PHYSICAL CDs, you can buy directly from us.
Write us to lightinbabylonmusic@gmail.com with the title 'CD purchase'.
Any CDs can be signed by us, we have also cotton bags, signed postcards and magnets (see photo below).
Yeni Dunya
2016
"Yeni Dunya", which means in Turkish "New World" features our latest compositions and also includes three cover songs: two anonynous turkish folk songs and the world famous hit of John Lennon - "Imagine", in a sophisticated turkish rhythm as a bonus track. The deep and emotional voice of Michal is once again accompanied by the airy sound of the santour and the fiery strings of the guitar. Oriental percussions and bass guitar adds excitement and heartiness to the musical arrangement. Recorded in Ada Studio in Istanbul by the talented Ozgur Ozkan Mete.
Life Sometimes Doesn't Give You Space
2013
fRoots magazine review: An unlikely collaboration between Michal Elia Kamal, an Israeli singer of Iranian origin, French guitarist Julien Demarque and Metehan Ciftci who hails from Turkey and plays the santur (iranian dulcimer), Light in Babylon met in Istanbul a couple of years back and peddle a heady acoustic mix that slips around the Med, the Sephardic world and the Middle East on this, their first album proper. They're joined by percussionist Demir Asaad and Jack Butler on bass (plus, at various points, clarinet, violin, accordeon and hurdy gurdy), Ms Kamal sings from the heart, all swirling swing and declamatory passion. Ciftci's santur features prominently and provides an unusual base for the cross cultural jinks that surround it. Arrangements are imaginative but uncluttered and they are some fine songs (music by the core trio, lyrics by Kamal). A celebration of the cosmopolitan tradition of both Istanbul and the Sephardic Jewish community and another example of the great music that's coming out of the Eastern Mediterranean right now.
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