Misirli Ahmet

Friday night I joined Marina, her flatmate, Gaye and her boyfriend to the concert of Misirli Ahmet. Ahmet is supposed to be a very famous darbuka player in Turkey, he got the name Misirli (= from Egypt) because he went to Egypt to study how to play the darbuka there. Funny enough people in Egypt refer to him as Ahmed el Turki. On youtube you can find video's of him playing two darbuka's at the same time! Since I very much like the darbuka I was curious about him. The concert was good but different than I expected though. It was very jazzy with the combination of a synthesizer (by the way, what is it with Turks and synthesizers, they are everywhere!), two electrical guitars, drums and a clarinet. However in the end Misirli Ahmet and the drummer gave a fantastic show...without the other musicians ;)