With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

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Jackson Scott has played guitar since he could stand upright. His passion for flamenco and gypsy music was inspired by his upbringing near Seville and travels through India. In 2007 he met Cuban bass player Jimmy Martinez and Spaniard Roberto Ares, who had recently returned from studying percussion in Brazil. 

Together they formed Mano de Dios – a pun on Maradona’s famous excuse – joined later by Sky Murphy, playing guitar and trombone. The result is a rugged blend of  flamenco, punk, blues, rumba and samba. They have been described as ‘The Spanish Pogues’ and the ‘Indie Gypsy Kings’. 

In 2008, Mano recorded their first EP with Queen producer, Josh Macrae. Picked up later, by legendary producer Youth, their new recordings see them moving in a more ‘gypsy punk’ direction. Eclectic by nature, Mano have played everywhere from The Secret Garden Party and Glastonbury to the Guggenheim museum. They have opened for the  Gypsy Kings and shared stages with acts ranging from The Blockheads and Razorlight to  Cosmo Jarvis,  Molotov Jukebox and The Correspondents.

Contact - contact@ahkosmos.com

Başak Günak is a sound artist and composer also internationally known as AH! KOSMOS in the field of electronic music. Her work includes sound art, performance, sound installation, composition for theater & contemporary dance.

She released three solo LPs Bastards, Beautiful Swamp, Rewilding from Compost Records, Denovali Records, Subtext Records and FUU and numerous collar LPs, EPs. Both timeless and otherworldly, Günak’s work unconsciously defies being tied to a genre, tapping into something beyond an immediate surrounding or experience to communicate something more transcendental.

The Swing Band of Istanbul! Jazz from Roaring 20s!

Ahmet Üstüner a.k.a Aslan Abi

2004 Antalya Hip Hop Festivali’nde, “Cellat” mahlasıyla, henüz 14 yaşında ilk sahne tozunu yutan Ahmet Üstüner, 2008 baharında, kendine has rap vokaliyle, “Fırtına Kopacak” isimli ilk EP sini yayınladı. Aynı dönemde, “Terapi”, “Argo” ve “Joker” ile birlikte, Eskişehir merkezli “Barakabeat” oluşumunun hayata geçirilmesine öncülük etti. Bu oluşum dahilinde, rap/RnB vokal ve prodüksiyon aşamalarının önemli bir parçası oldu. 2011 yılında bu oluşumdan ayrılıp müzik kariyerine solo devam etme kararı alan Ahmet, bir soulful hip hop denemesi “Madalyon” albümünü, 2013 yılında dinleyicilerle paylaştı. Geçen sürede, “Peyote Nevizade”, “Peyote Eskişehir”, “Taksim The Mekan” gibi mekanlarda ürettiği müziği sahneleme fırsatı buldu. 2017 yılında, tarzını “post alaturka” olarak tanımladığı “Aslan Abi” EP si ile, müzikseverlerle, zihninde dolanan melodileri yeniden paylaşma cüretini gösterdi. 2017 yılı boyunca, “Aslan Abi” isimli ölümsüz bir karakterin hikayesini, akustik performanslarla “Atölye Hangart” ve benzeri akustik sahnelerde öyküleştirdi. Yine aynı yılın yazında, prodüksiyon işlemleri İstanbul-Berlin hattında tamamlanan “My Own Copernicus” teklisi, tüm dijital platformlarda yerini aldı. Hız kesmeden ikinci teklisi “Hep Aşk” ı da dinleyicilerin beğenisine sunan Ahmet, şu sıralar oryantal ezgileri, elektronik temelli trippy ve jazzy ritimlerle harmanlayıp, müziğini özgür kılmaya çalışıyor.

Recorded live from our bookshop, in the heart of Paris, conversations and readings with internationally acclaimed authors. Discover exciting new fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and delve into our archives for events with Zadie Smith, Eddie Izzard, Don DeLillo, Rebecca Solnit, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dave Eggers, Rachel Cusk, Marlon James, Edouard Louis, Sara Pascoe, Richard Powers, Sally Rooney and many, many more. Hosted by Adam Biles.

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