TURKEY

Eren Alkan

Kökler Filizleniyor / Ais Ezhel

He was born in 1986 and has started his professional music career when he was 18. Created music in the style of ska/punk/reggae with his band ‘Dengesiz Herifler’, which disbanded in 2013 after releasing the album ‘Sıfır’ in 2011, and performing hundreds of times on various venues and festivals including lead music festivals such as Rock ‘n Coke, and Efes Pilsen One Love Festival etc. He enhanced his musical career by collaborating with Ais Ezhel and started creating music with ‘Kökler Filizleniyor’, which he defines as his turning point in his musical career. The band whose genres range from reggae, hip hop, R&B and rock, combines their style with folk essences of nations of Anatolia and beyond. He is currently working on 2 separate album projects that are projected to be released in 2017. In the meantime, he has been creating music for various art organizations, movies and advertisements. In 2016, Eren also revamped the ‘Ankara Davul Odası’ project, which he has been continuing for 10 years now with a large team of musicians as a musical instructor, and continues working with a variety of musicians, and instructing curious musical minds. Besides all these projects, he is also associated with Hooyar Ensemble which performs Persian mystic yaarsan and sufi music. His biggest inspiration sources to this day have been so far have been The Police, Manu Chao, Bob Marley, Neşet Ertaş, Dire Straits, Faith No More, The Flashbulb, and Mutemath.

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