Selda Bağcan
"Selda: the Anatolian Joan Baez" - The Observer UK
"She’s a woman on a mission. … deserve[s] to be sought out" - Popmatters.com
"A deep well of musical exploration." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
"An incredible vocal performance from this once-banned Turkish singer." - Marissa Nadler
A pioneer of the Turkish folk, funk and Anatolian rock scene since the 1970s, SELDA BAĞCAN’s music and fame has reached universal heights today – it is sampled by major rap superstars (Mos Def), is featured in video games (Electronic Arts’ SKATE 2) and appears in popular TV series like Beverly Hills 90210. Her fans include members of Interpol, Marissa Nadler, Chelsea Wolfe, French director Vincent Moon and Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, who remarked, “The artist I've been listening to more than anybody else is Selda, the Turkish singer … she's kind of like the voice of the people.” Selda has been placed on the seminal “Women in World Music” list (compiled by KPFA radio) alongside Edith Piaf, Mercedes Sosa, Maria Callas and Billie Holiday.
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Ilhan Erşahin’s Wonderland featuring Hüsnü Şenlendirici
"A collision-free mix between electronica, jazz and oriental music, with rich melodies that reveal the intrinsic magic of each instrument."
Seasoned musician ILHAN ERŞAHIN is known for his leftfield jazz, improv and electronic projects like Wax Poetic, Istanbul Sessions, as well as birthing the Nublu scene, a club he owns on the Lower East Side. On his latest project WONDERLAND, he adds oriental instruments like the kanun, darbuka and clarinet to jazz music's more conventional trio - saxophone, bass and drums - to create a world fusion of the highest order, alongside heavyweight clarinet maestro, HÜSNÜ ŞENLENDIRICI who adds a Gypsy touch to Erşahin’s urban music stylings alternative
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The Secret Trio
"Traditional melodies that fuse improvisation of the Middle East, dance beats of the Balkans, and elements of jazz, rock, classical & world music."
THE SECRET TRIO is a mesmerizing new band with established musicians that play authentically Mediterranean and Turkish music. It features world-renowned composer/oud master ARA DINKJIAN, clarinet prodigy ISMAIL LUMANOVSKI and kanun virtuoso TAMER PINARBAŞI. The delicate harmonies and intricate counterpoint developed by this trio of musicians with separate roots in Turkish, Armenian and Macedonian Roma music is extraordinary. The trio has invented new ways to play percussively on fundamentally melodic instruments, and as a result the ensemble, which is full of rhythm and drive, never sounds like merely three instruments.
Istanbulive IV is dedicated to Ilhan Mimaroğlu
ILHAN MIMAROGLU is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 11, 1926, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore. During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky and on occasions worked with Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. He is an electronic music composer, and also was the producer for Charles Mingus' Changes One and Changes Two, as well as Federico Fellini's Satyricon. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records and collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy in the same year. His notable students include Ingram Marshall.
