Tutuncu's unusual group is a vehicle for her own eastern/western compositions, and for the conversations of two excellent reed players - clarinetist Oguz Buyukberber and saxophonist Yahya Dai. Buyukberber sometimes suggests John Surman in the power, speed and drama he brings to the bass clarinet; Dai is a fluent exponent of styles as diverse as 30s swing or Gato Barbieri's fire. Carla's Second Tango is an explicit reference to Carla Bley's Reactionary Tango (a trickling upper-register piano melody reprises the original theme); the horn dialogue on the free-rolling piano vamp of Zeynep's Spitting Image turns into free-improv; Astor Piazzolla's Soledad gets a tender tenor-sax treatment; and there's a jam on a Debussy piece.

This is a group to look out for. ****
John Fordham, The Guardian, 01.12.2006