<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">ID</h2>My nickname:&nbsp;My friends call me Kora. Sometimes I am Ladies on Records. Another time I am Eat Music with Culture.I’ve listened recently:&nbsp;Hania Rani - Live from studio S2.Where I’ve danced recently: In Gura Portitei - a small fisherman village in the south of Romania at a festival organized by VRWT crew from Bucharest.I live in: Princes' Islands, Burgazada.My belonging is:&nbsp;Connecting more to my beloved people and nature, which makes me feel at home also outside of my country.&nbsp;<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">SHOOT THE BREEZE</h2>The most recent project of <a href="https://www.ladiesonrecords.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" fr-original-style="" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"></a><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.ladiesonrecords.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Ladies on Records</a>&nbsp;is titled "Intimacy of Longing", a beautifully and collectively curated mixtape that explores the hidden stories of female immigrants from Turkey in Germany with Turkish songs of longing. Could you tell us the inspiration of this project?&nbsp;“Intimacy of Longing” is a curatorial project that explores women’s memories of migration to Germany. It is the most recent project of Ladies on Records and was created to bring attention to women’s contribution to the common memory of the Turkish migration to Germany. Through the years of my life in Turkey, the context of migration to Germany was present in people’s memory but also in music, which I am very much interested in.&nbsp;<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/6/1657366812957.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.72" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Kornelia with her lovely records<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">I have been collecting records from Turkey for almost a decade and the topic of the exodus to Germany was always present. I focus in my exploration mostly on women’s activity and their way of expressing important personal and social issues. 2021 was the 60th anniversary of the Turkish - German migration deal and I was invited by the Goethe Institute in Istanbul to curate a project on this occasion. I had no doubts that I wanted women to be storytellers here.&nbsp;How does living in Istanbul affect your approach to female immigrants from Turkey in Germany?Living in Istanbul allows me to be close to the people and their stories. Everybody I know has family members who migrated to Europe, mostly Germany, and their testimonies were very important in understanding the phenomenon. Those memories were equally important as those told to me by the women I met in Germany. To get a big picture, I needed to immerse myself in both realities - here in Turkey and there in Germany.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/6/1657366828253.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.71" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Neşe Alkan, Şenay and others<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Besides music culture, you are also an avid researcher of the food cultures of cities and communities. You have co-written a book with Italo Rondinella, named Pazar//Shuk. The book takes the reader on a cruise through the food markets of Istanbul and Tel Aviv with stories and photographs. Can you tell us about the creative and curatorial process of the book?I am a pazar addict. I love to explore neighborhoods and observe people, get the freshest local ingredients, try new products and learn about the cuisine. My partner Italo Rondinella, who is a photographer, shares the same passion. We both find the reality of marketplaces very exciting and kind of romantic - our first dates were not in bars or restaurants, but at the local markets in Istanbul. We wanted to catch the beauty of markets and share it with others. We both have lived in Istanbul long enough to have our favorite districts and our favorite markets, but together we discovered more of them.&nbsp;Our goal was to tell the story of the cities without exoticism and orientalism but with pure admiration of real-life and real people. Tel Aviv has been one of my beloved cities and I almost feel like at home there - that is why bringing those two realities and the people together has been one of my goals for years. Thanks to Elazar Zinvel - the cultural attache of Israel in Istanbul, who shares the same goals, the Pazar// Shuk project came into existence as a book and a multimedia website with soundscapes of the markets from Istanbul and Tel Aviv.&nbsp;Within 6 months, we managed to explore the universe of the markets in Istanbul and Tel Aviv. We have met sellers, customers, foodies and chefs, and also discovered the stories of the neighborhoods as well as demographic/ social changes in the cities. We made friends, took photos of the everyday actors of the marketplaces, and recorded videos field recordings. The book was beautifully designed by Zeynep Özbay and published by Paper Street Co.

Aposto Istanbul

In the beginning, she moved to Istanbul to explore the music of females from Turkey and the Middle East, and she discovered more. Meet Kornelia: Anthropologist of culture, record collector, DJ, writer, journalist, and Istanbulite. 

Kornelia Binicewicz

<h1>Derinlerde bir yolculuk: Hania Rani</h1><figure class="image"><img src="https://images.aposto.com/images-2020-06-25T10:55:31.771Z.jpeg" alt="Fotoğraf: Nat Kontraktewicz"><figcaption>Fotoğraf: Nat Kontraktewicz</figcaption></figure> Bazı müzisyenler vardır, performans sergileyeceği şehri, mekânı, onu dinlemeyi gelecek insanları öncesinde düşünür, hayal eder. Vakti varsa aynı havayı solumak, konser öncesinde birkaç diyalog kurmak ve sokaktaki yüzlere kısacık da olsa aşina olmak ister. Piyanist ve besteci Hania Rani de onlardan… Bu yüzden onu tanırken kendinizi göstermekten ve kulağınıza çaldığı müzikten çekinmeyin.Polonya’nın Gdańsk şehrinde doğan ve burada 12 yıl klasik müzik eğitimi alan Rani, mezun olur olmaz başkent Varşova’nın yolunu tuttu. İçinde Chopin ve Şostakoviç’ten Dave Brubeck ve Moderat’a gibi isimlerin olduğu bir müzikal zevk inşa eden Rani, zihninde dönen sesleri ve kulağına dolan melodileri zamanla büyüttü. Yanı başından Max Richter, Miles Davis, Nils Frahm, Murcof, Portico Quartet, Radiohead’i hiç ayırmadı. Çünkü onun için müziğe ve sese olan öznel yaklaşım, ilham almak için yeterliydi. Klasik müzik repertuvarının dışına çıkarak verdiği ikinci konserinin ardından kariyerinin ne yöne gideceğini anladı. Bu konseri bir milat kabul etti ve albüm çalışmalarına başladı. Üstünden bir yıl geçmemişti ki <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5aSfqNLP3YIw7NYHQjItlX?si=8cUl5UUFQe-9L-Ao_iFFEQ">Biala flaga</a> isimli ilk uzunçaları gün yüzüne çıktı.Sanatçı yönünü kendinden bağımsız düşünmeyen, müziği sınırlardan, ayrımlardan ve türlerden uzaklaşarak kendi iletişim yolu olarak gören Hania Rani için geriye tek bir şey kalmıştı. Kalbinin sesini dinleyerek, üreterek ve paylaşarak yürümek. O da bunu yaptı. Şehirler gezdi. Konserler verdi. Yeni insanlar, farklı yüzler tanıdı. Geçtiğimiz yıl yayımlanan <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0qexfmJhl1Ao6mBzgZpA95?si=r80mEH73Qv-EpLdHSI8kyg">Esja</a> ve birkaç hafta önce paylaşılan <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://open.spotify.com/album/0lCjdc69ig4VmMzExMcCmA?si=f1pnvquqQvm0c-8dsnxBNA">Home</a> albümleriyle müziği daha fazla insana ulaştı. Şimdilik arşivinde üç kalburüstü albüm ve İzlanda’da <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://youtu.be/bB34_eLCLKo">F Major</a> şarkısına çektiği muazzam bir video klip var. Bence kendisiyle tanışmak için yeter de artar bile…

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