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Burak Kaya

Burak Kaya (1970) was born in Ankara, Turkey. He began playing classical guitar at age of 12. He played both classical guitar music and jazz standards seperately for a long period of time. Although he took some guitar and harmony lessons, he's mostly self-taught.

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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Album Review

Burak Kaya: Climate Change

Read "Climate Change" reviewed 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 ...

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Album Review

Burak Kaya: Climate Change

Read "Climate Change" reviewed 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 ...

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Location

Istanbul

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Classical Guitar, Jazz Guitar, Latin Jazz Guitar

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Climate Change

Self Produced
2015

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Gerze

From: Climate Change
By Burak Kaya

Yalgızam

From: Songs For Cango
By Burak Kaya

Activists

From: Climate Change
By Burak Kaya

Aman Avci

From: Songs For Cango
By Burak Kaya

Gezi Park

From: Climate Change
By Burak Kaya

Uludere Requiem

From: Songs For Cango
By Burak Kaya

HES Off

From: Climate Change
By Burak Kaya

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