Mac DeMarco will be on stage at Gezgin Salon later this month. The news is: the supporting acts are just as exciting!
The time has come for the next edition of Salon İKSV’s one-day festival series Gezgin Salon, sponsored by Birlikte Güzel. On 30 November at Volkswagen Arena, before indie rock star Mac DeMarco, the stage will welcome Büyük Ev Avlukada and Los Bitchos. One of the best performers of the local scene, Büyük Ev Ablukada will take the stage at 20.30 with their ‘Fırtınayt’ project. But you are strongly advised to come earlier. 19.00 is when the indie rock band with a Turkish psychedelic touch and Cumbia vibes Los Bitchos of Serra Petale and other members from all over the world, will heat you up.
It is merely enough to describe him as a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer… Mac DeMarco is more than the sum of his songs and albums. He is a profile that twisted the fate of indie rock in the 2010’s when everybody believed it has been going through a decline after its heydays in the 2000’s. His funny, reckless and care-free attitude makes him one of a kind. We know his songs by heart, play his songs on repeat, watch his videos the moment they are released and impatiently wait for his next step.
His music, self-described as “jizz jazz”, takes a very different turn compared to his counterparts despite sheltering influences of indie rock, lo-fi, psychedelic pop and soft rock. His most recent album Here Comes the Cowboy followed Rock and Roll Night Club, 2, Salad Days, Another One and This Old Dog that shook the music charts all through 2017. For now, Here Comes the Cowboy is the most refined product of his musicality that gets deeper with every step despite the growing effortless feel. Chamber of Reflection, My Kind of Woman, Cooking Up Something Good, Freaking Out the Neighborhood, Nobody, Salad Days and Ode to Viceroy have already become indie rock classics that we surely will listen to with the same pleasure and feelings after ten years have passed. It would be unfair to skip mentioning his live performances where he absolutely cuts a rug on stage. Get ready for the final concert of Mac DeMarco’s European tour in the scope of Birlikte Güzel: Gezgin Salon on 30 November at Volkswagen Arena.
The one and only of our local scene besieging our lives with their songs, albums and concerts Büyük Ev Ablukada was founded by Afordisman Salihins and Canavar Banavar in 2008. They have swiftly become legends of the town both for their songs and styles. Band members go by the nicknames Afordisman Salihins, Bas Bariton, Bentek Sizhepiniz, Omçelik, Canavar Banavar, Galvaniz Gelbiraz and Gelicem Nerdesin. After they turned their concert “Ay Şuram Ağrıyo” into the album titled Ay Şuram Hala Ağrıyor, they released their first official album Full Faça in 2012. In 2016 with their neat new style Fırtınayt, they cracked the doors to the world of electronic music wide open. Their album with the same title passed through this door in 2017. Büyük Ev Ablukada, which has stolen us away with their songs, their energy on the stage and genuine relations with their followers on every platform, will be with us with ‘Fırtınayt’ before the already classic Mac DeMarco concert, to make 30 November even more unforgettable.
Indie rock band with members from all over the world founded under the lead of Serra Petale with Latin melodies and Turkish psychedelic rock flavours Los Bitchos was founded by multi-instrumentalist Serra Petale, the London-based band consists of Carolina Faruolo (guitar), Agustina Ruiz (keytar), Josefine Jonnson (bass guitar) and Nic Crawshaw (drums/percussion). Even though Los Bitchos is based in London we can say that in a way, it brings the world together. Members from Perth/Australia, Montevideo/Uruguay, Stockholm/Sweden and Croydon/England finely blend the colours of the lands they hail from in Los Bitchos’ music. Their music bearing traces of Cumbia vibes, shoegaze guitars, Latin melodies, Swedish indie-pop sounds and even Turkish psychedelic rock has made Alex Kapranos, the frontman of Franz Ferdinand, their biggest fan. So much so that Kapranos become the producer for the band’s single titled Pista (Great Start). Cherished by media outlets such as KEXP, NME and BBC 6 Music, Los Bitchos has also found similar success with their next single The Link Is About To Die. The band has toured with names including Ty Segall, The Black Lips, Bill Ryder Jones, Bodega, Methyl Ethel, The Murlocs and Kikagaku Moyo. Before they’re off to record their first official album with Alex Kapranos, Los Bitchos will make those who fill Gezgin Salon dance right before Mac DeMarco takes stage on 30 November.
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