Şevket Akıncı

Şevket Akıncı, born in 1972 in Turkey, is a guitarist, composer, arranger and improviser. He has studied composition at the berklee college of music. after releasing his album uçurumda açan as a songwriter in 1996, he moved from traditional jazz (neşet ruacan trio), free improvisation and free jazz (ıslak köpek, century, dead country, holy ghost) and fusion (lifeline, weed) towards Turkish classical music (elektronik kumpanya) and several other musical genres, taking part in projects (Şirin Soysal’s, Ruşen Alkar’s, Öykü Aras, albums, Mugwump, Sputnik Sweetheart, Mutant, Konjo) that blended arts such as literature, dance, cinema, architecture, theatre, the plastic arts, painting and many more with music. He also was commissioned to write a composition to commemorate Beethoven’s 250th birthday, by a festival in Duisburg. A frequent participant in free improv festivals in Europe, the United States and Japan, Şevket Akıncı has played with renowned artists in the genre such as Ernst Reijseger, Bob Moses, Butch Morris, Tristan Honsinger, Michael Moore, Tim Hodgkinson, Anthony Coleman, Mark O’Leary, Huun-Huur-Tu, Eugene Chadbourne, Luc Ex, Wolter Wierbos, Ute Wasserman, Sussan Deyhim, Axel Dörner, Tomeka Reid, Jun Kawasaki, Aydın Esen, Nick Mazarella and Le Quan Ninh. Şevket Akıncı has over twenty albums to his name.