acid - trippin; ali perret - composer,keyboards, sarp maden - guitar, yahya dai - soprano & alto saxes, raci pismisoglu - bass, erdinc senol - drums, murat ozbey - percussion

guest musicians; erkan ogur - fretless guitar, ercument ates - guitar, misirli ahmet - bendir & darbukas, guray aktalay - trumpet, brenna macrimmon - vocal, ergun sesligil - soprano sax, alper benli - programming

recorded @ marsandiz studios istanbul   11. 2007

recording engineers; can besbelli, murat uncuoglu

mixing, mastering; can besbelli

producer; ali perret

cd cover design & graphics; mehmet ulusel

Midnite Rebels

acid - trippin; ali perret - composer,keyboards, sarp maden - guitar, yahya dai - soprano & alto saxes, raci pismisoglu - bass, erdinc senol - drums, murat ozbey - percussion
guest musicians; erkan ogur - fretless guitar, ercument ates - guitar, misirli ahmet - bendir & darbukas, guray aktalay - trumpet, brenna macrimmon - vocal, ergun sesligil - soprano sax, alper benli - programming

recorded @ marsandiz studios istanbul   11. 2007

recording engineers; can besbelli, murat uncuoglu

mixing, mastering; can besbelli

producer; ali perret

cd cover design & graphics; mehmet ulusel

Sepren

Spring Depression

ZERO GENERATION                                                                            


inspired by the story of  “paradise lost”  from Ursula K. Le Guin       
Dance music; Ali Perret
summary;
ACT: I
LIFE ON DISCOVERY (Earth)
Zero generation, angels and bliss
There are no months of the year. There is no moon. There is no year. There is no sun. Time is divided into lightcycles,  darkcycles,  and ten days.  Every 365.25 cycles there is a celebration and a number called The  year is changed.
Dangers, risks. In the glass bubble, the fragile world, the danger of schism, of conspiracy, the
Danger of aberrant behavior, madness, the violence of madness, no decision of any consequence at all was to be made by a single person acting without counsel. Nobody ever, since the beginning, had been allowed alone at any of the systems controls. Always a backup, a watcher. Yet there had been incidents. None had yet wreaked permanent damage.
But what of the merely normal, usual behavior of   human  beings?  What is aberrant? Who’s sane?
Read the histories. History tells us  who we are, how we have behaved, therefore how we will behave.
Does it? The history in the bookscreens, Earth history, that appalling record of injustice, cruelty, enslavement, hatred, murder - that record, justified and glorified by every government and institution- of waste and misuse of human life, animal life, plant life, the air, the water, the planet? If that is who we are, what hope for us? History must be what we have escaped from. It is what we were, not what we are. History is what we need never do again.
The foam of the salt ocean has tossed up a bubble. It floats free. To learn who we are, look not at history but at the arts, the record of our best, our genius.
Ti Chiu, Dichew, the dirt-ball. Earth. The  “garbage”  world.  The  “ trash”  planet.
The people of the Zero Generation, the worldmakers, had believed that they were imposing an immense sacrifice on their descendants. What the Zeroes gave up, what they lost leaving Earth – was compensated to them by their mission, their hope, and by the tremendous power they had wielded in creating the very fabric of life for thousands of people for generations to come.  “we  are the gods of Discovery, may the true gods forgive us our arrogance!”
But they speculated on the years to come, they did not write of there descendants as children of the gods, but as victims, seeing them with fear, guilt, and pity, helpless prisoners of their ancestor’s will and desire. ”How will they forgive us? We who took the seas, the mountains, the meadowlands, the cities, the sunlight from them, all their birthright? We have left them trapped in a cage, a tin can, a specimen box, to live and die like laboratory rats and never see the moon, never run across a field, never know what freedom is!”
“Rejoice in the voyage of life, from life, to life,Life everlasting, bliss everlasting.We are flying, O my angels, we will fly!” 

Zero Generation

Charles Mingus’ music has been significant and challenging not only because of his unique, avant-garde approach but also its being deeply rooted into the Afro-American musical tradition. The challenging part of this project was to arrange his music without loosing the sound and the character of  Mingus’ compositions. Therefore, Ali Perret arranged it as he interpret it today with his own compositional skills and personality. He didn’t change the melodies, but did change the form and the harmony, insisting Mingus’ distinctive melodies float on top of the new harmonies and his concept.


The musicians that played on this project not only added creativity, knowledge, and understanding to Mingus’ music but also put their belief in ensemble playing, which was an important part of his music. For Mingus, like Duke Ellington, the individual sounds of the players were a vital sound source for composing and arranging. Mingus alumni Ricky Ford, who played, recorded and toured with Mingus for two years in the late 70s, responded to this project on a  interview by saying: “If Mingus was around to hear this project he would definitely dug it.” 

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ali perret - piyano. ole thoger - t.sax, imer demirer - trumpet, yaz baltacigil - d.bass,

selim selcuk - drums

recorded to two track live   1990  slavebor records


Crazy Blues

ZERO GENERATION                                                                            


inspired by the story of  “paradise lost”  from Ursula K. Le Guin       


Dance music; Ali Perret

New Earth

istanbul jazz quartet
ali perret - piyano. ole thoger - t.sax, imer demirer - trumpet, yaz baltacigil - d.bass,
selim selcuk - drums

recorded to two track live   1990  slavebor records


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