First time ever update on highly popular Turkish Art Music (Türk Sanat), transforming it to a discoid electro-pop music, thus delivering for the first time a Neo-Turkish Art Music.
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Anthony HUseyin new album: O Geliyor (Making O)
Anthony Hüseyin presents their new album O Geliyor (Making O), in which they return to the re-discovery of their gender, their childhood, and their attachment to Zeki Müren.
Müren is widely regarded as the most important queer exponent in the history of Turkish Art Music. This genre of music was—and still is—highly popular in Turkey and across Arabic-influenced music cultures. It was open to musical hybridism, and Müren also included elements of jazz and pop music. Anthony Hüseyin considers Müren as the first example of a non-binary Turkish artist and a great in-fluence on their music style.
Stylistically, O Geliyor (Making O) is a combination of contemporary discoid electro-pop music, based on Turkish Art Music (Türk Sanat Müziği) by Zeki Müren. After successful current re-interpretations of Turkish music styles like neo-Anatolian pop and neo-Arabesk, this album provides a first take on neo-Turkish Art Music.
The album title is referring to the third genderless person pronoun in Turkish called «O», which en-compasses all gender possibilities in one word. The album approaches voice as a spectrum, expands normative gender constructions, thus expanding voice by making O, looking closely at topics such as home, freedom, and belonging with nonbinary lenses. It reflects on the memories that haunt us and the indescribable wounds of displacement. Set against the backdrop of Berlin, home to many immigrants and political and queer refugees, it exposes the profound emptiness in a metropolis wishing to imagine itself as a safe haven for the free-spirited, yet always reminding the Other that they don’t belong. At the same time, it delivers anthems for the displaced, for the queer migrants who traverse internal and external landscapes in search of a place called home.
Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary musician and performance artist of Kurdish-Turkish and Arabic descent who works with voice, text, film, dance, and installation. Raised in Urfa in Southeastern Turkey, where they learned traditional local music, they went on to study both classical and jazz singing in Istanbul and Rotterdam.
Their works combine the personal and political to explore memory, identity, community, collective consciousness, and the body.
In 2020, they received a grant from Musicboard Berlin for their third album Project O, a concept album recounting their personal and artistic quest as a queer, non-binary musician. In January 2023, Anthony Hüseyin composed and produced music worked as a musical director-composer and actor in the play Dschinns in Maxim Gorki theater in (2023–2026).
Anthony Hüseyin have released three songs of Zeki Müren from the album O and performed at venues and festivals like Music Match Festival in Dresden and İÇ İÇE Festival Festsaal Kreuzberg in Berlin since 2022. In 2022 the second single «Gizli Aşk» was released at Rotterdam Opera Festival. Their third single «Yıldızların Altında» was released at Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim in June, Fusion Festival and Pop-Kultur Berlin later on in 2022. Anthony Hüseyin opened the Queer Week 2022 at Maksim Gorki Theater, Berlin, with the release show of their album Project O. They continue touring with Project O in Germany and the EU, including several shows at Berghain Kantine (Berlin).
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