Ahmet Aslan

Ahmet Aslan, Kurdish-Zazaki musician, cousin of Mikail Aslan Ahmet Aslan was born in Eastern Turkey, in province of Dersim. In his youth he was interested in painting and learned to play the Tembur (Kurdish three-stringed long-necked lute). After studying in Istanbul, he moved to Germany. Once there, he began intensively to play the acoustic guitar. Some time later he decided to start a solo career as a Kurdish Folk musician with pop and jazz influences. His band uses as well acoustic guitars and bass guitar as traditional string and percussion instruments.

Ahmet Aslan, Kurdish-Zazaki musician, cousin of Mikail Aslan Ahmet Aslan was born in Eastern Turkey, in province of Dersim. In his youth he was interested in painting and learned to play the Tembur (Kurdish three-stringed long-necked lute). After studying in Istanbul, he moved to Germany. Once there, he began intensively to play the acoustic guitar. Some time later he decided to start a solo career as a Kurdish Folk musician with pop and jazz influences.

His band uses as well acoustic guitars and bass guitar as traditional string and percussion instruments. Albums: * 2004 - Va û Waxt (Wind und Zeit / Wind and Time / Rüzgar ve Zaman) * 2007 - Veyve Milaketu (Tanz der Engel / Dance of the Angels / Meleklerin Dansı) Members of Ahmet Aslan's Ensemble: - Ahmet Aslan - acoustic guitar & tembur - Selman Aslan - tembur & cura - Ulas Dilekli - tembur - Yilmaz Yurtsever - percussion - Mehmet Celik - e-bass His story with his own words: The only time when I was truly myself was during my childhood. Then, when I was 5 years old, my parents registered me at the local office of administration. Probably at that moment I also lost my original self. The only thing I liked at school, when I was that age, was painting. I believed I could paint away what I had lost.

Although the paintings never reflected my true self I still became the best in my age group in Turkey. That happiness also didn't last song: I watched my father use the paintings for firewood so he could enjoy his cup of tea and smoke his cigarettes. (Painting was not considered a serious vocation). During my time at the Lyceum I learned to play the Tambur. Through the instrument I longed to express my true self.

I went from Diyarbekir to the conservatorium of Istanbul, always improving my skill, but failing to find a personal connection/affinity. In Germany I even lost contact with the Tambur. Then I met the guitar and he helped me rekindle my relationship with the tambur (instrument of my ancestry). Now we are an union of Three. With the music we made I felt I had reached a point before the Dawn of Time. Is what I was tought the truth? Does history really start at zero? Is zero even in the right place? (Or have we reached the limits of our understanding?) User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..