Timuçin Şahin's Flow State - Funk Poems for 'Bird' - INTERVIEW

Timuçin Şahin's Flow State - Funk Poems for 'Bird' (a Homage to Charlie Parker)

Guitarist/composer Timuçin Şahin release Funk Poems for 'Bird', a reckoning with the ghost of one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, Charlie Parker, as well as a document of Şahin’s unique collage of influences from the classical and improvisational avant-garde. Joined by pianist Cory Smythe, bassist Reggie Washington, and drummer Sean Rickman, Şahin’s double neck guitar (one standard neck and the other fretless neck in an alternate tuning) careens through textures that are shaped by Bird's spirit while also being infused with the rhythmic energy of funk music and the chromatic pitch vocabulary of 20th century modernists.

Flow State
Timuçin Şahin: 7 string fretless & 6 string fretted and baritone guitars
Cory Smythe: Piano
Reggie Washington: Bass
Sean Rickman: Drums

"Here the jazz of bebop’s future mixes with the aura of Igor Stravinsky, Edgar Varese and other figures within 20th-century European art music’s avant garde. This is not a random pairing: Parker had plans to study with Varese, but died before that could happen. His oft-voiced desire to take lessons from the composer caused Sahin to listen to him anew, and he heard a new world of possibility within Bird’s solos when he did. Rather than mimic or reference Bird’s distinctive moves, the musicians here strive to create a musical offering that the man himself would have valued.”
- J. Martin Daughtry

Funk Poems for 'Bird’ coming out on November 4, 2022 by @New Focus Recordings and @Kalan Müzik!

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