First sounds:&nbsp;One of&nbsp;Discovery Stage’s traditional curiosities is about the music that was played at home, the first sounds that were burned into the memory. Rana’s home growing up was a joyful one with lots of guests, events, and parties. The chatter in the house overwhelmed the music. But the long road trips in the car with the whole family are where the music took the lead. Her memories include Simon &amp; Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Joan Baez, The Beatles, and Kenny Rogers. Most of them are still ringing in her ears even today.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/6/2/1657011685032.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="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Autumn colors, leaves, and the grey sky with Rana<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>&nbsp;The appeal of hitting things:&nbsp;She takes piano lessons so “The child can play an instrument.” Contrary to her sister, she is an active child. Pots, pans, tables… She hits whatever she can find. For a couple of months, she takes darbuka classes from a Boğaziçi University student. Noticing that she gets bored in piano class, her mother guides her toward the drums and she starts her drumming adventure in the 6th grade. Her instructor’s path follows jazz. The first few albums are purchased from Lale Plak, which now only lives in memory; Buddy Rich, Tony Williams, and just by chance, Fela Kuti… The Fela Kuti album that she bought because she liked the cover fires the Afrobeat flame within Rana.Double life: In Rana’s life, high school education and music classes go on together. She studies percussions with Engin Gürkey whom she met while playing in the school band. She regularly performs at Nardis and Jolly Joker with her teachers. Different from her friends, in her words, she leads a “double life.” This double life comes to a turning point in 2013.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/6/2/1657011709840.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="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">With Rana among the dry leaves<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>&nbsp;In the studio above the bread bakery:&nbsp;As she is in her senior year of high school, prep classes enter her life. On a day when she was bored in class, she takes a call from an unknown number just as an excuse to leave the classroom. Tarık Töre is on the line. He says they are looking for a drummer for their new garage rock band (now known as Palmiyeler.) They meet in the studio above the bread bakery across from Peyote. “These kids are covered in tattoos,” Rana recalls thinking, “So cool.” There’s activity in the street as they are leaving rehearsal. People are starting to chant. The music they just made and the excitement of the crowd mix together. It’s the first day of the Gezi protests.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/6/2/1657011740933.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="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Against the wind, or with its support?<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>Onstage / backstage:&nbsp;Rana is interested in areas other than music. “Doing music onstage and being in the team that makes these events possible backstage provides deep satisfaction for me” says Rana. Because what makes her happy is “creating experiences that touch people, and being part of an atmosphere where they can feel relaxed, have fun, and be themselves.”&nbsp;As she starts to find her direction as a drummer, she decides to get a master’s degree in Music Business. Destination: New York University.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/6/2/1657011777919.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="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Rana and her udu drum, voices heard from behind the glass<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>To stay or to go?&nbsp;New York City, according to Rana is “the meeting point of people who think they are doing the best in their fields.” But if you are not in a state of devoted work, the city spews you out. Even though it is an appealing place with endless potential, especially for someone in the music industry, Rana’s heart is where she gets to perform with Palmiyeler. “Being on stage in Turkey is a strong enough feeling to keep me here,” she says. Seeing her on stage is especially important for young women who want to do music.As a woman who had to work way more than male musicians to prove herself from the very first years when she started drumming, for Rana it is priceless when 18–19-year-old women come up to her after a concert and say they started drumming, or that they want to. She feels a responsibility. She feels all bands must guide musicians who are starting from scratch.<img lazy="loading" src="https://images.aposto.com/1200xauto/2022/6/2/1657011793840.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="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">New doors opening to Rana and a goodbye<div align="center" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><hr size="0" width="100%" align="center" fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"></div>Key:&nbsp;On this week’s Discovery Stage, Rana Uludağ holds the key that opens up new doors for us. We meet Greek artist Marina Satti who understood the importance of her own roots when she started studying at Berklee College of Music. Satti, who makes modern touches to traditional Greek music, has been on Rana’s radar in the last year.

Hello from Sunday evening. This week, we are closing up the Discovery Stage with Rana Uludağ as a guest. We visit Rana’s universe of sounds and take a closer look at the connections she has formed with music.You are going to read the 15th issue of the Discovery Stage that we started on the first days of autumn. We are always open to your feedback. Don’t forget that we are only an e-mail away.See you at Discovery Cinema on Wednesday right at 10.00.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/2/1657010980885.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;" ratio="0.67" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Rana’s bell with signatures of treasured musicians like Mulatu Astatke, Tony Allen, Billy Martin, Mark Guiliana, Jojo Mayer, and Marshall Allen on it<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">What’s in this issue?</h2>👋&nbsp;Backstage:&nbsp;With Rana and Artemis on growing music and growing with music 🚗&nbsp;Discovery Stage:&nbsp;The projections of the sounds emanating from Rana’s childhood home on her youth, her meeting with Palmiyeler, and her discovery of New York City. 🎒&nbsp;Lunchbox:&nbsp;Music and poetry readings, kite surfing, surprise jam sessions 🎶&nbsp;Songs remind me of you: Road songs from Nickodemus to Guts, and more<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Other ways to follow us:</h2>Instagram:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://link.aposto.com/click?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLmFwb3N0by5jb20vY2xpY2s/aXNzdWU9NjFiMzAxMDk1YzZlYmQwMDA2ZTgyMTNjJnB1Ymxpc2hlcj01ZWQzZWNkNmM1YTg2Y2NkMWUyNGNhNGEmbmV3c2xldHRlcj01ZWMxODNmZmQ0OTM4YjIxMWEyZGQ0MmImc3Vic2NyaWJlcj11bmRlZmluZWQmc291cmNlPXdlYiZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlMjUzQSUyNTJGJTI1MkZ3d3cuaW5zdGFncmFtLmNvbSUyNTJGZHVlbmRlbmV3c2xldHRlciUyNTJG" 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">@duendenewsletter</a>&nbsp; Twitter:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://link.aposto.com/click?uri=aHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLmFwb3N0by5jb20vY2xpY2s/aXNzdWU9NjFiMzAxMDk1YzZlYmQwMDA2ZTgyMTNjJnB1Ymxpc2hlcj01ZWQzZWNkNmM1YTg2Y2NkMWUyNGNhNGEmbmV3c2xldHRlcj01ZWMxODNmZmQ0OTM4YjIxMWEyZGQ0MmImc3Vic2NyaWJlcj11bmRlZmluZWQmc291cmNlPXdlYiZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlMjUzQSUyNTJGJTI1MkZ0d2l0dGVyLmNvbSUyNTJGZHVlbmRlX19fX19fXw==" 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">@duende_______</a>&nbsp;To many more meetings in the universe of sounds, Taner

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You are invited to the sounds of Rana’s childhood home, the phone call that changed her life, her discoveries onstage and backstage, and her creative journey in New York City.

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