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BIOGRAPHY

MURAT SES
Composer, Arranger, Producer, Microtonal Synthetist
Father of Anadolu Pop™ and Electric Levantine™
Mentor Clouzine™ Magazine with Nihal Ses [Publisher]
Winner of Grand Prix du Disque de l'Academie Charles Cros

Billboard® charting Murat Ses is a Turkish-Austrian keyboard player and composer with strong Eurasian electronic elements.
He is creator of the Anadolu Pop style, a synthesis of Anatolian Music and Western elements that has been influencing Turkish music scene for decades.

 


His album Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie d'hier à aujourd'hui was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the Charles Cros Academie in Paris, France.
In the early 1990s Murat Ses developed a musical style he terms Anadolu Pop 2.0 (Electric Levantine). The main elements of the style are microtonal properties created on authentic Levantine scales, electronically produced instrument timbres and Western music.
It's an experimental form of Anadolu Pop.


This sound by Murat Ses has already charted five times on Billboard®.
On Billboard Hot New Singles Charts in January, February, July, October 2016 [Endless Dance, Anatolian Highway 3, Pockmarked Beauty 2, Strawberry Moon] and September 2017 [Nardugan (OpBe Dances)]
Voting member of Grammy®;

Five times Global Music Awards and six times Akademia Awards winner (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 in Dance Electronica, World Beat, Ambient and Instrumental), Hollywood Music Awards nominations (2016 and 2017);
Indie Music Channel Awards (2016/Best Male Emerging Artist of the Year, 2019/Best Dance Song and Best Dance Recording)

Indie Music Channel Radio Awards 2016, 2017 and 2018 in Hollywood/Best Dance Music Artist.

Anadolu Pop 2.0 Project feat Murat Ses, Nihal Ses and Cazgir won with Umbra an Akademia Award in 2018, Apus Apus in the same year, Man With Bean Teeth (Fasulye Disli Adam) and Asmalimescit 63/3 feat Mr Shammi in 2019, Phaeton in 2020, followed by OpBe Dances II and Torba Days both in 2021. 

Josie Music Awards (JMA) Artist of the Year 2019 (Techno/Electro).

http://www.muratses.com

Founder of the group Mogollar ®
MoÄŸollar ® is a registered trade mark of Murat Ses

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