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Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek @ Colos-Saal
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"description": "Derya Yıldırım is singing the song her grandmother used to sing — an old Anatolian folk\nstandard called “Hop Bico”, which roughly translates as ”Hop Around Bico”. But the\nversion Derya’s grandmother sang was different — she’d put her own slant on it. And\nDerya’s is different still — brought into the 21st century with a slow psychedelic twist and\nher own hypnotic vocals. This is by design. Derya insists that if you’re going to play an\nold folk song then you have to contribute something new, “otherwise you might as well\njust put the old record on.”\nBorn in Hamburg, Germany to Turkish parents, she grew up influenced by her family’s\nAnatolian background and the myriad of cultures in the city. Derya’s musical roots\nstarted at home playing folk music with family members. Her father pushed her to learn\nvarious instruments, beginning with the bağlama, a seven stringed Turkish lute. Then\nshe picked up the guitar, piano, and saxophone.\nAlthough she is a multi-instrumentalist, Derya always felt drawn to the sound of the\nbağlama - “there’s just something very magical about it”. With her band Grup Şimşek’s\nforthcoming album Yarın Yoksa, which translates to If There’s No Tomorrow, Derya\ncontinues her journey revitalizing Anatolian folk music and instrumentation by infusing\ntimeless melodies with a modern psychedelic flair.\nTen years ago, while participating in a community theater project, Derya met French\nmusicians Graham Mushnik and Antonin Voyant from Catapulte Records and formed\nthe band Grup Şimşek with Helen Wells, a drummer from Cape Town, South Africa\njoining in 2021. While the band is truly international, they eschew the term ‘world music’,\npreferring instead ‘outernational’ which they say suggests a sound that’s more inclusive\nor “beyond borders.” DY\u0026GS embody what defines Anatolian folk music — “You need a\ngroove and a melody, and everything around it is free.” It’s this ethos that guides the\nband’s songwriting and the way they take on Anatolian folk standards. “I believe the\nmelodies shouldn't be changed because we are responsible to preserve music in the\ncorrect way. Our versions respect the roots. It’s the same lyrics and melody, but it has a\ndifferent soul maybe.” While it’s easy to think of folk music as a music of the past, she\ninsists it’s just as important today. “Some of these poems were written hundreds of\nyears ago but they’re still relevant. This music is so important because it remains the\nvoice of the people, the minority, and the oppressed.”\nAfter self-producing multiple albums, they signed with New York’s Big Crown Records in\n2024 and teamed up with Grammy-nominated producer Leon Michels (El Michels Affair)\nfor Yarın Yoksa. The new album embodies their balance of preservation and innovation\nacross nine original compositions and three traditional folk songs. It is a record that will\nenchant any listener regardless of language barrier with Derya’s passion and\nauthenticity front and center and music too moving to deny. Yarın Yoksa is sure to\ncaptivate the hearts and minds of all those who hear it, and just wait til you experience\nthem play it live…",
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