Psychedelic Music Explosion

Anthony Hüseyin is an ever-changing, fluid, non-binary person and artist. Born in conservative Urfa and raised in Istanbul, Huseyin gave up his Turkish passport to avoid joining the army and instead did a master's degree in jazz singing in the Netherlands. After the outbreak of the Gezi protests in 2013, Anthony Hüseyin musically confronted the prevailing social and political injustices within Turkey for the first time. The songs combine house, techno and nu-disco with Türk Sanat Müzigi (Turkish Art Music), sometimes melancholic, sometimes jazzy. In them, Anthony Hüseyin pays homage to the great pop star Zeki Müren, who lived openly queer and tells of his artistic and personal search as a queer person.

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.