A Live Benjamin (featuring Gunnar Halle & Berke Can Özcan)

by Big Beats Big Times

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1.	Buried Treasure 00:40	buy track
2.	Oneness 04:01	buy track
3.	In My Garden 03:53	buy track
4.	Collecting Leaves 02:29	buy track
5.	The Wind-Up Bird 04:49	buy track
6.	With A Bow 04:24	buy track
7.	Whale's Blood Stream 01:18	buy track
8.	Benjamin 04:07	buy track
9.	Crazy Personalities 01:21	buy track
10.	No Heads Better 06:10	buy track
11.	Memories Like Fingerprints 06:51	buy track
12.	Mex I Can 05:57	buy track

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Gunnar Halle / trumpet, bells, effects
Berke Can Özcan / drums, percussion, samples, steel drum, gongs, windwand

Hail Hail !!

On the 30th of April 2013 (International Jazz Day), Gunnar Halle and Berke Can Özcan met in Istanbul to perform a “nothing but jazz” kind of set at Babylon. The album “A Live Benjamin”s Bandcamp exclusive edition here documents these unique improvisers musical journey at this particular concert divided into 12 tracks (including 3 never released tracks before: an opener and two encore takes).

Keeping the beat;
Remember this.

The windwand is a magical breath.

John Cage once said:
“Words are only noises”.

The tongue is a wand.
The tongue is a wand.
The tongue is a wand.

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released June 24, 2022

Recorded by Ozan Murat
Mixed and Mastered by Pharaoh Talin
Drawings and Cover Design: Felix Ryder
Download includes bonus stills from the live footage.

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Big Beats Big Times Istanbul, Turkey

Big Beats Big Times is the collaboration-loving alter ego of Berke Can Ozcan. It’s like an ever-changing band that is not actually a band, but an idea.

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