Psychedelic Music Explosion

Active since 2001, Ayyuka was one of the first bands to look back to the Turkish music of the 70s and create a new, unmistakable sound from it. Immediately after their debut album in 2007, Ayyuka shared the stage with Sonic Youth and Jonathan Richman; their third studio album Sömestr is considered a cult album among record collectors. Inspired by international names such as Dick Dale or John Frusciante as well as local heroes such as Erkin Koray or Orhan Gencebay, their music sounds guitar oriented, their fascination with film music and improvisation provides surprising twists and turns.
The worldwide hype of their single Yukadans is now followed by their EP Zaman Ziyan, which leads the listener through a kaleidoscope of musical landscapes with borrowings from genres such as Afro-Beat, Funk, Boss Nova or Arabesque.

BALTHVS is one of the positive results of the pandemic! The three musicians used the time of standstill to form a band in 2020. Since then, the psychedelic funk trio from Bogotá has already released over 30 singles and three albums, on which they cross genre boundaries and fuse influences from cumbia, surf rock and funk. And they don't intend to stop there: In addition to their many releases, they are also busy conquering the world's stages and thrilling audiences with their energetic live shows.

She skillfully combines Anatolian and Middle Eastern music with modern, electronic sounds. Having grown up between cultures as the granddaughter of migrant workers in Germany, she calls her current musical style Gurbetçi Müzik meets Darbuka Disko. Influenced by the music of her childhood, which she heard everywhere from small kitchen radios to wedding bands, she takes her audience on a musical journey and provides a contemporary perspective on the music of past generations.