Guitar: Ercüment Gül
Bass Guitar: Halil Çağlar Serin
Drums: Turgut Alp Bekoğlu
The band consisting of 3 different musicians from 3 different generations perform its own compositions. As a genre, it’s a lend of jazz, funk, fusion and ethnic Turkish music. Their album is released by Kalan Müzik as CD and on digital platforms.
Ercüment Gül was born in Istanbul in 1981. He started to music with playing piano at the age of 5 and had his first electric guitar, when he was 13. He tried to discover the music and the guitar without any training and education for many years. In later years, he learned the music with master-apprentice relationship.
He studied in university BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering and MBA, as well. During his university years, he took guitar lessons from Sarp Maden and Emre Karabulut, who are very important jazz guitarists in Turkey. He played in lots of bars, cafes and concert halls in a variety of styles, such as jazz, blues, funk, R&B and rock. Then he met with Erkan Oğur and unwittingly set into a deep and long relationship with music. He exceled his playing abilities with Erkan Oğur and worked with him for many years about jazz guitar, fretless guitar, mysticism music, and Turkish music. He met incidentally with Aydın Esen too, who is another legendary name, and worked with him on modern music and advanced jazz harmony. Esen made the following comments for him; “Ercüment Gül is a very talented and musical guitar player. Give him the chance to explore and go forward with the beautiful sounds he is offering. I recommend him highly.”