Erlik Khan, by Erdem Helvacıoğlu & Bruce Tovsky

Erlik Khan

by Erdem Helvacıoğlu & Bruce Tovsky

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

14

releases

Get all 14 ERDEM HELVACIOGLU releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Esther's Memory, Listening Through Istanbul (Original Documentary Soundtrack), Fields and Fences, Planet X, Erlik Khan, Timeless Waves, Freedom to the Black, Eleven Short Stories, and 6 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$42.25 USD or more (50% OFF)

	1.	Invocation 29:29
	2.	Ascendance 20:27

about

Erlik Khan is the god of death and underworld in Turkish and Mongolian mythology. This collaboration between Turkish experimental genre-hopper and multi-media artist Erdem Helvacıoğlu and Brooklyn, NY contextualizer Bruce Tovsky is a truly otherworldly experience.

Featuring two prickly longform works fusing GuitarViol (a hybrid stringed instrument), lap steel, random acoustics, and processed electronics into a colorful, polyglot stew, the enigmatic duo forge dense, dark, quivering soundscapes that recall nothing less than Thomas Koner, Shinjuku Thief, & Lull's isolationist climes skyrocketing through the improvisational smears first championed by the likes of AMM and Zbigniew Karkowski. Erlik Khan is also the first recording of its kind to combine electric lapsteel and guitarviol with live electronics, an aural hybrid navigating various sonic eddies and frequency-intensive night terrors.

credits

released June 27, 2012

Erdem Helvacıoğlu: Togaman GuitarViol, live electronics
Bruce Tovsky: Oahu Tonemaster lapsteel, live electronics

1. Invocation 29:30

2. Ascendance 20:27

Produced by Erdem Helvacıoğlu

Recorded by Bruce Tovsky
Skeleton Studio, Brooklyn, NY

Edited and mixed by Erdem Helvacıoğlu
HELVACIOGLU Studio, Istanbul

Mastered by Pieter Snapper, Babajim Istanbul Studios & Mastering

All realtime compositions by Erdem Helvacıoğlu & Bruce Tovsky

Special thanks: Tracy Wuischpard, Native Instruments and Esin Uslu

license

about

ERDEM HELVACIOGLU New York, New York

One-man guitarviol orchestra. Sound explorer. Storytelling with sound.

erdemhelvacioglu.com

contact / help

Contact ERDEM HELVACIOGLU

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Erlik Khan, you may also like:

Focal Point of a Scattered Mind
by Anders Jakobsen

Rippling electronic music full of pointillist blips and crackling rhythms, alternately rhythmic and melodic. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2023
go to album
Birds (in my mind anyway)
by DOC SLEEP

The first LP from nightlife cornerstone Melissa Maristuen, aka Doc Sleep, turns away from the dancefloor and toward the personal. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 21, 2023
go to album
Hy!
by A.L. Viktor

Whimsical psychedelic melodies and heavy percussive workouts collide on the debut LP by A.L. Viktor. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 31, 2023
go to album
Cosmic Planta
by Ozoyo

This plant-themed EP draws from different genres, including experimental beats, hip-hop, and ambient. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 9, 2022
go to album
Unspoken Words
by Max Cooper

An introspective multi-media experience showcasing experimental electronic dreamscapes alongside short films by an array of visual artists. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 31, 2022
go to album
Long Player
by Jan The Man

This ambient pop album from Chute Records label head Jan the Man captures melancholy, contemplative moods simply, and without words. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 15, 2021
go to album
ShadowPlay EP
by el nino diablo

These four electronic songs combine ominous moods with whirring rhythms; fascinating and immersive. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 30, 2021
go to album