Zeki Müren was a prominent Turkish classical singer, composer and actor from 60s to 90’s. With his flamboyant clothes, heavy makeup, stage presence, gestures and well-delivered speeches, he is one of the most influential figures in Turkey’s musical history and still one of the country’s strongest icons.
While Selda Bağcan was getting ready to rock the world with the surf rock tuba driven power trio Boom Pam and Gaye Su Akyol was riding the success of her debut album "Develerle Yaşıyorum", the idea of bringing these two women together for a conversation thrilled us...
We spoke to a few activists that are participating in Agora99, a network aiming at connecting various local struggles around Europe.
Associate professor Ferit Öztürk, Asya Saydam and Serkan Kaptan answered our questions about healthy food and running Bükoop.
A cynical discourse, some acidic humour and a lot of nonsense, all of which are usual suspects of political criticism... Here is our chat with The ABC Manifesto, one of the actors of the second Istanbul Design Biennial, on the irrelevancy of manifestos, post-Gezi and creative political struggle.
The brand new Deerhoof album "La Isla Bonita" in details with the band's singer and bass player Satomi Matsuzaki.
John Robb spoke to Blixa Bargeld celebrating Einsturzende Neubauten’s latest album “Lament”. This is the Louder Than War interview that was released on louderthanwar.com on October 31, 2014.
End-of-the-summer chat with the Los Angeles-based artist Dorian Wood from the first song of his first album to the last song of his latest album, touching on many subjects including queer art, elephants, nightmares and racist antique figures.
“Why don’t you all f-f-f-fade away?” – The Who.