The story behind »Şelale« is as old as modern band-based music itself: Three guys meet and jam together. One of them is an East Belgian record wizard who, after years of curating, is increasingly taking the controls into his own hands and calling himself soFa. The second: A Dresdener on the wrong track, who went to Istanbul for a scholarship and has been stuck there ever since (freely chosen) – that’s Marius Houschyar. And the third just chilled with Don Cherry and about every great in the jazz business. Okay Temiz is a percussion legend and probably lives not far from Houschyar. What started out as a duo and a loose jam in a time when it was just the two of them hanging out in apartments (2018) has been drummed up into an outer-world spectacle by the masterful hand of the Turkish friend. Space-fleet synth runs meet Near East vibes, wave and other off-beat chugs meet digger ideas. While now Houschyar’s LP »Temmuz« tried to soak up the feelings of the city at the Bosporus and played with one or the other »orientalized« line, the trio immediately creates a place of its own. Only sporadically borrowings from Anatol Rock become evident, a large part of the time is spent on an internationalized dance festival – in the short hours between dusk and young morning.
Baldruin
Mosaike Der Imagination
Quindi