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Murat Ses (Ses means sound in Turkish) is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements. He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish Music scene for decades.
Murat Ses
He worked with several groups: Meteorlar (Meteors) (1966-1967),
Silüetler (Shadows) (1967), Moğollar (Mongols) (1967-1972), Barış Manço
and Kurtalan Ekspres (Express) (1973-1974), Edip Akbayram and Dostlar
(Friends) (1974) and Cem Karaca and Dervişan (Dervishes) (1975-1976).
Also, he founded Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi (Legend of Mount Ararat) band. This
band was dissolved in 1976 and 3 45 rpms. He migrated to Austria in
1979.
His album Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie d'hier à aujourd'hui was
awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Charles Cros Academie in Paris,
France with Moğollar. The albums Automaton (Slave with Ewer Device),
Binfen (feat.Tan) and Culduz, all released in the 1990s, are parts of a
trilogy with the concept: "The Timeless and Boundaryless Context of
Culture and Civilization". Ses has had excellent press (US Keyboard,
Audion, i/e, Expose ...) and airplay (Automaton² was no.1 in Rhode
Island, Binfen no.7 in Ohio). His main influences are Pink Floyd,
Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and
Central Asian cultures and music. He is the most important Turkish
artist still internationally active and shaping today's independent
electronic music scene.
His earlier (late 60s early 70s) psychedelic-Anatolian works with
English lyrics released under US, Dutch, German and Canadian labels in
the late 1990s through 2002. Murat's album with his "San
Francisco/Miami Impressions" was recorded in Miami, Florida and was
published in 2005 as Automaton² (Automaton Squared) followed by "Binfen
2005 Remix" and "Electric Levantine" (2006). His newest (2007) release
is "Umami", his seventh solo album in a row.
In the early 1990s Murat Ses developed a musical style he terms
Electric Levantine. The main elements of the style are microtonal
properties created on authentic Levantine scales, electronical produced
instrument timbres and Western music. It's an experimental form of
Anadolu Pop. His typical Electric Levantine sound can be heard on his
album AUTOMATON (Slave with Ewer Device) and on the subsequent albums
of his 90's trilogy.
In 2007 Advertising agency TBWA decided to use the early 70s Moğollar
song 'Garip Çoban' (meaning Poor Shepherd in Turkish), composed by
Murat Ses, in PlayStation 3 campaigns commercial.
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