Istanbul Superband Plays Omer Goksel

Istanbul Superband Plays Omer Goksel

Omer Goksel

Aycan Teztel: Conductor, trombone, additional keyboards
Levent Altındağ: Tenor sax, soprano sax, flute, bariton sax
Şenova Ülker: Trumpet, flügelhorn
Yahya Dai: Bariton sax, alto sax, tenor sax, EWI
Gökay Gökşen: Trombone
Doğan Aykon: Trombone
Eray Zikguş: Bass trombone
Serdar Barçın: Alto sax, flute
Meriç Demirkol: Alto sax
Halil İbrahim Işık: Trumpet, flugelhorn
Erkut Gökgöz: Trumpet, flugelhorn
Serkan Özyılmaz: Piano
Gülden Teztel: Piano
Ömer Göksel: Sequencer programming, additional keyboards
Ercüment Ateş: Guitar
Eylem Pelit: Bass
Volkan Öktem: Drums 

Fatih Erkoç: Vocal performance on Tren
Ercan Irmak: Ney, kaval on Kervan
Hüsnü Şenlendirici: Clarinet on Çökertme 
Jozi Levi: Percussion
Mehmet Akatay: Percussion
Hamdi Akatay: Percussion
Ernesto Herrera: Percussion
P & S friends: Strings
Ayşin Kiremitçi: English horn, oboe
Ömer Göksel: Composer, all tunes except Çökertme (anonymous folk song)
Matt Harris: Arranger, all tunes except Baby Caretta and Veda
Kamil Özler: Arranger, Baby Caretta and Veda

Dave Cushman, Deniz Özdemir, Ömer Göksel: Copying
Recorded at MİAM İTÜ Dr. Erol Üçer Ses Kayıt Stüdyoları
Additional tracks recorded at OMI's
Mixed at OMI's by Alp Turaç with Ömer Göksel and Aycan Teztel 
(special thanks to Istvan Leel-össy)
Recording engineers: Pieter Snapper, Reuben de Lautour, Ömer Göksel
Digital editing: Reuben de Lautour, Ömer Göksel and Alp Turaç
Additional mixing & mastering: Bob Katz, Digital Domain Studios, Florida, USA
Produced by: Aycan Teztel and Ömer Göksel
Executive producer: Ömer Göksel

ARTISTS

Eylem Pelit

Eylem Pelit

Bass guitar

Fatih Erkoç is the son of Hasan Erkoç, an oud musician. He gave a violin to his son when Fatih was three years old. Fatih studied at Istanbul Municipality Conservatory.

Senova Ülker started his education in trumpet at the Ankara State Conservatory in 1969 and completed it upon his graduation with honors from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 1979.

Serkan Özyılmaz was born in Istanbul in 1976. He studied piano with Metin Ülkü, Lale Önge, and Hülya Ardıç at the State Conservatory of Mimar Sinan University.

Volkan Öktem was born on June 25, 1970 in Izmir. He became interested in music around the age of 7.

Yahya Dai

Yahya Dai

Saxophone

Yahya Dai was born in Ankara in 1963. In 1974 he started playing soprano block flute and then switched to saxophone in 1981.