Davulun Sesi Vol.2 Release Party

In an effort to provide you better with content, I recently got a new camera. You should know that I’m a %170 beginner but I’ll hopefully be taking better photos in time…  Anyway, the first event I’ve been to since I got my new camera was the ‘Davulun Sesi Vol.2’ release party,which took place at Babylon & Babylon Lounge on February 8th. I was pleased with the footage I got at the party but when watched the videos next morning, I realised that the microphone of my camera is awful ! So, the audio quality of the videos is horrible even though I filtered it a lot.

When I first got inside Babylon, Sotu was onstage. He performed Hoodia from Davulun Sesi Vol.2 album ( free download here), Goldfish (my favourite one) as well as other tracks of his.  After Sotu, Levni took to the stage and performed Gam & sss which you can find in both Davulun Sesi Vol1 & Vol2 albums. Onra‘s performance was the last one I was able to record with the camera, so I used my phone to record the following performances and surprisingly, iphone microphone is much better than my cameras. After Onra‘s performance, Grup Ses Beats was on the stage with his mixed samples of dialogues from old Turkish movies & vinyls blended with hiphop beats. After 3am, Da Poet and Grup Ses Beats stated performing together. Kamufle was also on the stage pumping up the audience all night by accompanying the performers. Here are some photos from the performance night, I’ll post the videos very soon. Enjoy !

The Jimmy Giuffre Trio – River Chant

Artist: The Jimmy Giuffre Trio

Album: The Train and the River –> Buy album here

Song: River Chant

Genre:  Free Jazz, Cool Jazz

Quiltland – Days

London based record label Astro Dynamics recently introduced us to Quiltland and her goosebump-inducing song “Days“, along with the promise that more material will be coming this year.

Swedish producer Frida Li-Lövgren, aka Quiltland blended 80s soundscapes with speech samples to create a dark ambient vibe. When I frist listened to “Days“, it evoked similar feelings to Rob Dougan’s legendary song “Clubbed to Death” which became very popular by The Matrix.

We have to make do with “Days” for now, so stay tuned until other releases comes up!

Genre: Dark Ambient, Atmospheric Pop

Ayarkhaan – Daybir’s Song

Artist: Ayarkhaan

Album: The Sounds of the Olonkho Land

Song: Daybir’s Song

Genre: Khomus Throat Singing, Ethnic Music

Group Rhoda – Hi Rise

Group Rhoda is the solo project of synth auteur Mara Barenbaum. She started her solo project with a desire to learn the machinations of pop music.

You can get her album ‘Out of Time-Out of Touch’ here.

Artist: Group Rhoda

Album: Out of Time-Out of Touch

Song: Hi Rise

Genre: Synthpop

Bonobo – ‘The North Borders’ Out on April 1st 2013

In my very first year of university, I was walking along the corridors of the Faculty of Arts one evening, and there was music playing somewhere far away. It wasn’t unusual to hear music at night in the Faculty of Arts in my school because there were always art students burning the midnight oil.

The music got louder as I walked to find the origin of the sound. There was a room assigned to art students for displaying/exhibiting their works and I saw a black and white video reflected on the wall playing along with the music I was hearing. I waited till the end of the video just to learn whom the music belongs to. It was playing Bonobo’s Noctuary. That’s how I got familiar with his music.

It’s been almost three years since I filled my ears with Black Sands, and recently he clued us in with the first single Cirrus from his upcoming album ‘The North Borders‘ which will be released in 52 DAYS. Here’s a playlist of “my all time favourite-Bonobo” songs including his new single Cirrus, enjoy !

Javelin releasing Hi Beams !

The origins of Hip-hop and electro production duo Tom Van Buskirk & George Langford go back to the cousins’ childhoods, but today we know them as Javelin. AND, they are  coming out with a new release ‘Hi Beams‘ on March 5th !

Their first self-release ‘Jamz n Jemz‘ (2009), a cheap, computer-produced album, attracted people’s attention when the duo started to distribute it in gigs. The success of this self-release made them a member of Luaka Bop record label family. Before I knew about Javelin, I heard one of their tracks called ‘Lindsay Brohan‘ from a friend which led me to dig deeper into the duo. ‘Canyon Candy‘, a concept LP taking inspiration from their travels through the American South and West made me automatically imagine coyotes in the desert, cowboys, cactuses, and so on.

I must admit that I enjoyed their first self-release, ‘Jamz n Jemz‘ a lot even if it had a cheap production process :)  The new release, ‘Hi Beams‘ was recorded in a studio with proper machines, real microphones, and the first single “Nnormal” sounds very promising. By the way you can download  “Nnormal” by clicking here.

Here’s a my-favourite-Javelin-songs-playlist for you to prepare youselves for ‘Hi Beams’. Until March 5th, enjoy !

Fresh Beats

The second edition of Turkish beats compilation ‘Davulun Sesi Vol.2’ by ‘Tektosag Records’ is OUT NOW ! You can download the album for free here. If you come to the release party on February 8th (Friday), you’ll have the opportunity to watch live performances of leading names from Europe and Istanbul such as Sotu the Traveller, Levni, Grup Ses Beats, Da Poet, Gantz, Stiver, Kamufle and more…

Onra will also be there as the headline of the party, SO get your tickets now before they are sold out !