Aşina – Erkan Oğur & İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu

In a duet with singer İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu—a prominent voice in Alevi music, among other genres—Erkan Oğur interprets songs and poems from the Anatolian folk and Sufi traditions.

Voice and instrument engage in a calm, focused dialogue that brings the musical heritage of Anatolia into the present.

Lineup:

• Erkan Oğur, kopuz & bağlama
• İsmail Hakkı Demircioğlu, bağlama

Program

• Folk songs from the oral and musical memory of Anatolia

About the new series

Unexpectedly familiar—“aşina” is a word of Persian origin that describes something familiar to us, even if we do not know it fully: a sense of closeness that needs no explanation.

The concert series of the same name embodies a new way of listening that recognizes the familiar within the seemingly foreign and brings it closer to us. “Aşina” connects people not through culture, but through shared emotions.

Internationally renowned musicians are coming to Berlin for the series, some of them making the trip specifically for these concerts after a long absence. Time-honored traditions, artists from the urban scene, and musical forms of expression rarely heard in concert halls come together on stage, giving voice to the music of our time. At the same time, the audience brings together worlds that often merely coexist in everyday life.