BABA ZULA - Turkey
Location: Promenade
BABA ZULA born in Istanbul in 1996 Baba Zula ritual like performances are a mixture of disciplines of art. 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 Istanbul psychedelia.
While a ney can represent the past Sufi-Islamic tradition, and a clarinet is the symbol of the music of the Turkish gypsies an electric saz together with a wooden spoon can serve as musical compass to Turkish musical roots going as far back as pre-Islamic, shamanic times, through Anatolia reaches all the way up to present-day Istanbul. Baba ZuLa’s music is in fact psychedelic music born out of Istanbul and influenced.[...]