İlhan Erşahin’s Istanbul Sessions

In the organizer's words:

There are at least two types of musicians: Some follow a specific path that leads into the depths and into the interior. The others allow themselves to be lured onto side paths and keep taking new directions. İlhan Erşahin, born in Stockholm in 1965 to a Turkish father and a Swedish mother, definitely belongs to the second category. The saxophonist began with rock and reggae, then moved to jazz, moved to New York, played in several bands, opened up to hip-hop, dub, trip-hop and other genres to realize his hybrid ideas with Wax Poetic; he wrote film scores, founded the club Nublu in the East Village in 2002, which also gave rise to a label. His exciting Istanbul Sessions project was launched in Turkey in 2008. "The sound we were aiming for from the beginning was something like a rock-dance feel. We wanted to play instrumental music for an audience that would dance to it." How captivatingly successful this is has already been experienced here several times. Now the quartet is back with the highly acclaimed album "Mahalle".