Five countries, one band – Between Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Turkey, Derya Yildirim & Grup Şimşek are rocking Turkish pop music. Since their first performance together at the 2014 New Hamburg Festival, the quintet has walked in the footsteps of Anatolian folk icons such as Selda Bağcan, Barış Manço and Özdemir Erdoğan, giving Turkish musical heritage its own twist, framed by laid-back psychedelia. and tambourines. Yildirim’s haunting vocals, his saz playing and Grup Şimşek’s jazz-, funk- and pop-inspired instrumentation can be understood not only in their well-thought-out compositions, but also in their art of improvisation, which you urgently need to convince yourself of live.