Psychedelic Music Explosion
Anthony Hüseyin & Karmatürji
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Moods Jazzclub Zurich
Psychedelic Music Explosion
Come join us for pre X-Mas celebrations with an extraordinary night at the Moods Jazzclub. Anthony Hüseyin, non-binary singer-songwriter, starts the night with their most recent project «O». Later, Karmatürji, a project by Berlin's queer dj icon İpek İpekçioğlu, composer and sound designer Ceyhun Kaya, and the culturally confused and multilingual multiinstrumentalist Petra Nachtmanova, will present their latest collaboration. This will be a night to remember with powerful blends of ancient Anatolian songs, Eastern European melodies, living and dead languages, electronic sounds, and mind-blowing instrumental solos on the clarinet, saxophone and synthesizer.
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Moods Jazzclub Zurich
Anthony Hüseyin
Karmatürji - İpek İpekçioğlu, Petra Nachtmanova, Ceyhun Kaya
Afterparty by İpek İpekçioğlu
Anthony Hüseyin
Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary singer-songwriter, interdisciplinary performer, and singing teacher, originally coming from Turkey, with Turkish- Kurdish and Arabic descent.
Raised in conservative Urfa in Southeastern Turkey and educated in the cities of Istanbul and Rotterdam in both classical and jazz singing. They released two albums (Safran 2012, The Lucky One 2017) and 4 singles since 2018. They taught singing for 7 years in Rotterdam Conservatory, Codarts. They won the second prize in the singer-songwriting category in The Netherlands with their second album “The Lucky One”.
In 2020 February they streamed three performances at No Musician's Land for Marina Abramovic Institute's exhibition Flux/Akış at the Sabanci Museum, Istanbul. In December 2021 Anthony presented a solo performance musical-theater piece, Potato Potahto, at Maksim Gorki Theater in Berlin.
Based on their work experience as a chef after losing their job as a teacher at the conservatory, this interactive work explored themes of labor and value hierarchies. In 2020, they received a grant from Musicboard Berlin for their third album Project O, a concept album recounting their personal and artistic quest as a queer, nonbinary
musician. Anthony have released three songs of Zeki Müren from the album O and performed at venues and festivals like Music Match Festival in Dresden, Iç Içe Festival Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin since April 2022. In May the second single “Gizli Ask” was released at Rotterdam Opera Festival. Their third single “Yıldızların Altında” was released at Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim in June, Fusion Festival in July and Pop-Kultur Berlin in
August. On the 1st of September, the 8 songs from Project O will be released during Queer Week 2022 at Maksim Gorki Theater as a trans-disciplinary performance album release followed by an extended release tour in EU and Turkey.
Karmatürji
Berlin’s DJ icon, queer-activist and producer İpek İpekçioğlu, the multi-instrumentalist, composer and sound designer Ceyhun Kaya and the culturally confused singer Petra Nachtmanova present their new and innovative collaboration: a fine and powerful mix of ancient Anatolian songs, Eastern European melodies, living and dead languages, Electronic sounds and mind-blowing instrumental solos on the Clarinet, Saxophone and Synthesizer. Inspired by poetry from the 11th century until today, poems by Yunus Emre, Omar Hayyam, Eastern European folk tales as well as modern Western poetry, Karmatürji embeds its lyrics in a soundscape of the electronic present. Petra Nachtmanova sings in Turkish, Polish, Persian and Russian mixed with English, German and even Latin. The two largest immigrant communities in Germany being from Turkey and Poland, this is a truly Berliner project reflecting the origins of the band members and the cultural landscape of the city.
İpek İpekçioğlu
Based between Berlin and Istanbul, DJ, producer, curator, queer-activist, İpek İpekçioğlu creates an extraordinarily warm, dynamic, and organic interpretation of electronic music as nu-disco, house, deep house, tech house, and minimal techno. Her music melts with the melodramatic sound of Anatolia, Orient and the Middle East and she has been pushing boundaries within the ethnic and electronic music scene for more than a decade.
The Berliner Label Katermukke released her track «Uyan Uyan, Wake up», which led the Beatport charts for several months as the most successful track. She released Bir çift Turna and Gelme Bana at Epic Istanbul/Sony Music. Her remix of Selda Bagcan’s «Gesi Baglari» was released at Majör Müzik. The Canadian Souq Records released her latest Techno track «Dame Sobh feat. Hany Mojtahedy».
İpek has performed in New York, on the desert Sahara of Mali, Salvador de Bahia, Stockholm, Marseille, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Novosibirsk, Beirut, St. Petersburg, Glasgow, Cairo, Sana’a or Shanghai etc. She has toured in Japan and has made exclusive tours throughout China.
İpek İpekçioğlu has received a German Record Critics’ Award and was named a musical and political «visionary» by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The Rolling Stonze Magazine called her a representative for «ideologically blinker-free living».
Petra Nachtmanova
Petra was born in Vienna to a Polish mother and a Czech father. Since early childhood she has been exposed to different cultures and styles of music, always searching for the connecting elements between them. Her musical paths have led her from the capital of Classical Music through Renaissance and Baroque music in England, local Chinese Pop Idol in Ningbo, Bulgarian Polyphonic choirs, Turkish Bağlama Music as far as the Persian Radif Tradition.
As a singer and as a researcher of folk music and poetry Petra focuses on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Living in Berlin since 2008 she has sung with the Bulgarian Folk Ensembles Bulgarian Voices Berlin and Peperuda, and she has been a founding member of the Berliner band Tralalka playing traditional Eastern European songs in new arrangements. Her work on Turkish Music and the Bağlama has been developing since 2010.
Petra is fluent in German, Turkish, English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish and Czech, and able to communicate and work in other related languages.
Ceyhun Kaya
Ceyhun Kaya from Istanbul captivates his audience with his improvisational talent on the clarinet, soprano saxophone and on many other instruments. He uniquely incorporates a wide variety of tunes from the Caucasus to Anatolia, and skilfully blends his very own style and background in a minimalist and contemporary fashion.
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