A performative presentation on Saadet Türköz’s artistic and experimental practice.
Saadet Türköz is a Kazakh-Turkish singer, composer and a shiatsu therapist who currently lives in Switzerland. Her ancestors were nomads who migrated from Semey in Kazakhstan to East Turkestan from where they fled via India and Pakistan to Istanbul. Türköz’s first recordings were influenced by the folk music of her homeland, East Turkestan; in recent years, her repertoire has widened to include improvised music and modern interpretations of Turkish and Kazakh music. New music became increasingly important to her and she began to feel at home and understood in Zurich’s eclectic free music scene. Türköz recorded her album "Kumuska" with the American composer and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp (b.1951), the great artist of the world of electric, metallic, raw sounds as well as complex and groovy rhythms. By now they are trusted partners, having known each other since the 1990’s and first recorded together on the album Marmara Sea. Jazz critic Manfred Papst writes in the liner notes: “Saadet Türköz is a charismatic shaman certainly, but not the pompous kind. She has a sense of humour, and even when her head is in the clouds, her feet are on the ground. The words and sounds illuminate daily life.” www.saadet.ch
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