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Aynur Doğan
Aynur is one of the most prominent Kurdish singers of our time. Her powerful voice and extraordinary interpretation bring the treasures of Kurdish folk traditions into harmony with modern sounds, creating a timeless musical language that connects generations and cultures.
Her albums, among the best-selling Kurdish folk records, have been praised in international media such as Songlines, fRoots, The Guardian, El País, and FAZ. She has collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, Riccardo Muti, Kayhan Kalhor, Javier Limón, and the Nederland Blazers Ensemble.
Aynur’s work has also appeared in Fatih Akın’s documentary Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul and Morgan Neville’s The Music of Strangers. She has received major honors including the Berklee Mediterranean Music Master Award (2017) and the WOMEX Artist Award (2021) for her role in preserving and reimagining Kurdish music for a global audience.
THE SECRET TRIO
The Secret Trio is made up of three astounding musicians who came together to create a new type of chamber music, combining the elements of sound, texture and rhythm with new and interesting approaches to their instruments. Not bound to a single tradition, they perform a collection of original pieces and traditional melodies that fuses the microtonal modes and improvisation of the Middle East, dance beats of the Balkans, and elements of jazz, Rock, classical and world music. The delicate harmonies, rapid-fire synchrony and intricate counterpoint developed by a trio of musicians with separate roots in Turkish, Armenian and Macedonian Roma music is extraordinary.
By inventing new ways to play percussively on fundamentally melodic instruments, the Secret Trio, full of rhythm and drive, harmony and counterpoint, never sounds like only three instruments. In that the energy of live music is essential to the ensemble’s ideology, this recording was made without the use of any overdubs in order to capture the excitement of their live concerts.
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