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You will never learn enough: Michael League
Micheal League is one of the people that you are having trouble deciding where to start talking about him. He is a musician, an owner…
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”It’s insane how lucky we are” Ben Frost
The day after his performance at Sonar Istanbul, I set off for Karaköy to meet Ben Frost. When I come to the tiny park across…
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Surrealism works because there’s reality: Nisan Ceren Göknel
Interest towards theatre is pretty increased in Turkey over the recent years. The transformation in this area is observable in many ways. One by one, new…
Unframed
Nothing is real and everything is real: Bartu Küçükçağlayan
Bartu Küçükçağlayan is a special person who carries every job he has undertaken to a very high level of standards, and makes it seem very…
Music
Music Should Be Independent: Kalben
Kalben is an independent woman who has strength, is talented enough to turn her joys and traumas into creative products, at peace with herself and…
Music
Sometimes it expresses pain, sometimes it expresses longing: Shye Ben Tzur
What would happen if you were to put Radiohead’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood, Indian band The Rajathan Express and Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur in the Mehrangarh Fort in India for three weeks? The answer is Junun. The trio collective’s eponymous album recorded in the spring of 2015 strangely blends the music of the West and the East. Performing in many European cities this year, Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajathan Express will also visit Istanbul as part of Istanbul Jazz Film Festival organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. We talked to Shye Ben Tzur before his concert at Kundra, Beykoz on July 7.
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ÇIN by CEVDET EREK
“In times like these, we’re in dire need of art to grow hope, to communicate, and to open closed minds and public spaces,” says Cevdet…
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Adam Curtis
“40 years ago, there was another all-encompassing system. It was in the Soviet Union. But by the 1970s, the system was starting to crack. Russia became a society where everyone knew that what their leaders said was not real. Because they could see with their own eyes that the economy was falling along. But everybody had to play along and pretend that it was real. Because no-one could imagine any alternative. One Soviet writer called it HyperNormalisation. You were so much a part of the system, that it was impossible to see beyond it.”
Music
A Classic(al) Man: Fazıl Say
Fazıl Say begins speaking by saying “Recently we did a Nazım Hikmet night in Paris.”
Music
I’m OK Today, But Not Really
Dilara Sakpınar begins her sentence with “I was looking at old pictures the other day…” She adds, “I also listened to a few of our old records,” as she remembers a few of the songs she’s recorded in the past, looking around the studio we’re in. “I feel like I’ve grown up. It might sound like a cliché, however I feel good when I look back at that journey. It’s really nice to still continue doing music.”