Sen - Sen Ciftetelli Husnusen... — Piyanist Ibrahim

For the modern listener, discovering is like finding a secret garden. In an era of Auto-Tuned pop and synthesized beats, his raw piano sounds refreshingly human. You can hear the pedal release, the hammer hit the strings, and the slight imperfections of a live studio take.

However, Sen did not use the piano to play Chopin or Mozart. He used it to play Oyun Havaları (dance tunes). He developed a percussive, glissando-heavy technique where the piano mimicked the darbuka (goblet drum) and the klarnet . In recordings of “Şen Çiftetelli,” one hears not a delicate classical touch, but a hammering of the bass register to drive the rhythm, while the right hand dances through the Hicaz or Uşşak makams (modes) with a staccato brightness. He was, in essence, a one-man fasıl orchestra. PIYANIST IBRAHIM SEN - Sen Ciftetelli husnusen...