It seems incredible, but the contrabass is back fully in the center of my life. For several weeks we are working hard to prepare for a concert in Linz, Austria. I'm playing with Sultan Tunç. In these last 2 weeks preceding the concert we will add some percussion and a solo instrument.
Meanwhile Tunç, Ali and I have worked on musics arrangement.
The rehearsal room is perhaps one of the most charming room with view in Istanbul (even if you discover many). However, it is a room that overlooks from the third floor of a building directly on the Galata tower.
A characteristic of this musical group is multilingualism. Tunç and Ali are 2 Turks born in Germany. But when they speak together Tunç preferably begins the talk in Turkish, Ali in German. The other answers with the given language. Until the end of the sentence, then both return to their preferred language. I follow their speeches and in the meantime I can exercise both Turkish and German. But if they want a proper response from me, they must be satisfied by English, they know this.
But after work, in leisure time, multilingualism reaches embarrassing levels. The best a few days ago. After a snack in a bar down the street, Tunç has proposed: "Zu drink buono çay?" that would mean: "we take a good tea?", in German, English, Italian and Turkish. So started the game to make sentence in 4 languages.
Today we start to play after the break at the weekend. Ali is not here. But there will be Emir at sampling and Gencer for percussion. Ali will not be here because he is still in Cyprus. Hey, Ali, what are you still doing in Cyprus? Come on, back soon! Biz warten per you!!!
Meanwhile Tunç, Ali and I have worked on musics arrangement.
The rehearsal room is perhaps one of the most charming room with view in Istanbul (even if you discover many). However, it is a room that overlooks from the third floor of a building directly on the Galata tower.
A characteristic of this musical group is multilingualism. Tunç and Ali are 2 Turks born in Germany. But when they speak together Tunç preferably begins the talk in Turkish, Ali in German. The other answers with the given language. Until the end of the sentence, then both return to their preferred language. I follow their speeches and in the meantime I can exercise both Turkish and German. But if they want a proper response from me, they must be satisfied by English, they know this.
But after work, in leisure time, multilingualism reaches embarrassing levels. The best a few days ago. After a snack in a bar down the street, Tunç has proposed: "Zu drink buono çay?" that would mean: "we take a good tea?", in German, English, Italian and Turkish. So started the game to make sentence in 4 languages.
Today we start to play after the break at the weekend. Ali is not here. But there will be Emir at sampling and Gencer for percussion. Ali will not be here because he is still in Cyprus. Hey, Ali, what are you still doing in Cyprus? Come on, back soon! Biz warten per you!!!
Here below some photo from the window of the rehearsal room.
Here below during a break in a "fish bar" on the street.
Here below finally in the rehearsal room.
Here below a bier in Kadıköy with Laura.
