No easy-listening for sure, but with enough hooks to make listening
an unexerted pleasure. Tobias Fischer, Mouvement Nouveau / Tokafi,
02.2006
Dissing popular culture, Betty Ween is in a category of its own with her
no-nonsense-style, courageous and weird stories.
Murat Beser, Milliyet Newspaper,
February 2006
Just between you and me, they offer the marvelous freshness that this
country’s music needs.
Iskender
Büyük, Hülya, March 2004
A voice
that is soft and moving, yet strong and decisive. Sometimes explosive, but
keeping to the rhythym of the dense trip-hop, rock-jazz flowing below, the
mournful cello, an uplifting rhythm that shapes the listener to its own
beat... Betty Ween makes you say, “Don’t let this be just a one-off album.”
Merve
Erol, Postexpress, March 2004
Gülüş Gülcügil Türkmen projects her own complex emotional state without
messing up our minds. The musicianship on this album is outstanding.
Özlem,
Blue Jean, February 2004
A bit rebellious, a bit nostalgic and intimate. "Music is a Man", "Trivial
Disappointment" and "Deus Ex Machina" are the outstanding singles on this
album, which I would describe as experimental jazz.
Levent
Ozcelik, Ulusoy Travel, February 2004
"In Betty Ween" is an album that provides the ultimate in clarity and listenability.
It may be a pop album, but it contains songs that approach jazz and rock,
as well as those whose naive lyrics and music are reminiscent of Ricky Lee
Jones. The single “Lost Satellite”, which was also made into a video, is
the most lively and “rock” song on the album, but it won’t give you much
of an idea about the album as a whole. If you ask me, the best songs on
the album are the more down-tempo, moody “Several Times a Year” and “Bora,”
which is the story of a horse. The cello-and-vocal composition “Trivial
Disappointment” is another piece that stands out.
Esra Okutan,
Istanbul
Life, February 2004
The soloist as well as the musicians make this a first-class album. And
it doesn’t take any effort on first hearing. Whether or not you’ll develop
a passion for inbetweenness if you take a deeper listen, I can’t say.
Sevin
Okyay, Radikal,
28 September
2003
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