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Artist
Gökhan Kırdar
12+ albums
turkishtrip-hopelectronicexperimentalelectro-ethnic
about
Gokhan Kirdar, born on June 2, 1970 in Aydin, is a Turkish film score composer. He attended 1988 Yildiz University in Istanbul for study of architecture. However, he devoted himself to music and gained soon success with his soundtrack performed in 1993 and albums thereafter. Returned to Izmir, Kirdar studied musicology at the University of Septemter 9th. He established his own music company Loopus Entertainment in 1997, and released the first Turkish electronic music album Trip with this label. Kirdar performed film scores for movies and TV series, which received awards or became very popular. Meanwhile, he contributes to a Turkish project titled "Self project" with his work "Tuur" on the synthesis of Turkish music instruments since 2000 BCE with electronic music. Notable works * 1999 Music of the "Best short film" Namaste awarded at Ankara Film festival. * 2002 Film score of 'Tekfur Sarayi ve Istanbul' ("Tekfur Palace and Istanbul") awarded with "Special spectators Award" at the Istanbul Documentary Film Festival. * 2002 Film score of the movie 'Aliya' awarded with "Best documentary film of the Year" by the Turkish Association of Documentary Journalists. * 2002 Film score of 'Firsat' ("Crude") awarded with "Best film" at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The music was released 2004 in the album 'Keyf' ("Pleasure"). The album was introduced the same year in Greece, Poland and Lebanon. The title song 'Keyf' took a place in an album released worldwide by EMI label. * Sin
