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iKi Muzik

an independent record label of contemporary music!

 

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Barış Dağhan
continuité

Out on April 2, 2024


Flute : Göksu Hazal Subaşı
Bass Clarinet : Yiğit Yüksel
Bassoon : Ada Banu Kara
Trombone : Altay Acar
Violin I : Buse Kademli
Violin II : Aylin İdil İrey
Viola : Barış Dere
Cello : Gül Sıvacı

All composed by Barış Dağhan


Recording Engineer : Sinan Sakızlı
Mixing, Mastering : Can Kuman
Recorded at Hayyam Studios, Istanbul.

Nobody Presents
Out on February 14, 2024

Ali Onur Olgun - saxophones, piano on ‘buggy choke’

Kerem Can Dündar - electric guitar

Mehmet Ali Şimayli - drums, percussion

 

Ege Şahin - electronics and field recording on ‘eye stone’

 

Recorded at Hayyam Studios by Ceylan Akçar, July 2023

Mixed and mastered by Can Kuman

Cover art and design by Ozan Aktuna

 

Gathered together for sharing the unease and making up proverbs which would go well together in the  summer of twenty-twenty-three Istanbul. Aiming to spread it in the spectrum of flammable entertai*ment by making sounds and faces that make us feel like rockstars and functioning human beings for a second. These textures that might philosophically contradict with any kind of musical ideology or trigger some kind of tension in the body can also please some ordinary people such as Ali Onur Olgun on reeds, Kerem Can Dündar on electric guitar and pedals, and Mehmet Ali Şimayli on drums and objects; who take chances on shouting it out loud which makes what they say riskier in the eyes of old preachers.

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2024 : New pocket seminar by 
Selen Gülün 

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

 

Pianist, composer, educator Selen Gülün explains the history of jazz from the perspective of an active musician in the field, from the beginning to the present, in a four-week seminar designed as an entertaining, immersive and instructive journey.

 

The seminar will take place online from Zoom between at 9 PM local time in Turkey on Tuesdays, 9-16-23-30 January. Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for a week.

Please write to selengulun@ikimuzik.com for participating or more information. 

 

*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

For watching excerpts from 2023's seminar on YouTube click on the poster!

New Single from Marcello Allulli & Selen Gulun
Una Serata Sbagliata

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Una Serata Sbagliata is a composition of Italian composer and saxophonist Marcello Allulli. Longtime friendship of Allulli and Turkish composer, pianist and singer Selen Gülün led the musicians come together and record this lyrical ballad tune in a studio at Rome, 2017 at the end of their concert tour. Emphasize this multicultural collaboration Selen Gülün wrote an additional Turkish lyrics for the end of this beautiful song and sang during the recording.

Credits:
Releases September 22, 2023
Marcello Allulli, tenor sax
Selen Gülün, vocal, piano

Recorded Live at the studio Rome, Giuseppe Nuccia (Nuccia)
Turkish vocals recorded by Halil İbrahim Işık, Keyboard Istanbul
Mixed by Halil İbrahim Işık
Mastered by Erim Arkman
Cover photo by Zeynep Özkanca

Listen at Spotify by clicking on the image

GÜLÜN / ALLULLI / DE RAYMONDI 
KAPI

 

Longtime friendship of Marcello Allulli, Emanuele de Raymondi, and Selen Gülün led the three musicians to come together and create this multicultural project.
 
As it took a few years to complete the album, the music in KAPI is the result of many layers of time, travels, places, and experiences. Through real teamwork, each of the compositions found their deeper soul. They recorded the album live in Istanbul in February 2015 at the Bilgi University Music studios. 
 
KAPI, which means “door” in Turkish, was published by the Italian label EvArt – Arte ed Eventi in November 2016. Throughout the years, Trio opened the “door” for future interdisciplinary collaborations, shared the stage in  Rome, Istanbul and Japan with many great musicians, and visual artists. 

The digital version of the album is re-released by iKi Muzik on August 30, 2023

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New pocket seminar series
by Selen Gülün 


The Golden Years Of Jazz: 50s

The 10-year period that started after the release of Miles Davis's 'Birth Of The Cool' album forms the modern language of jazz. Within 10 years, the most important movements of jazz music such as hard bop, free jazz, and modal jazz were originated by legendary musicians such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and the most important albums of history were released one after another. As writer Steinberger puts it, “Jazz, as a serious and enduring form of art, is essentially a phenomenon of the American 50’s: to understand jazz is to understand the 50’s, and to understand the 50’s is to understand jazz.”

In this 4-week pocket seminar organized by Selen Gülün on behalf of iKi Muzik, we will get to know the currents, musicians and important albums of the period, and embark on an entertaining and instructive journey that is told in depth from the perspective of a jazz musician.

We will meet with Zoom between 20-27.06, 4-11.07, Tuesday, 21.00-22.30.  Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for 48 hours.

*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

Anyone who wants to know jazz music can join.
Klick HERE for participating!




Traces of Women in Music

In this inspiring seminar designed by Selen Gülün, we will explore the leading role of women in the world of music, celebrate their creativity, courage and their impact on the universal language of music.

For 4 weeks, we will trace the unique musical journeys of female musicians in music history, while also discussing the impact of music on gender and discussing the challenges women face in the music industry. In the last seminar, we will listen to the impressive stories and experiences of our guest artists.

Let's explore together the impressive works and performances of influential female artists from jazz to classical music, popular music to world music
.

The seminar will take place online from Zoom between at 9 PM local time in Turkey on Tuesdays, 16-23-30 May, 6 June. Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for 48 hours.
*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

Klick HERE for participating!


What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

Pianist, composer, educator Selen Gülün explains the history of jazz from the perspective of an active musician in the field, from the beginning to the present, in a four-week seminar designed as an entertaining, immersive and instructive journey.

The seminar will take place online from Zoom between at 9 PM local time in Turkey on Tuesdays, 4-11-18-25 April. Sessions will be recorded and the recordings can be watched by the participants for 48 hours.

*The seminar will be held in Turkish.

Serhan Erkol's new single Mediterrano
Out on December 16, 2022. 

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The first album of Selen Gülün's azure jazz orchestra
Blue Band meets the audience

OUT
November 18, 2022

click on the image to listen the whole album at bandcamp

Blue Band is an orchestra formed by Selen Gülün with the combination of 3 wind, 3 brass instruments and a standart piano trio as rhythm section. In Blue Band performances, you can come across traces of contemporary music, a standard jazz orchestra style with swings, sections with collective improvisations, sweet melodies, strong harmonies. Selen Gulun composes in care for each performer to reveal their characters in music. The use of instruments in different combinations, such as sextet, septet, octet and nonet in compositions, ensures that the performance takes place in a colorful atmosphere from beginning to end.

 

Composer and pianist Selen Gülün is an artist who has stood out from other contemporary musicians with her innovative and leading identity in all her music works and has made a place for herself in Turkish music history. Her works were performed in various parts of the world. With the awards she received, she lived and worked in Rome, New York, Boston, London and Tokyo, took the stage with great artists at important stages and festivals. Her music and life was covered and followed by the world's leading media mediums such as Downbeat, New York Times, Herald Tribune, and BBC Radio 3. Her trio album “Answers” peaked at number 6 on the Japanese Jazz charts, and her song album "Baska” peaked at number 4.

At Blue Band concerts, Gülün performs works that go beyond the Classical Jazz Orchestra format, composed by considering the harmony of written and improvised music. Selen Gülün conducts this magnificent orchestra, each of which consists of most valuable musicians of Turkish Jazz scene, and takes the stage together. Until now, Blue Band has given concerts at Borusan Music House, Bova and Zorlu PSM Touche in Istanbul. 

Musicians:

 

Barış Doğukan Yazıcı, Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Halil İbrahim Işık, Trumpet

Bulut Gülen, Trombone

Serhan Erkol, Alto Sax, Soprano Sax

Engin Recepoğulları, Tenor Sax

Barış Ertürk, Bariton Sax, Bass Clarinet

 

Selen Gülün, Piano

Ozan Musluoğlu, Contrabass

(*Alper Yılmaz, Electric Bass, #3)

Berke Özgümüş, Drums

Recorded live by Sinan Sakızlı and Ceylan Akçar at Hayyam Studios on May 14-15, 2022.

Mixed by Emre Malikler

Mastering by Jordi Vidal Franch

Album Art work, Özgür Rakıcıyan

Cover designed by Berk Çakmakçı.

Tolga Tüzün's new album Phoenix is out on Friday,  Aug 13 2021 
Click on the image to listen the full album on Spotify. 

Selen Gülün - TRE is out!
Contemporary Ensemble music recorded live at Berlin, 2011.

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to order on bandcamp in best audio quality.

Deniz Güngören 5tet's single
Kimseye Etmem Şikayet

Selen Gülün's single Daha Yavaş was released on December 18, 2020!
There are two tracks in this single. Daha Yavaş is a free improvisational solo piano piece, and Slower is an electro-acoustic re-work by Emre Malikler. 

Deniz Güngören 5'tet single
Zülüf out on November 27, 2020!

You can listen Selen Gülün's free improvisational solo piano single Yavaş on Bandcamp, and every digital platforms!

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