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October 22, 2024


21 Aralık'ta Congulus'la beraber Ankara'da Haymotlas'tayız. Beş yıl aradan sonra Ankara'da ilk konserimiz.


October 7, 2024


We are travelling to Skopje next week to rehearse with the Macedonian bass player Deni Omeragić known from alternative jazz and experimental rock acts such as Svetlost, Odron and Strog Post. Together with him we will also play three warm-up shows in the region as a power trio, two of them also featuring local guest musicians.  


15.10: Skopje - Kotur (feat: Ninoslav Spirovski)

16.10: Kruševac - AKC Gnezdo

18.10: Belgrade - KC Živa (feat. Damjan Brkić (Crno Dete), Buzukije Dunavski (Hotel Makedonija), Vukašin Đelić (Dol), Tomislav Marjanović (Crno Dete), Nikola Urosević (The Cyclist Conspiracy))


Özüm İtez will also play a solo show in Belgrade (17.10 - Guvernanta) which will also feature a solo set by Vukašin Đelić and a joint improv session.


September 2, 2024


Our European tour is postponed to 2025 due to a change in personelle.

However, we might play a short tour in late October in Serbia and Macedonia with a new bass player. Updates might follow soon.


July 2, 2024:


Dört kişilik orijinal kadromuzla 25. yılımızı kutlayacağımız 4 Ağustos Burgazada Müzik Festivali konserimiz önce Bant Mag'a röportaj verdik: Burada.


We gave an interview to Bant Mag before our concert on August 4 at Burgazada Music Festival where we will celebrate our 25th year with our original 4-piece line up: Here (in Turkish).


June 6, 2024:


A new studio track release after a long time:


Our 24-minute improvisational piece 'Montebelluna Sunset', which was recorded seven years ago, finally found itself a home in the most recent volume of 'Intimnosti', a compilation series that features ambient, drone, experimental, and improvisational music that is meant to be listened privately, curated by Ivan Čkonjević, an improvisational guitar player based in Novi Sad, Serbia.


Montebelluna Sunset was an experiment in creating a very slow and calm doom jazz piece that was based on a melodic scale inspired by the Tempang Sunda music of the island of Java. It was recorded at Outside Inside Studio in 2017 by Matt Bordin during the same session where our album 'Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence' was created. It was tentatively meant to be a part of that album, but was obviously too long for the vinyl. For long years we didn't know where to release it until we were invited to contribute to Intimnosti.


There are numerous other tracks from the Montebelluna session that remain unreleased, which were recorded for a different album but at the end didn't make a coherent whole. They will surface in the coming months or yea


May 5, 2024:


4 Ağustos'ta Burgazada Müzik Festivali'ndeyiz.

Ekim ayında Orta ve Doğu Avrupa'da 25. yıl turnesi var.


Playing at Burgazada Music Festival on August 4.

25th year anniversary tour in Central and Eastern Europe in October.



April 17, 2024:


First Hayvanlar Alemi concert after 5 years will happen in Istanbul, on April 27, at the 2-day event 'Yeraltı 9000' which will be dealing with Turkey's underground scene in the 90s and 2000s.

5 yılın ardından ilk Hayvanlar Alemi konseri, Inverted Spectrum Records, KargART, ve Tayfun Polat tarafından ortaklaşa düzenlenen, 90'lar ve 2000'lerin yerli yeraltı müziğini konu alan  'Yeraltı 9000' etkinliğinin ilk gününde, 27 Nisan'da gerçekleşecek.


Ayrıntılar burada.


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The Fifth volume
in the series of 'The Music of the Secret Society that Owns Belgrade', compiled by H.A. drummer Işık Sarıhan, is out now on Inverted Spectrum Records.


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February 28, 2024:


Hayvanlar Alemi is finally awakening from the long hiatus that began with the pandemic and continued due to georgraphical/logistic reasons. Hopefully some concert and tour news soon.  




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Two new compilation albums curated by the Hayvanlar Alemi drummer Işık Sarıhan, out on Inverted Spectrum Records:


"The Music of the Secret Society that Owns Belgrade - Volume 4"



"The Underground Jazz Scene in Budapest Today: an Adventurous Introduction"


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Our new live album "Evidence of Life on Earth: Concert Recordings from Ankara, Istanbul and Belgrade, 2018-2019" is out on Inverted Spectrum Records as 28 March, 2023.

See a video trailer here.


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We're currently working on a live album culled from high quality concerts recordings from the period shortly before the pandemic.


We also compiled a list of all of our past shows, with links to the audio/video footage where available, which can be found in the newly added website section "live". 


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New cassette release:

"Hayvanlar Alemi - 2004-2008" (Vaykorus Tapes, 2020)


Limited edition of 77 copies.


Side A features a selection from the self-released output of Hayvanlar Alemi from 2004-2008, compiled by Tolga Havran, a veteran blogger, music collector and walking encyclopedia of underground music in Turkey. Side B consists of the 8th volume of Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series, featuring two previously unreleased live tracks from a 2006 performance in Nefes Bar, Ankara. 


For orders, send a message to Tolga Havran on Facebook or Instagram.

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A rare live footage of the song Ineffable Dresscode is released by Onursal Yazman Archives as part of Govid-20: Throwback Video Fest. The video captures the last concert of Hayvanlar Alemi before the pandemic where they celebrated the band's 20th anniversary at Karga, Istanbul, in November 2019.


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Hayvanlar Alemi featured with the track Gökte Güller Açıyor in the limited cassette compilation "2000'lerde Bağımsız Müzik" by Vaykorus Tapes, featuring 23 underground Turkish bands from the first decade of the 21st century.


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New video: Thundercloud Museum from Psychedelia in Terms of Turbulence. Directed by Onur Ceritoğlu.


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We have contributed to the album "No Gigs Does Not Have To Mean No Music" with our song "Referendum Day". It's a free-download compilation by the Australian label Desert Highways which features heavy music from 205 bands from around the world. Link here


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The first video from our new album "Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence" is published: Kuşkonmaz MMXVII. Directed by Andy. Shot in Tel Aviv, 2020.


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Our new album "Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence" is out on Subsound Records as of 27 March 2020, on LP, CD and digital. You can listen and order the album here: 

hayvanlaralemi.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelia-in-times-of-turbulence


Album release tour in Europe is postponed due to the coronavirus disaster, and is expected to happen whenever it will be possible to organize concerts once again.


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The third and final item of the 20th year archival releases, and the seventh volume of Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series, "Amcalarla Teyzeler", is now available on Soundcloud. It's a semi-electronic song with vocals from 2008 recorded in unusual circumstances in Stockholm.


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"Live in Kadıköy 2009", a lo-fi recording of a complete concert, is out on Inverted Spectrum Records. It's the sixth volume of Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series, and the second archival release to mark Hayvanlar Alemi's 20th year. 


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With great pleasure, here we present you the 5th volume of Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series. It's titled "Leftovers of Champions: For the Occasion of 20 Years of Hayvanlar Alemi" and is now available to listen and download on Inverted Spectrum Records. The album includes nine unreleased studio recordings from various eras in the history of Hayvanlar Alemi: Three compositions that have not been released in any form, three alternate versions of previously released songs, and three improvisations. Comes with extensive liner notes for H.A. scholars. This will be followed by two other archival releases very soon, and a proper new album in March 2020.


Ayrıca, yirminci yıl konserlerimizde albümün kaset versiyonu da 20 kopya olarak yanımızda bulunacak:


Yirminci yılımızı kutlama bahanesiyle iki konser vereceğiz:

29.11.2019: Haymatlos, Ankara. (Terra ile)

30.11.2019: Karga, İstanbul. (Destroy Earth ve Hakan Tamar ile)


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The year 2019 is the 20th anniversary of Hayvanlar Alemi. We found this a good opportunity to dive into our vault and release the fifth, sixth and seventh volumes of Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series. The fifth, titled "Leftovers of Champions", will be out in a week or so on Inverted Spectrum Records. It contains a variety of unreleased studio material, including discarded compositions, alternate versions, and improvisations. This will be followed by the lo-fi recording of an entire concert from 2009, to be released in mid-November. The seventh volume will be a single, coming out before the new year, containing a very odd item from the H.A. vault, the release of which kept getting postponed for eleven years. It's a semi-electronic home recording with vocals. In the next few months we will also be posting various memorabilia from the H.A. history, on Facebook and on our Instagram page opened just today.



Our proper new album, by the way, is coming out on Subsound Records in spring 2020.


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Yirminci yılımızı kutlama bahanesiyle iki konser vereceğiz:

29.11.2019: Haymatlos, Ankara. (Terra ile)

30.11.2019: Karga, İstanbul. (Destroy Earth ve Hakan Tamar ile)


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Signed with Subsound Records for the new album. Release date to be announced in the near future. 


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Two live versions of "Thundercloud Museum", a song from the forthcoming Hayvanlar Alemi album, are now available: 


Video version, recorded at Haymatlos, Ankara, 22.12.2018.


Downloadable audio version, recorded at Karga, Istanbul, 25.12.2018.


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Playing in Berlin, House of World Cultures,  March 22, 2019 (Find the File festival, Sublime Frequencies label night, together with Baba Commandant and a DJ set by Alan Bishop.)


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Hayvanlar Alemi - Türkiye Turnesi - Aralık 2018


21.12. Peyote - Eskişehir

22.12. Haymatlos - Ankara

25.12. KargArt - İstanbul


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Hayvanlar Alemi - Central European Tour - November 2018


05.11. A BETON - Győr (with Maybe Tomorrow)

06.11. Kramladen - Wien (with Half Baked Cheese)

07.11. Kasárna Karlín - Praha (with Harvey Rushmore & the Octopus)

09.11. Gólya - Budapest (with Antropomorf and DJ Suhaid)

10.11. Kosztolányi Dezső Színház - Subotica (with Neuroleptic Trio)

11.11. Kulturni centar GRAD - Beograd (with The Cyclist Conspiracy)


(Tour Launch Party: Özüm İtez Solo Guitar Performance @ Kék Ló Budapest - 03.11)



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Hayvanlar  Alemi - Altın Serüvenler (15 Golden Adventures) is  out on Shalgam Records on all digital platforms. It's a compilation that features also one new song, "Adventures in Addis".  Available on Apple Music, iTunesSpotify, Deezer and Bandcamp.



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We are playing at the II. Kolorádó Fesztivál, Budapest.

8 June 2017, Thursday, Gólya Udvar - 18:00.

https://kolorado.hu/en


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Hayvanlar Alemi will be playing at Cave12, Geneva on May 7, shortly after recording material for two new albums at  Ouside Inside Studio in Montebelluna, Italy.


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"Live in Krefeld 2014" is now available also on cassette on Dead Generation Records. Order from: deadgenerationrecords@gmail.com


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SoundBrut, Stockholm-based effects pedal company run by Hayvanlar Alemi members Özüm İtez and Hazar Mutgan has created its first commercial pedal DrVa.


www.soundbrut.com/

 

www.facebook.com/soundbrut


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Two new releases on Inverted Spectrum Records: "Ferrokrom", which includes rare  recordings of the 90s disbanded experimental band DAK from Ankara, and "Oily Underground", a compilation of non-mainstream contemporary bands from Texas, both compiled by Hayvanlar Alemi member Işık Sarıhan.


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We published a story of our first album Gaga, on the occassion of its 10th anniversary. / İlk resmi albümümüz Gaga'nın 10. yıldönümü bahanesiyle albümün hikayesini yayınladık.


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Hayvanlar Alemi'yle söyleşi: Babylon Blog


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Hayvanlar Alemi live video performance on Ehvenişer.

Four songs and a short interview. / Dört şarkı ve kısa bir söyleşi.


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New digital album release on Inverted Spectrum Records:

Hayvanlar Alemi - Live in Krefeld 2014


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Özüm İtez solo live video on Record Store Day.


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New digital   single  and video: Equatorial Lies 

Out on Pakapi Records.


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Takas Pazarı aralık 2015 sayısında Hayvanlar Alemi röportajı var: OKU.


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Inverted Spectrum Records, a digital record label project by Hayvanlar Alemi member Işık Sarıhan, is launched. The label releases experimental music, psychedelic rock and long lost material of disbanded bands, from Turkey and around the world. To see current and forthcoming releases, check the label's  Facebook  or Bandcamp page. / Hayvanlar Alemi elemanı Işık Sarıhan'ın dijital müzik şirketi projesi Inverted Spectrum Records yayın hayatına başladı. Türkiye'den ve dünyadan deneysel müzik, saykodelik rock ve dağılmış grupların kayıp çalışmalarını yayınlamayı planlayan Inverted Spectrum Records'a Facebook ve Bandcamp üzerinden ulaşılabilir.   


First two releases on the label are the digital reissue of the 2014 album  Twisted Souvenirs, and Tyro, the first solo album by Hayvanlar Alemi guitar player Özüm İtez.  / Inverted Spectrum Records'dan ilk iki yayın: 2014 tarihli Twisted Souvenirs'in dijital versiyonu, ve Hayvanlar Alemi gitaristi Özüm İtez'in ilk solo albümü Tyro.


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An in-depth interview with Hayvanlar Alemi conducted by Roman Rathert in the autumn of 2014 published in  It's Psychedelic Baby magazine.  / Roman Rathert'in Hayvanlar Alemi'yle yaptığı detaylı bir röportajı It's Psychedelic Baby magazine dergisinde okuyabilirsiniz.