At the beginning of their careers they still played gruff garage-punk rock; now in their duo project Jakuzi the Istanbul-based musicians Kutay Soyocak and Taner Yücel blend cool synth pop from the 80s with the melodic inventiveness of Turkish arabesque music. In 2017 the devoted melancholics and precise music machinists made quite a splash Europe-wide with their debut album “Fantezi Müzik”. In their concerts the elegiac songs escalate into seemingly boundless Krautrock improvisations: motoric beats and addictive lamentation in a most beautiful synthesis.

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