Turkish Music Bands & Artists.

Ladies and Gentleman, may I present to you Ayhan Sicimoglu! As an energetic young lad at the Tarsus American High School Ayhan Sicimoglu gained a reputation for being a solid drummer. With an insatiable thirst for projects that involved rhythm, Ayhan found himself playing with Miguel Serigides in London..

Baba Zula

Masters of the Oriental Dub: Baba Zula's specifically unique sound created by melding traditional Turkish musical instruments with electronic elements, has brought a brand new dimension to Turkish Folk Music. Baba Zula's music is basically an amalgamation..

Burhan Ocal

World-renowned Turkish multi-instrumentalist Burhan Ocal, a peerless finger drum musician. Burhan Ocal has spent his career bridging the musical cultures of East and West, ancient and modern..

Husnu Senlendirici

Husnu Senlendirici comes from a family of musicians from the Turkish Aegean coastal town of Bergama, where local Roma musicians play for local inhabitants of different ethnic groups.

Laco Tayfa (Laço Tayfa)

Laco Tayfa represents a new synthesis within the Turkish Roma (Gypsy) tradition. Under the leardership of clarinetist Husnu Senlendirici, Laco Tayfa brings Turkish regional folk music into dialogue with contemporary world music styles,

Mercan Dede - Arkin Allen

Mercan Dede believes that when you put digital, electronic sounds together with hand-made, human ones, you can create universal language, capable of uniting old and young, ancient and modern, East and West.

Orhan Osman

Born in Germany in 1976, Orhan Osman began his journey as a musician in Greece and spent many years cultivating his unique sound in the United States and Bulgaria as well as on stages in France, Germany, and Kazakhstan.

Orient Expressions

Istanbul based Orient Expressions is a collaboration between Can Utkan aka Dj Yakuza, Cem Yildiz, and Richard Hamer. The threesome combines electrophonic sensibilities with Turkish Folk / Alevi song and instrumental forms to render a well-in...

Replikas

Replikas is a band in Turkey which was formed in 1993 by Gökçe Akçelik, Barkin Engin and Orçun Bastürk. The Band's line-up was completed when Selçuk Artut and Erden Özer Yalçýnkaya joined in 1998 and 2000.

Selim Sesler

Selim Sesler was born into a professional reed horn family in 1957 in Kesan, a village located in Edirne. After the population exchanges of 1923, Selim Sesler's family moved from Greece to Turkey and settled in an enclave of Kesan called Ibriktepe where they lived in the Yeni Mescit neighborhood.