NYC Jazz Record reviews the latest Mark A. Lotz & Islak Köpek album
The October issue of New York City Jazz Record has a very good review of the Mark Lotz & Islak Köpek album Istanbul Improv Sessions May 4th by Tom Greenland. Berlin-born, Den Haag-based flutist...
View ArticleSerra Yılmaz & Islak Köpek @ Akbank Jazz Festival
Serra Yılmaz (photo by Cem Talu) Korhan Erel’s free improvisation ensemble Islak Köpek continues their collaboration with actress Serra Yılmaz with a concert in the Akbank Jazz Festival, which is...
View ArticleConcerts in Germany: Soundtrips, Lettow/Erel/Erol, Honsinger/Fariello/Erel/İleri
Soundtrips This November, Korhan Erel will be playing six concerts with cellist/bandmate Gülşah Erol in the Soundtrips concert series curated by Simon Camatta, Gunda Gottschalk, Erhard Hirt, Paul...
View ArticleErel, Furuya, Lanfredini, Merlet at Gitar Cafe, November 29
On November 29, I will be playing with three very exciting improvisers at Gitar Cafe. This is a meeting that was built from chance meetings. I met Nobuyasu Furuya, wind player based in Japan, on...
View ArticleSong Books: Reimagining John Cage at 100
New York violist Tanya Kalmanovitch directs an all-star cast of American and Turkish performers in radical and wide-ranging interpretations of the composer’s notebooks at the Borusan Music House,...
View ArticleViewpoint: Ağıryürüyen, Erel, Gürkal / Özgür Müzik: free improv gathering @...
Sumru Ağıryürüyen (voice), Korhan Erel (computer, controllers), Giray Gürkal (electric guitar, effects) will present an evening of solo, duo and trio improvisations at Gitar Cafe, where they will...
View Articlesa.ne.na and korhan erel “coming together” / january 26
“Coming Together” Where contemporary beats the dance floor. Istanbul-based percussion ensemble sa.ne.na team up with electronic musician Korhan Erel for a night of danceable beats. This show has lots...
View ArticleIslak Köpek with Sumru Ağıryürüyen, Seda Röder and Korhan Erel
Islak KöpekPhoto by Ali Taşkıran Istanbul-based free improvisation ensemble Islak Köpek curates bi-monthly evenings of freely improvised music at Gitar Cafe where they invite several musicians. This...
View ArticleNatalia Mann, İzzet Kızıl, Alper Yılmaz, Korhan Erel at Alt
I will be playing a concert of improvised music with Natalia Mann (harp), İzzet Kızıl (percussion) and Alper Yılmaz (electric bass) at Alt, one of Istanbul’s new jazz clubs. The first half of the...
View ArticleMarch 23: Başak Yavuz Quintet at 60m2
Başak Yavuz I have recently joined jazz vocalist/composer Başak Yavuz’s jazz group, turning it into a quintet. Başak’s music, to me, has a feeling of tranquility as well as openness towards...
View ArticleKorhan Erel, Gülşah Erol, Gunnar Lettow @ Quiet Cue, Berlin, 10.11.12
The last concert of my Germany tour with Gülşah Erol was a performance at Berlin’s progressive music space Quiet Cue on November 10, 2012. Even though Gülşah and I were exhausted after 9 concerts in...
View ArticleChen, Ağıryürüyen, Akıncı, Gürkal, Erel at Cafe Mitanni, April 5, 2013
Korhan Erel will play with American-Chinese cello, voice and electronics artist Audrey Chen and his improviser friends at Cafe Mitanni, a small, cosy jazz venue on one of the bustling streets of...
View ArticleA Midspring Night’s Improvisation
Mural in Istanbul, reinterpreted by İlknur Ayışık Mark Alban Lotz, Utrecht-based flute player and improviser, who is also the other half of the Lotz/Erel duo, will be in Istanbul from April 26th...
View ArticleMay 2, 2013: Mark Alban Lotz & Islak Köpek at Gitar Cafe
Mark Alban Lotz is an Utrecht-based flute player and improviser who is also quite well known in Turkey as a jazz player and improviser. He had come to Istanbul in 2010 to make two recordings with...
View ArticleAğıryürüyen, Akıncı, Eraslan, Erel @ Gitar Cafe, August 22, 2013
(L-R) Akıncı, Ağıryürüyen, Erel, Anıl in front of a toilet in Russia, 2010 Four heavyweights of the Turkish free improvisation scene come together for a summer night’s free improvisation concert on...
View ArticleAudrey Chen, Korhan Erel, Giray Gürkal at BOEHMERSExhibition, Berlin
Audrey Chen (cello), Korhan Erel (computer, controllers) and Giray Gürkal (electric guitar, effects) will play an improvised set at BOEHMERSExhibition, Berlin on September 27, only a few hours before...
View ArticleIstanPOOL in the Netherlands, September – October 2013
IstanPOOL is a brand new collective of musicians from Turkey and the Netherlands in a setting of two wind instruments, two guitars and two laptops: Michael Moore & Mark Alban Lotz (winds), Korhan...
View ArticleSaadet Türköz, Florent Merlet, Korhan Erel at Gitar Cafe, Istanbul
Saadet Türköz I will play a free-improvisation set with Zurich-based Kazakh/Turkish singer Saadet Türköz and Istanbul-based drummer Florent Merlet at Gitar Cafe on October 10, 2013. The concert will...
View ArticleOct 23 – Solothurnmann, Ağıryürüyen, Akıncı, Vural, Erel at Gitarcafe
The Swiss saxophonist, music critic and Jürg Solothurnmann will play a series of concerts in Istanbul in the last week of October. One of these concerts is with Korhan Erel (computer, controllers),...
View ArticleLettow / Erel duo in Hannover and Hamburg, November 7-8
Lettow / Erel Duo is Gunnar Lettow (prepared electric bass, objects, electronics) and Korhan Erel (computer, controllers). Lettow and Erel build a fragile, fascinating, abstract sound world with...
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