Dareyns

Emine Bostanci received a grant to develop her debut album under the stage name Dareyn. Her latest repertoire with this new set-up is an invitation to discover one's own story of life, death. The sentimental compositions take the audience on a journey to explore "their inner 7 heavens". Each "heaven" represents its own quality based on historical, esoteric and psychoanalytical stories and interpretations in Christian, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish and African sources.

Emine has a passion for stringed instruments that goes beyond playing. Growing up in Istanbul, she started on the kemenche - an instrument that appears in various guises in Eastern Mediterranean countries. While already studying Turkish classical music and musicology at university, she also apprenticed with the city's leading guitar maker; all to gain an even better understanding of her chosen medium. Later in life, she expanded her studies of Cretan lyra with Ross Daly, and today she has an academic career researching and teaching music in Amsterdam. Her project is a conversation between different tonal languages and rhythmic dialects: Ottoman makam and taksim; interjections into Sufi music; and millennia-old melodic responses from the Silk Road. In this dialogue, contemporary classical is transformed by modal shifts in perspective.