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La Mélancolie Royale – Méditation Soufie is an album of six solo pieces for the ney, the reed flute of Ottoman classical and Mevlevi Sufi music, composed and played by the Turkish master Kudsi Erguner and released by Seyir Müzik on 24 May 2019. Erguner, born in 1952 in Diyarbakır and taught the ney by his father and grandfather, uses a single instrument, a kız ney in A, across five different makams, in meditations lasting from about seven to fifteen minutes. The title refers to the melancholy that the Westward-leaning Ottoman sultans of the 19th century felt on hearing pure Ottoman music, and the album is presented as a lament for the art music lost through imitation of the West.