Korhan Erel will play a concert with an amazing line-up of musicians on March 13 at quiet cue. The quartet consists of Elliott Sharp on guitar, David Rothenberg on clarinets and electronics, Lass-Marc Riek on field recordings and Korhan on computer and controllers. This quartet has already played once in Berlin in May 2015 in the launch event of the book “Animal Music – Sound & Song in the Natural World”, which was published on Strange Attractor and features a CD compiled by the sound art/field recording label Gruenrekorder.
The recording of the concert in 2015 is released on the netlabel tokafi as the digital album “Animal Music”. The proceeds will go to a charity to be determined later.
https://tokafi.bandcamp.com/album/animal-music-live-at-j-r
Antje Vowinckel and Korhan Erel have been working and playing together since the summer of 2014. Starting out as an improvising duo, they have evolved their playing into a performance of political satire, where they teach each other words in German and Turkish, in the name of “Privilegierte Partnerschaft”, privileged partnership, which is German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposal for Turkey instead of full membership.
Korhan Erel will play only two concerts in January 2016, both of which will be in Berlin. The first one will be a celebration of the anniversary of cellist friend Uygur Vural’s first concert in Berlin at Miss Hecker. Besides Korhan, Uygur has invited violinist Biliana Voutchkova and clarinetist Michael Thieke, who was in the line up of the original concert with Korhan. The concert will be at Miss Hecker on January 9, 2016, exactly one year after the original concert. There will be some snacks too!
