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About Me


Professional oud player of 14 years and audio engineer for 11 years. Currently am directing the group Nerelisin, and also mixing a number of Turkish and American albums. Always open to interesting new performance opportunities, both for electric (ambient/industrial) ud and for traditional (Anadolu halk muzigi) styles.
Musical inspirations:
Coil, Legendary Pink Dots, Captain Beefheart, Il Balleto Di Bronzo, Nizamettin Ariç, Ciwan Haco, Hasret Gültekin, Erkan Ogur, International Observer, Pole, :Zoviet-France:, Steve Roach, Zeki Müren, Mohammed Reza Shajarian, Ulas Ozdemir, Dertli Divani. Currently listening to a lot of Alevi music.
Important surreal films:
El Topo, Santa Sangre, The Holy Mountain, Le Age D'Or, Un Chien Anadolu, Tuvalu, Chappaqua, The Hill Farm, Scanner Darkly, Turtles Can Fly
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People who enjoy the music I make and wish to assist in producing/promoting my creative work through recordings, concerts, or events. Secondly, people I've been friends with in person but fallen out of touch due to the hectic international style of life we live these days.

Important: Read me! If you're a new group or individual I don't know and mainly looking for one more friend add or comments on your new demo, send a friend request to my band Nerelisin , as I only add people and groups I am already familiar with, or that come through recommendations of genuine friends of mine. Also, if you post CD ads or ring tone site promotions in my comments field I will immediately delete you.

My Blog

the return

It's 2:22 AM, and sometime about 10 hours from now an aircraft will lift off taking one tired Ladi and one tired myself back to the US of A, after 2 years of foibles, friends, and frolics around Turke...
Posted by oudplayer on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:28:00 PST

In Milliyet newspaper...

http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2007/04/03/pazar/paz01.htmlHere's the feature Milliyet Gazetesi ran on us last Sunday... for those of you who are Turkish readers it might be a bit more meaningful!...
Posted by oudplayer on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST

you play too loud (slap!)

Thursday night we played the smallest, but one of the most intense, shows in our time as Eliot Bates ve Kaliforniya Saz Arkadaslari. It was our third gig at Gitar Cafe in Kadikoy, but what made the ev...
Posted by oudplayer on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:24:00 PST

restaurant gig...

Thursday night, if you're in town, we're doing a gig at Victoria Lokantasi, located near Galatasary in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul. 9:30 PM, and there will be no sound system, which means we ...
Posted by oudplayer on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:27:00 PST

drunk on raki

It was a tough day mixing. Everyone's been hearing the theme song for this film way too much (we're probably up to 4-digits by now), but it needs to come across as spontaneous, light, comic. Got a rou...
Posted by oudplayer on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:22:00 PST

new bands new gigs

So I'm getting together this new group - actually, old friends, but it took the three of us moving independently from the Bay Area to Istanbul to actually get together and play for the first time - an...
Posted by oudplayer on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:51:00 PST

very very late in Istanbul

It is altogether too late, and I'm posting this first blog after a night of mixing music for a couple Turkish feature films. Not enough live music playing happening in my life, but I'm getting a new g...
Posted by oudplayer on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:51:00 PST