Welcoming a new member to the Halaken family, Turkish duo Ikaru breathes new life into one of Mercan Dede's earliest works, 'Dream of Shams' from his ‘Sufi Dreams’ album of 1999.
Inspired by Dede’s stewardship of world music and traditional Eastern sounds into the electronic realm, the young duo carry the torch as part of a new generation of Middle Eastern producers, adding their own unique voice. Their reimagination is a fusion of the spirit of the original score, the voice of the electric guitar and the fresh power of synthesizers.
The story manifests itself as an illumination in the darkest of times, and realizes an intimate and unique understanding of Shams al-Tabrizi's dream. It reveals the connection between two seemingly distant but inherently unified stories: Rûmi and Shams. As one of the most distinguished stories of companionship and love, they unite in the Dance of the Sufî -semâ- as they follow each other in an unstoppable and ecstatic oscillation of light and dark, dream and reality, yin and yang.
This is an invitation to overcome and accept what we're all living through. In Rûmi's words, "there is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it'.
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