Murat Ses

Who is Murat Ses?

Murat Ses is a Turkish keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements. He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian Music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish music scene for decades.

He worked with several bands: Meteorlar, Silüetler, Moğollar, Barış Manço and Kurtalan Ekspres, Edip Akbayram and Dostlar and Cem Karaca and Dervişan. Also, he founded Ağrı Dağı Efsanesi band. This band was dissolved in 1976 and 3 45 rpms. He migrated to Austria in 1979.

His album Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie d'hier à aujourd'hui was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Charles Cros Academie in Paris, France with Moğollar. The albums Automaton, Binfen and Culduz, all released in the 1990s, are parts of a trilogy with the concept: "The Timeless and Boundaryless Context of Culture and Civilization". Ses has had excellent press and airplay. His main influences are Pink Floyd, Traffic, Jimmy Smith, Eastern Mediterranean music, Levantine, and Central Asian cultures and music. He is the most important Turkish artist still internationally active and shaping today's independent electronic music scene.