Album Credits:
Original Tracks by: Santi & Tuğçe, @santiandtugce
Cover Art by: Scott Partridge, www.jevaart.com/

Album Description:

Terminal Caribe is the newest album of Santi & Tuğçe who weave timeless, borderless melodies with global, dance floor rhythms. Similar to their previous releases which take listeners on a sonic adventure all the way from the coasts of the Black Sea to the Parana River, Terminal Caribe presents a peculiarly personal, yet undoubtedly universal odyssey exploring the deep interrelations between music, movement, and memory. Named after a bus stop where the duo had the initial inkling for this album, Terminal Caribe serves as the point of departure for an entrancing journey through a wildly varied world of sound. Soulful melodies, captivating harmonies, colorful orchestration, polyrhyhmic percussions and marimbas, and deep bass lines combine with heartwarming vocals and the sounds of sea to tell a tale that is at once epic, melancholic, spacy and irresistibly groovy.

Santi (from Asunción, Paraguay) and Tuğçe (from Istanbul, Turkey) left their homes to follow their dreams of music and have been road companions and musical partners for more than a decade. They collaborated on two full length-albums, four EPs and numerous singles which captivated listeners worldwide. With their 2016 EP El Regreso del Gallito, “Santi & Tuğçe rewrote Paraguayan folklore” (Thump Vice, Brazil) and with their Songs for My Grandmother, selected as one of the best albums from Turkey in 2017 by Beehype, they remade Turkish classics for contemporary audiences. Drawing on their eclectic background and constant pulse for innovation, Santi & Tuğçe once again reinvent an unpredictable and enticing soundscape of the Caribbean and beyond.

No Return - Lyrics:

Time to leave this island again 
Our ceaseless search for new shores began 
Like many restless wanderers before 
Who reached this land with a thirst for more 
We longed for water to grow our budding hearts 
Knowing our time has come, we lovingly depart 

Many days we stumbled along 
Many waves we rode alone 
Many nights we pondered upon 
Distant sands to build a dream on 
Like many restless wanderers before 
Who reached this land with a thirst for more 
We longed for water to grow our budding hearts 
Knowing our time has come, we lovingly depart 

Many days we stumbled along 
Many waves we rode alone 
If you ask “why tell me this”, allow me to explain 
I don’t need no sympathy, but I do want a friend 
Like many restless wanderers before 
Who reached this land with a thirst for more 
We longed for water to grow our budding hearts 
Knowing our time has come, we lovingly depart

Terminal Caribe

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Santi & Tuğçe - No Return

Bookings: santiandtugce@gmail.com

2020
01.02 Jai Thep Festival (TH)
02.02 Jai Thep Festival (TH)
15.02 Slow Club, Freiburg (DE)
22.02 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
21.03 Partymag Live Stream, Istanbul (TR)
08.04 Let's Support Artists, Bonjuk Bay (TR) 
27.04 United We Stream, Bulbul Berlin (DE)
25.07 Katzensprung Open Air, Cologne (DE)
01.08 Knust Geburstag, Hamburg (DE)
08.09 Resonanz Traum, Berlin (DE)
12.09 Casa Lavanda, Istanbul (TR)

2019
20.01 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
03.02 Lucid Dawning Theater im Delphi, Berlin (DE)
22.02 Centro Cultural Juan Salazar, Asuncion (PY)
28.02 Santuario Showcase, Santiago (CL)
01.03 Kompaz Party, Valparaiso (CL)
02.03 Peña Nomade, Santiago (CL)
03.03 Temple Bar, Buenos Aires (AR)
05.03 Selina Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires (AR)
07.03 Avant Garden, Buenos Aires (AR)
16.03 Eats & Beats Izmir Arena, Izmir (TR)
28.03 Zorlu PSM, Istanbul (TR)
12.04 Dis-placed Re-placed Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin (DE)
10.05 Schlachthof, Kassel (DE)
16.05 Bonjuk Burn, Marmaris (TR)
23.05 Feriye Palace, Istanbul (TR)
02.06 Beate Uwe Schiffsparty, Berlin (DE)
08.06 Astir Beach, Athens (GR)
22.06 Cosmo Radio Interview + Live Set, Berlin (DE)
22.06 Kaosberlin, Berlin (DE)
06.07 Club Marvy, Izmir (TR)
07.07 The Beach of Momo, Cesme (TR)
14.07 The Beach of Momo, Cesme (TR)
20.07 Kultursommer, Hannover (DE)
27.07 Kometa Festival, Riga (LV)
02.08 Kempinski Barbaros Bay, Bodrum (TR)
04.08 The Bodrum Edition, Bodrum (TR)
08.08 Parla Parla Bodrum (TR)
10.08 Barbelo, Bodrum (TR)
11.08 The Bodrum Edition, Bodrum (TR)
24.08 Elio Sedef, Istanbul (TR)
31.08 Iris Beirut, Beirut (LB)
08.09 Mentha Nova, Istanbul (TR)
05.10 Bulbul Berlin (DE)
10.10 Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul (TR)
11.10 Mandarin Oriental, Bodrum (TR)
18.10 House of Fuzuli, Istanbul (TR)
09.11 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
29.11 Mensch Meier, Berlin (DE)
07.12 Loco de Pera, Istanbul (TR)
14.12 Loco de Pera, Istanbul (TR)

2018
12.01 Mérida Fest, Teatro Peón Contreras (MX)
12.01 Casa Chica, Mérida (MX)
13.01 Mérida Fest, Atrio de la Catedral (MX)
18.01 Xaman Tulum, Mexico (MX)
19.01 Radio Tulum, Mexico (MX)
19.01 Secret Location, Tulum (MX)
24.02 Kulturhaus Kili, Berlin (DE)
03.03 Greenhouse, Berlin (DE)
09.03 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
23.03 Birgit & Bier, Berlin (DE)
30.03 TwentyOne Maslak, Istanbul (TR)
20.04 Mensch Meier, Berlin (DE)
21.05 Theatron Pfingsfestival, Munich (DE)
29.05 Klunkerkranich, Berlin (DE)
31.05 Bonjuk Burn Spiral, Marmaris (TR)
15.06 Burg Schnabel, Berlin (DE)
22.06 Ekodrom Festival, Vojnic (HR)
13.07 Cassiopeia, Berlin (DE) 
14.07 Mensch Meier, Berlin (DE)
21.07 Open Air Sydhavnen, Copenhagen (DK)
02.08 Garbicz Festival, Torzym (PL)
15.08 Naua Gathering, Mallorca (ES)
17.08 Bucht der Träumer Festival, Helenesee (DE)
01.09 Istanbul Cocktail Festival (TR)
08.09 Getting Ready for Into the Woods Festival, Izmir (TR)
14.09 La Halle Papin, Paris (FR)
15.09 Le Mellotron, Paris (FR)
22.09 Mensch Meier, Berlin (DE)
28.09 Bonjuk Bay Love Weekend, Marmaris (TR)
13.10 Design Hotels Arena, Copenhagen (DK)
28.10 Kolibri Sinfonie Klunkerkranich, Berlin (DE)
10.11 Vibronica Book of Tales, Kiev (UA)
16.11 Private Event, Antalya (TR)
24.11 So & So, Leipzig (DE)
30.11 Rummelsbucht, Berlin (DE)
02.12 Beate Uwe, Berlin (DE)
13.12 Wonderfruit Festival, Pattaya (TH)

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Tuğçe Kurtiş grew up with a love for music. At age 6, she joined the school choir and started singing. Since then, she performed in countless occasions in Europe, Asia, North and South America. Tuğçe studied voice, jazz vocals, and West-African drumming with percussionist Milford Graves and singer & songwriter Sheila Jordan. Various listeners have remarked that her voice is "ethereal", "something ancient, calling from the primeval darkness of fairytale".  Tuğçe has collaborated with Paraguayan musician & producer Santi on numerous albums and EPs. She is the founder of the Kybele project which emphasizes broader inclusion of artists from around the world.

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