Mmm – Music, Mystic, Meanings… Balkan Mix
Drawings and Sounds From Two Continents

A video presentation of Ceren Oykut, talks and life music with Baba Zula
With the participation of Baba Zula' musicians Murat Ertel, Levent Akman, Cosar Kamci, Mehmet Atec and Jennet Shook and their manager for Bulgaria Ekrem Ozgur.

More information for Baba Zula
By mixing oriental instruments such as the darbuka, electric saz, and spoons with electronics and modern sounds, Baba Zula creates a sound all their own called "Oriental Dub".
Baba Zula's music is in fact rock'n roll that rolls in a way that westerners have not heard since the late 1960s rock epoch. Baba Zula share their legacy with us through their music, a music born out of Istanbul and influenced by the memories of Istanbul passed on to them from generations past.
Their fourth album Duble Oryantal, which was released on Doublemoon Records in May of 2005, reunited them with mix-master Mad Professor, Sly & Robbie and Alexander Hacke and reflects the culmination of years of fearless musical adventuring, and as usual there is a talented and eclectic supporting cast.
On the 2007 release, Roots, Baba Zula return to their original format as a trio and only the core members of the BaBa Zula family, such as vocalist Brenna MacCrimmon, can be heard on only one song. The group also show off a new perspective on their trademark sound "oriental dub", courtesy of the group's first trip to Japan in the spring of 2007, where they befriended a Japanese sound engineer.



The links between Baba Zula and cinema and theatre is quite essential.
Baba Zula's debut album, Tabutta Rovasata ( Sommersault in the Coffin - 1996) (re-released by Kadraj in 2006) includes the original music score for Dervis Zaim’s first movie.
Baba Zula's album, Three Plays from Seventeen pieces (Doublemoon Records) comprising music created for the plays “The Little Prince”, “Frog Tales” by Arnold Lobel and Kitchen Accidents by Periha Magden, was released in 1999. Along with a number of other artists, Ralph Carney, Brenna McCrimmon and Selim Sesler also took part in this album as guest stars. Baba Zula also made the music for the film Renkli Turkce (Colored and in Turkish), directed by Ahmed Cadirci. Their third album Psychebelly Dance Music, released in May 2003, was mixed and mastered by the British musician and producer Mad Professor, who previously worked with Massive Attack, The Orb and Lee Perry.

Their fourth album Duble Oryantal, which was released on Doublemoon Records in May of 2005, reunited them with mix-master Mad Professor, Sly & Robbie and Alexander Hacke and reflects the culmination of years of fearless musical adventuring, and as usual there is a talented and eclectic supporting cast.
On the 2007 release, Roots, Baba Zula return to their original format as a trio and only the core members of the BaBa Zula family, such as vocalist Brenna MacCrimmon, can be heard on only one song. The group also show off a new perspective on their trademark sound "oriental dub", courtesy of the group's first trip to Japan in the spring of 2007, where they befriended a Japanese sound engineer.

More information at:
http://www.babazula.com

Ceren Oykut (1978, Istanbul) is an artist produces multidisciplinary projects, which
blend sound and visual representation modes through drawings on urban cultures Her drawings were presented in various magazines such as L-inc, Kontrol, Roll, and Fuct-D. She also works with a music band called “Baba Zula” and a collective called
“Anabala” by creating and rendering projected digital images in real time on the
stage. She contributed to many projects in Turkey, Belgium, Germany, Austria,
Serbia and Montenegro, and Egypt. Oykut lives and works in Istanbul.

Solo Exhibitions
- “Musical Drawings” Karaburun Festival (Izmir, 2006)
-“City Can- Kustepe Branch” Under Construction Contemporary Art Center,
(Kustepe, Istanbul, 2006)
-“City Can” Under Construction Contemporary Art Center (Maltepe, Istanbul,
2005)
-“Utopia” Karaburun Festival (Izmir, 2005)

Selected group exhibitions
- “Allah Korkusu” , Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul2007
- “light, Illuminatyon and Electricity” curated by Basak Senova, Energy Museum,
(Santral Istanbul, 2007)
- “Slow Space Fast Pace” an exhibition in public space, curated by Rana Ozturk,
Patrick street no 23 Shandon (Cork, Ireland, 2007)
- “2+1” a project by Apartment Project, Selda Asal, Neriman Polat, Ceren Oykut,
10th International Istanbul Biennal (Santral Istanbul, 2007)
- “Hafriyat Karakoy” Hafriyat Group Exhibition, Karakoy, Istanbul2007
-From Owner with Wiew", group exhibition curated by Derya Yucel
(Ortakoy, Istanbul, 2007)
-"Nothing is going to be allright" Apartment Project (Istanbul, 2007)
-"Ardindan Degil Karsisina", curated by Ovul Durmusoglu,
Radikal Newspaper, street exhibition (Istanbul, 2007)
- "Everything's Gonna be Allright" Apartment Project,Istanbul2006
- “Rejection Episodes", curated by Basak Senova, Arts Centre Vooruit, De Centraale,
(Ghent, 2006)
- “Yerel Cennet” (Local Heaven) Hafriyat Group Exhibition (Diyarbakir, 2006)
- "Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair", Lutfi Kirdar Fair Center (Istanbul, 2006)
- “Topkapi” Spedition (Bremen, 2006)
- "All About Lies" Apartment Project (Istanbul, 2006)
- “Postcards from Stokholm/Istanbul” colaboration with Selda Asal, Botkyrka
Konsthall (Stokholm, 2006)
- “Istanbul Defterdarlari” Karsi Sanat Calismalar (Istanbul, 2006)
- "Project:Production Fault",Hafriyat Group Exhibition,Antrepo5, Istanbul2005
-“Young Art Europe” Museum of Young Art, (Wien, 2005)
-“Ocu” Neurotitan (Berlin, 2005)
-"The Thieving City" Akbank Culture and Art Center
curated by Levent Calykoрlu (Istanbul, 2005)
-"Tele-City" Siemens Art Center, organisation by Nomad (Istanbul,
2005)

Residences
- “Light, llumination and Electricity” residency project (Santral Istanbul, 2007)
- “Topkapy”, Spedition (Bremen, 2006)
- “Open Sound Studio” with Anabala, Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, 2006)
- K-34 Koln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,
hosted by Stad Koln (Koln, 2005)
- K-34 Koln/Istanbul Partnership Project, Turkis-German artists colaboration,
hosted by Stad Koln (Koln, 2004)

Printed Projects
- “Nisan” (Istanbul, 1986)
- Roll Music Magazine (Istanbul, 2005-2006)

More information at:
www.cerenoykut.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/cerenoykut
www.myspace.com/anabala
www.cerenoykut.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/cerenoykut
http://slowspacefastpace.googlepages.com/cerenoykut2
http://www.youniverses.com/nice_kids/bienal_abt_prjct.html

March 17 (Monday) 2008, 7 p.m.
Red hall
In Turkish and English with simultaneous interpretation in Bulgarian.
Tickets: 7 BGN

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