DREAM WORKS
Sumru Ağıryürüyen - voice, mandolin
Şevket Akıncı - guitar, voice
Orçun Baştürk - synth, voice
Eda Er - synth, voice
Anıl Eraslan - cello, compositions
Volkan Ergen - percussion
Elif Canfeza Gündüz - kemençe
Zeynep Ayşe Hatipoğlu - cello
Zeynep Kaya - voice, synth
Alper Maral - bass trombone
Merve Salgar - tanbur
Tolga Tüzün - piano
I share with you this album, the first step of a long-winded quest in which I strike connections
between dream, improvisation and film, both bringing together many creative voices in
Istanbul and imagining my own dream through a collective one. The music in this album
consists of my compositions inspired by the dreams that each of the musicians in this album
had.
Furthermore, improvisations structured in different forms and recorded in different times and
places independently, are digitally joined and re-edited to evolve into a collage within a novel
composition. The recordings that were planned to be made in the Summer of 2020 were
deemed impossible to be made at the same time and place, due to the reasons we all know,
led to a quest for another form of cooperation and turned it into another kind of creative
process. Apart from the fact that the coordination of the recordings turned them into a digital
puzzle, there is another backdrop to this rapport. That is, as improvisers who know each
other well and already in contact in different groups, there are many common grounds
that our motivations meet, and a specifically ‘Istanbuler’ synergy emerges in our sounds and
voices.
Our sound journey through Istanbul will continue with a film to be completed in the coming
years. The fiction/documentary "Sound Dreams of İstanbul" which I write and direct is already
in pre-production. My eternal gratitude to my treasured friends who helped my enthusiasm
turn into collective joy and always accompanied me throughout this journey.
Recorded by Gökhan Deneç in Tarabya Cultural Academy, Sinan Sakızlı in Hayyam Studios,
Volkan Ergen, Eda Er, Zeynep Kaya, Orçun Baştürk at their homes in Istanbul, August 2020
Mixed by Alexis Baskind in Berlin, January 2022
Mastered by Burak Tamer in Istanbul, February 2022
Cover Art by Joel Grip
Graphic Design by Ezgi Keskinsoy
Released by Rumi Sounds, Berlin
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