The London debut of Gaye Su Akyol, the exciting young Turkish singer-songwriter, following her stunning performance at WOMAD Festival in 2018.
Political and traditional influences of her home country’s musical and societal history permeate her work including that of the eternally relevant Selda Bağcan.
She fuses this with nods to Nirvana and Nick Cave, backed by an impressive band, to create a distinctive folk-rock style in which sturdy bass riffs and percussion underpin distinctively Turkish melodies. To this is added a dash of electronica, and local stringed instruments including the oud, bağlama and cümbüş to get a sound that is deeply original and at once recognisable as that of a rising international star.
Nominated for Best Artist Category in the 2019 the Songlines World Music awards.
Tickets: serious.org.uk/events/gaye-su-akyol
Watch: youtu.be/h80uU2eMRLk
To end November, the trusty Jazz Cafe have booked an evening with Turkey’s female offering of psychedelia and funky-folky rock. Gaye Su Akyol has been unstoppable in the last couple of years; perhaps a peak would be playing 2018’s WOMAD. Her blend of Turkish tonality, funk, political and social sentiment…
Artists: Gaye Su Akyol
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Making her UK performance debut earlier this year at WOMAD UK, Turkish singer-songwriter and producer Gaye Su Akyol is definitely one to watch (if you haven’t already). Growing up on Anatolian pop and rock, she takes these genres along with her interest in psychedelic, surf, post-punk and electronic sounds to…
Artists: Gaye Su Akyol
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Gaye Su Akyol blends Western rock and the sounds of psychedelia with traditional Turkish-influenced melodies. A dizzying and yet strangely addictive combination, imagine finding yourself on a hallucinatory high with a herd of dancing camels in a middle-eastern desert, and this would be the perfect soundtrack. Gaye is a fresh…
Artists: Gaye Su Akyol
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