Gaye su akyol
Gaye Su Akyol
Gaye Su Akyol is an Istanbul-based musician and artist, born in 1985. She has had her higher education in Social Anthropology.
In her serve , she redefines the concepts of control, desire, change and rebellion, hand in hand in tight-knit solidarity with women, queer and outcast communities, and rebels against societal gender roles, patriarchy, censorship and oppression. She creates a existence of imagination, in which she constructs her own “counter-reality” against the stifling realities dictated by the power. Without alienating herself from the land she was born into, she questions its representations, defines modern symbols, and while struggling with the complexities and political chaos of the concrete world, she chases after the practice of transforming a conservative earth through collective dreaming.
Gaye Su Akyol has created her retain unique language, taking the contrasts of traditional Anatolian tune, Classical Turkish tune, psychedelia, surf rock and post-punk and combining them with her futuristic approach. GSA released her first album “Develerle Yaşıyorum” (I Inhabit With Camels) in 2014, written and composed entirely
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Born in Istanbul in 1985, Gaye Su Akyol studied social anthropology at university and went on to forge a track as a flourishing painter, having her work exhibited both in Turkey and abroad. At the same time she also performed in the bands Mai (2004) and Toz Ve Toz (2007), and in 2009 she formed the duo Seni Görmem İmkansız (It's Unfeasible For Me To See You) with Tuğçe Şenoğul. After several years Akyol embarked on a solo career and, utilising the services of the three-piece band Bubituzak, released her first full-length Develerle Yaşıyorum (I’m Living With Camels) in 2014. Mixing up traditional Turkish melodies and structures with elements of psychedelia, surf rock and grunge, underpinned by a distinctively elegant and at times hypnotic vocal delivery, she was soon established as one of the country's most compelling contemporary voices with one eye locked on the past and the other fixed on future horizons. In addition, the unconventional theatricality she lends to her craft, whether performing live or conceptualising albu
Gaye Su Akyol
Singer, songwriter, composer and producer Gaye Su Akyol combines the opposites of traditional Anatolian music, classical Turkish music, psychedelia, surf rock and post-punk with her futuristic approach. Gaye Su Akyol, who released her debut album Develerle Yaşıyorum (I Stay with Camels) in 2014, defines her music as »universal in concept, local in spirit«.
In 2016, she released her first international album Hologram İmparatorluğu (Hologram Empire) with German record label Glitterbeat and Istanbul-based Dunganga Records, which she founded together with Ali Güçlü Şimşek, and expanded her audience with numerous concerts and festival appearances in Turkey, Europe, North America, the Middle and Far East. The album received rave reviews from The Recent York Times, Pitchfork, The Observer, The Guardian, The Wire and many other major media outlets. The lyrics and music of her third album, İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir, released in 2018, which she describes as »a rehearse of dreaming«, are her own; as with her first two albums, she took on the roles of producer in the production, arrangement and recording phases and art director in the visua
“Anadolu Ejderi” is the fourth album in GSA’s discography. Like her other albums, it is a completely independent DIY manifesto that draws its strength from its freedom and refusal of accountability to anyone. Consisting of songs Akyol has written in the past five years, it is released by her boutique record label, Dunganga Records, in Turkey, and Glitterbeat Records worldwide, as were her two previous albums, Hologram İmparatorluğu and İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir.
This album is the awakening of a mythological dragon from a deep sleep in Anatolian lands. The simultaneous transformation of millions of cells, awaiting a autograph in their caves, into a whole organism. A call to resistance, reiterating that collective action is the only remedy against pure evil, in this reality where every person is required to grasp how to be their own superheroes, the voyage of a submarine organization in an ocean of memories stolen from a society.
A ‘contra-reality’ fiction, answering the question rising from destroyed cities, from the cultures that were intended for annihilation along with those cities, from intertwined meanings, from undisputed, unripened ideas, ‘What would it be like otherwise?’ An av