Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Venue:Damrosch Park Bandshell’s Lincoln Center (W. 62nd Street, b/w Amsterdam & Columbus Aves, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: from Turkish pops to traditional music to Jazz
Presented by Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede Supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism
Istanbulive is back for a fourth year this summer. Istanbulive IV will debut at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on Saturday July 28, 2012. In order to make this year’s Istanbulive the best to date, the producers invite you to participate in their $10,000 donation campaign at Kickstarter.com. The additional funding will help cover the extensive production and marketing expenses
Istanbulive exposes the diversity and extraordinary virtuosity found in Turkish music today and for this fourth installment, we are very excited to present to you the world renowned folk and protest music legend, Selda Bağcan, the oriental jazz of Ilhan Erşahin’s Wonderland featuring Hüsnü Şenlendirici and The Secret Trio, and an incredibly talented new band formed by Ara Dinkjian, Ismail Lumanovski and Tamer Pınarbaşı.
About the artists
SELDA BAĞCAN
“Selda: the Anatolian Joan Baez” – The Observer UK
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.
ILHAN ERŞAHIN’s WONDERLAND feat. 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.
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.
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