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Ambient electronic dance beats combined with Sufi music and whirling doesn’t sound like a typical recipe for kid entertainment. Fortunately, kids aren’t hampered by preconceptions of what should be ...

ARKIN Allen is a glass-half-full kind of guy. As dark as recent days have been in his homeland of Turkey, the artist known by some as Mercan Dede looks towards the light. ''The whole world is facing ...

The eagerly anticipated debut feature film of Rue Morgue publisher Rodrigo Gudino, The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh, has named the man tasked with scoring the film. World music artist ...

Mercan Dede is an intriguing oddity. He's an Islamic devotional musician, and follower of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet whose habit of literally spinning with joy as he walked ...

Following its initial release in 2021, world-renowned composer Ludovico Einaudi invites his long-standing friend, the Turkish-Canadian DJ and composer Mercan Dede, to remix another selection of his ...

World-renowned Turkish musician and DJ Mercan Dede has announced his retirement from the music business. His new album, due out in October, will be his last, following 15 years of recording music. "I ...

World music sensation, producer and DJ Mercan Dede grew up in the Turkish city of Istanbul. Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents—Europe and Asia—and that duality is ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. "Our music is like a soundtrack for Istanbul," says Mercan Dede. Now based in Montreal, he grew up ...

The audience in Istanbul was shocked when Mercan Dede walked on stage. How could he have a red Mohawk and a pierced ear? How could he be in his early 30s? This musician who plays a traditional Turkish ...

The title of Turkish composer Mercan Dede’s disc means “water,” and it could symbolize his vision of international musical ideas flowing together. But even if this image and his electronic ...