Self-released
Producer: Meltem Ege
On Solitude, Turkish-American jazz artist Meltem Ege bridges Turkey and Los Angeles. Ege’s agile voice dances nimbly between English and Turkish, her breathy, ethereal vocals leaving plenty of space for the music to sprawl—sometimes elegantly, sometimes indulgently. “Aklında Kalmasın,” sung in Turkish, is a lush homage to the genre. It’s not easy listening, but it is rewarding: part smoky lounge, part avant-garde recital. There’s nowhere to hide in a record like this, and Ege doesn’t need to.
