SONG REVIEW 🎵📝 Cem Barış Çetinkayalı - Irmak
Cem Barış Çetinkayalı - Irmak Alternative/Alt. Rock TR Overall Impression: There is something wonderfully untamed about “Irmak,” the latest guitar instrumental from Cem Barış Çetinkayalı. Rather than approaching the guitar with a carefully mapped-out route, Cem appears to throw open the doors and simply follow wherever the music decides to wander. The result is an open-sounding, freestyle excursion into world music territory, one that places spontaneity firmly in the driver’s seat. This is music very much written in real-time. Ideas appear, disappear, mutate, circle back, and occasionally take an entirely unexpected turn. There is no obvious safety net of a rigid arrangement dictating where the journey must go, and that gives “Irmak” an undeniably unpredictable character. The predominantly Middle Eastern character of the piece gives this journey an especially distinctive landscape. There is an exotic, emotive quality woven through the melodic language, with cert...
