cazplak @halukdamars @erincguzels @kilink_custom