First I would like to say that this is one of the best and most interesting jazz albums coming from Turkey. The young Turkish pianist, a master of improvisation, revises works of C. Bley, C. Corea, J. Garbarek, E. Gismonti, Debussy and others alongside her own compositions with her group consisting of four percussionists and the bass clarinetist Oguz Büyükberber. The pianist called this work of her Variations apparently to point out that she handled her materials at hand with quite a big freedom and creating her own unique original interpratation. In the end she succeeds to reach an interesting balance between composition and improvisation, which is worth listening to.
Emanuel Wenger, Jazz Live, 163-03 /Winter 2002 / Austria Samba Agirlamasi is another of the outstanding pieces of the album. Though the theme comes from Egberto Gismonti, Ayse Tütüncü imbues it with a uniquely novel character. It soars on with an improvisatory wealth of sounds complete with reflections from Turkish music.
Orhan Kahyaoglu, Milliyet, 1999 / Turkey