Istanbul - Try outs

IstanPOOL is an collective of musicians from Turkey and the Netherlands in a unique setting with two winds, two guitars and two laptops. Here you have six modernists from two vibrating urban metropoles joining forces  in music. The members have history : Lotz and Moore participated together in Chris Potter’s Tentet and recorded for Michael Baird. Lotz and Erel form the Duo Lotz/Erel and performed together with Robert van Heumen. Akinci and Gürkal are both members of Islak Köpek and have performed and/or recorded with Moore, Erel and Lotz in Istanbul. Now they meet in their urge to express and fertilize each other in composition and improvisation. The result is a powerful mix of athmospheric soundscapes and dynamic movement. Surprising, pleasing, itching, bizarre, adventurous, funny, unpredictable, visionary.

•     Michael Moore clarinets, alto saxophone
•     Mark Alban Lotz  piccolo, c-, alto-, bass-, contra bass flutes
•     Şevket Akinci  guitars & effects
•     Giray Gürkal  guitars & effects
•     Robert van Heumen laptop-instrument
•     Korhan Erel laptop, controllers

(A Lotz/Erel  initiative with Stichting Doek, Amsterdam)