Duo Murat Coşkun & Beatriz Picas "Souls"

With Murat Coskun: Frame drums, percussion, hang, voice Beatriz Picas: Cello, voice … “The initially surprising combination of world percussion, cello, and voices transforms into a novel yet convincing sound experience: singing with the cello, playing with the voice, bringing percussion to tears and laughter.” … Murat Coskun and Beatriz Picas are united by their great passion for music that emerges between worlds and styles. After a successful CD release tour in Turkey and numerous concerts in Germany and Portugal, the two have grown into a captivating duo: Picas, whose voice with its unique timbre touches the listener immediately, takes a completely individual path in the connection of cello and vocals. Coskun, as a master of his craft, plays his extensive percussion instruments so virtuously that he seems to immerse himself in the shared music blindfolded and intuitively. The initially surprising combination of world percussion, cello, and voices becomes a novel yet convincing sound experience: singing with the cello, playing with the voice, bringing percussion to tears and laughter. The live performance thrives on the intense and spontaneous exchange in the moment and the discovery of new sound and play spaces. Here, rhythmic precision effortlessly and virtuously meets imaginatively realized phrases and spontaneously captured impulses. Their Portuguese and Turkish roots can be sensed as a resonance for their joint compositions – one might feel the melancholy from the sea or the exuberance spiced with soul pain from the mountains. Current CD “SOULS” available at Bandcamp www.duo-coskun-picas.de Feel free to follow us on Instagram and Facebook.