Istanbul Ghetto Club is an anonymous art initiative from Berlin's underground scene. With modular synthesizers and the bağlama, the collective produces ecstatic blends of acid and psych, raw and punky at times. They call the result acid-techno-folklore.
With jazzhane
- 04.07.2024 jazzhane Festival 2024, Rote Fabrik Zurich
About
Istanbul Ghetto Club is an anonymous art initiative that emerges from Berlin’s widely-recognized underground and avant-garde scene. Equipped with modular synthesizers and the traditional Anatolian Bağlama, the collective produces ecstatic tunes with blends of acid and psych. Their performances are witty, raw, and punky at times, and just as the city Berlin, they embody many fields of tension.
In the collective’s own words, the band formed when fictional Kamil, the Bağlama virtuoso, and Mahmut were thrown out of a Pavyon (a live music bar mainly visited by men to swim in different oceans): one didn’t fit the Pavyon scene, got into serious trouble, the other naively went to help, both ended up being beaten and kicked out of the Pavyon.
Left with a broken Bağlama and almost nothing, they visit a Çorbacı, a place one usually goes for traditional soup after a fun night out. Mahmut tells Kamil he is into electronic music, Kamil believes he can contribute with his beloved Bağlama, they decide to give it a try, the result is a peculiar mix of acid-techno-folklore: it does feel just like a tasty Çorba after a fun night out.