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Burak Kaya
Kaya had a strong influence of world music, latin jazz and Anatolian traditional musics in his style. Instead of using amplified guitars he prefers to play nylon string classical guitar which creates an natural acoustic sound. He plays mostly in small groups such as jazz trios including double bass and percussions or duo instrument projects. After playing in several groups, he established "Çekirdek" with his friends and recorded an album named 'Siste Yürümek' in 1992.
In 2006, he recorded a duo album with Hakan Küçükçınar the bass player and vocalist at Çekirdek.
He was a writer and publisher of an online magazine Çalakalem since 2001. Some of his short stories published in several literary magazines in Turkey.
He arranged Anatolian folk songs for jazz quartet and recorded an album named Songs For Cango in 2013. The album is including 9 traditional songs and a requiem for Uludere Massacre. His latest album Climate Change was released in 2015.
He started learning and playing fretless guitar in 2014. He is teaching jazz guitar in Burak Kaya Jazz Guitar Academy since 2010.
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Burak Kaya: Climate Change
by Hrayr Attarian
Turkish guitarist Burak Kaya's Climate Change is a socially conscious album with a definite political theme. It does not, however, scream" its civic message boisterously or with an aggressive style. Instead, its nine originals unfurl with a peaceful yet gripping feel and pastel colored hues with a memorable vibe.The dramatic Gezi Park," named after the location of the Istanbul protests against (initially) urban development, opens with a series of expectant brief bursts of collective phrases that roll with ...
read moreBurak Kaya: Climate Change
by Chris Mosey
Turkish guitarist Burak Kaya sees climate change as the greatest challenge facing mankind. On the sleeve of his album of the same name, he cites a Cree proverb: Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will man finally realize that we cannot eat money." He offers this disk as a ray of light in an increasingly dark world. The label and cover ...
read morePrimary Instrument
Guitar
Location
Istanbul
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
Classical Guitar, Jazz Guitar, Latin Jazz Guitar
Music
Gerze
From: Climate ChangeBy Burak Kaya
Yalgızam
From: Songs For CangoBy Burak Kaya
Activists
From: Climate ChangeBy Burak Kaya
Aman Avci
From: Songs For CangoBy Burak Kaya
Gezi Park
From: Climate ChangeBy Burak Kaya
Uludere Requiem
From: Songs For CangoBy Burak Kaya
HES Off
From: Climate ChangeBy Burak Kaya