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Anil Eraslan

He graduated and got his masters degree from Strasbourg Conservatory where he studied under Frank van Lamsweerde and Marc Coppey. Studying contemporary music, jazz, and free improvising under Vincent Courtois, Anssi Kartunnen, Eric Watson, Benjamin Moussay, he gave solo concerts and concerts with baroque, classical and contemporary music ensembles, was invited to Musica and Jazz d‘Or festivals. His main band Auditive Connection has been accepted to L’Illiade Young Talents Festival and ‘France o Folies’ and performed during ‘Turkish Season in France’ and in İstanbul.

His duet with Christine Ott, a prominent Ondes Martenot player, participated to many concerts in europe. In 2010 summer, he participated to ISCMS Istanbul 2010 with Sumru Ağıryürüyen where he also played in concerts with Ayşe Tütüncü, John Lindberg, Trilok Gurtu and Karl Berger. Duet with John Lindberg called 'Juggling-Kukla' is created there in Istanbul.

He currenty plays with Sumru Ağıryürüyen in many different projects such as their duet ‘Sert Sessizler’ and the quartet ‘5’ with Oğuz Büyükberber and Cenk Erdoğan. Besides his contemporary and improvised music projects in many different cities in Europe, he’s teaching the cello and doing improvised music workshops in Illkirch.

As a photographer, he participated to many exhibitions in Turkey and in France and is awarded by Geniş Açı Young Talents Project, Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Px3 and Center of Fine Arts in Fort Collins in USA.

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Nick Dunston: Colla Voce

Read "Colla Voce" reviewed by John Sharpe


One thing you can expect from a Nick Dunston leadership date is the unexpected. After Atlantic Extraction (OOYH, 2019), Spider Season (OOYH, 2022) and Skultura (Fun In Church, 2023), Colla Voce is something else again. Although an in-demand bassist in adventurous contemporary circles, as evidenced by stints with trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, as a composer Dunston ranges even more widely. Assembled from sessions in Berlin and NYC, Dunston calls on a 13-strong ...

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Nick Dunston: Colla Voce

Read "Colla Voce" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Composer and bassist Nick Dunston's Colla Voce -"with the voice" -is a chamber construction which he describes as an Afro-surrealist anti-opera that operates in the concept of an individual experience, as opposed to a collective one. By that he asks, “what if the blue that I see is not that same blue that you see?" His caveat is that each listener's experience may differ. Historical examples of this phenomenon are Igor Stravinsky's 1913 premiere of “The Rite of ...

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Antonio Borghini: Banquet of Consequences

Read "Banquet of Consequences" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Dalla fine degli anni Novanta avevo assistito all'esordio di Antonio Borghini in seno al collettivo bolognese Bassesfere, al fianco di Fabrizio Puglisi, Cristina Zavalloni, Domenico Caliri, Edoardo Marraffa e tanti altri. Già nei primi anni del Duemila il contrabbassista aveva cominciato a collaborare anche con maestri internazionali del calibro di Tristan Honsinger, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, John Tchicai... Da quando nel 2009 ha deciso di spostarsi a Berlino, come altri cervelli in fuga alla ricerca di ulteriori esperienze ...

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