Ambient electronic dance beats combined with Sufi music and whirling doesn’t sound like a typical recipe for kid entertainment. Fortunately, kids aren’t hampered by preconceptions of what should be ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ARKIN Allen is a glass-half-full kind of guy. As dark as recent days have been in his homeland of Turkey, the artist known by some as ...

The eagerly anticipated debut feature film of Rue Morgue publisher Rodrigo Gudino, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, has named the man tasked with scoring the film. World music artist ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. "Our music is like a soundtrack for Istanbul," says Mercan Dede. Now based in Montreal, he grew up in the Turkish city on the edge of ...

World music sensation, producer and DJ Mercan Dede grew up in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents—Europe and Asia—and that duality is ...

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The title of Turkish composer Mercan Dede’s disc means “water,” and it could symbolize his vision of international musical ideas flowing together. But even if this image and his electronic ...

The audience in Istanbul was shocked when Mercan Dede walked on stage. How could he have a red Mohawk and a pierced ear? How could he be in his early 30s? This musician who plays a traditional Turkish ...

A lot of electronic music producers look upon the music of the Middle East as useful sample fodder–nothing evokes exoticism as instantly as a melismatic minaret wail or a twangy oud figure tossed into ...

Widely regarded as one of the world music scenes biggest stars, Mercan Dede's progressive and experimental approach to making music has seen him a constant on the international touring circuit across ...