This summer Salon IKSV continues their wonderful Gezgin Salon series, which sees them taking their amazing program to different destinations, this time returning to the vibrant open-air Parkorman on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June. Presented by +1, the music festival has lined up some serious talent yet again. The line-up on Saturday 29 June features Travis, Büyük Ev Ablukada, Stavroz (Live), Miles Kane, Oceanvs Orientalis, and Bad. The line-up on Sunday 30 June features Parcels, La Femme, Hey! Douglas, ENGIN, Monsieur Minimal, and Elektro Hafiz. Tickets are on sale now via Passo.
From the organizer:
+1 Presents: Gezgin Salon Festival 2024 is finally in sight! The dates have been set and Istanbul’s favourite contemporary music festival will take place this year in the last weekend of June. On Saturday, the rhythm will pick up with Stavroz (Live), and on Sunday Parcels and La Femme will elevate the Bonus Parkorman spirit to an open-air disco. Surprises always await!
The days are long, the nights are cool, and the sky is always clear at Istanbul’s heavenly forest lodge, Bonus Parkorman, where +1 chats adorn endless summer days and nights, heralding the precious summer holidays.
From Scotland with love comes Travis!
Formed in the 1990s at the Glasgow School of Art, Travis comprises Fran Healy on vocals and guitar, Andy Dunlop on guitar, Dougie Payne on bass, and Neil Primrose on drums. The BRIT Award-winning band, renowned for multi-million-selling platinum-certified albums such as The Man Who and The Invisible Band, is set to elevate +1 Presents: Gezgin Salon Festival onto the global stage, on the eve of their new album L.A. Times, heralded by the single ‘Gaslight’.
Büyük Ev Ablukada, once again transforming with their new album
Büyük Ev Ablukada loves to create extraordinary worlds with their lyrics, music, and stage performances with each new album, providing a refreshing dose of mind-opening music to the Turkish audience tired of love songs. With Fırtınayt, they opened the doors to the electronic world wide, and with their latest album Defansif Dizayn and the accompanying new shows, they rejuvenate their stage energy.
Minimal techno’s gigantic quartet: live set from Stavroz
Stavroz senses the minute mood changes of the audience to offer unique and exceptionally unrepeatable experiences for the stage, the venue, and their audience, always with live sets. A quartet that not only transcends electronica forward as an exuberant dance music, but also exchange ethnic and acoustic elements with jazz in an unprecedented, organic way. Stavroz was born in Ghent, Belgium, where two DJs and sound engineers, IJsbrand De Wilde and Gert Beazar, initially came together, and were instantly lauded for their sets and exchanged stage antics. A few years later, Maxim Helincks and Pieter De Meester joined them to evolve into one of the most performance-orientated DJ teams of all time. On the shining path that extends from The Ginning, the first evidence of their invincibility in electronic music, to last year’s Kick Up The Dust, they won numerous awards, and recorded many chart-topping tracks for Kindisch, Bedrock and their own Moodfamily label. With more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and thunderous performances at festivals such as Coachella (USA), Fusion Festival (DE) and Pukkelpop (BE), Stavroz has irrefutably become timeless over the years.
‘Live’liest form of electronic dance music: Parcels
Parcels have been hailing from Berlin for years now, but actually all five members of the band have their roots in Byron Bay, Australia. Parcels released their titular debut album in 2018, which was praised as ‘cheeky, timeless and devilishly catchy’ by pop music authority NME magazine. Their follow-up, Day/Night, was met with thunderous applause in the UK by Rolling Stone. A live stage favourite, the band played to sold-out crowds around the globe last year, including the Hollywood Bowl in LA and SummerStage in Central Park, NYC, their most extensive tour to date, drawing Daft Punk comparisons. Gradually departing from their funk-leaning period, Parcels continued their live disco recordings with Live Vol. 2 recorded at Le Palace in Paris, with tracks climbing up to 130 BPM. Live Vol. 1 was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio – the landmark studio that shaped David Bowie’s Berlin era. The chance to see Daft Punk live may be long gone now, but the opportunity of seeing Parcels live on stage in full spring is certainly not to be missed.
The concealed ‘fatale’ coming to seduce Parkorman: La Femme
The dizzyingly fresh representative of French psychedelia that waved the baton at Salon last year, will travel back to Istanbul to seduce a new batch of audiences. Founded by keyboardist Marlon Magnée and guitarist Sacha Got, La Femme has grown to become one of the coolest, most surprising and most ‘rock and roll’ bands in France, with five albums to their credit released in the last 13 years. Their debut album in 2013, Psycho Tropical Berlin, received a golden disc and the Album Revelation of the Year Award at Victoires de la Musique, aka Grammy equivalent of France. Their 2016 follow up Mystère topped the French album charts and carried them to the headline of the 6,300-capacity Zénith venue. In the past two years, their work has accelerated. Their all-Spanish language album, Teatro Lúcido, which they designed as a diary of their travels to Hispanic countries, was followed by another road album, Paris-Hawaï, released last year. According to Michael Hann from The Guardian, La femme ‘tries on a wardrobe of different clothes – psychedelia, surf rock, electronica, krautrock and more – and ends up looking fantastic in all of them.’
The charismatic voice of Brit rock now striding on his own: Miles Kane
The legendary vocal and electro guitar virtuoso Miles Kane wrote the history of indie rock alongside his neighbours like Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, and Kasabian. Kane first gained recognition with The Rascals, and revived the golden age of Baroque pop in the years to come. He enchanted us with indie rock anthems like ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are,’ and lately returned to his roots with One Man Band in 2023, featuring exuberant guitars, high-octane vocals, and relentless indie rock.
Hey! Douglas with a festival-exclusive performance
Inspired by the psychedelic rock and pop culture of the 60s and 70s that had a huge influence on the local music scene, Hey! Douglas enriches geographical melodies with breakbeat, disco, and funk, creating a layered music. Hey! Douglas is now bringing his lively electronic music to the festival stage with his live orchestra.
Carefree, bass-driven, and liberated: Oceanvs Orientalis
The project of Istanbul’s Şafak Özkütle, Oceanvs Orientalis, is a one-man army melting the world’s entire sonic heritage into his music, using the unlimited possibilities of electronic music. He has been the secret hero of Istanbul’s long-awaited parties since 2011. With his Kanto Records founded in 2017, he never misses discovering a new talent every month.
Bade is raising the bar in alternative pop
Living between New York and Istanbul, Bade composes, sings, and is known for her production skills. Despite being in the early years of her music career, she’s already adored by the stage lights. She trained at the Berklee College of Music, performed at various venues in New York, and started album work with Kenan Doğulu, releasing ‘Fragile’ from Doğulu Music in April 2022. We’re here to witness a rising star.
ENGIN’s rhythms will captivate you
ENGIN from Mannheim sings in German, Turkish, and English, finding inspiration in the Anatolian rock of the 70s, creative fusions of legends like Barış Manço and Cem Karaca, but also in popular culture ranging from Pink Floyd to Altın Gün and The War On Drugs. The trio’s unique live performances leave listeners mesmerised.
Monsieur Minimal, unforgettable with ‘Desert in your Eyes’
Monsieur Minimal, the festival’s guest from our lovely neighbour, is from Athens. His dream snippets from the 60s and 70s, vintage synths and guitars, along with seductive vocals, earned him the title of Greece’s current indie-pop pioneer. With elements borrowed skillfully from soul, funk, disco, and indie, his album Seven, due just before the festival on 6 June, promises to be one of the standout albums of his career.
A local wedding in the most twisted form: Elektro Hafız
We’re bringing our saz and DJ set, heading towards a forty-day, forty-night wedding in a border village in the southeast. Elektro Hafız loves to play with contrasts, creating new compositions. He elevates wedding music to a hypnotic dimension while never letting go of humour. He lives in Cologne and frequently tours Berlin, Paris, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Barcelona, and Brussels.
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