Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (born September 24, 1974) is a Grammy nominated Turkish-American composer and CMES Harvard University fellow (2013–15) who is a jazz pianist and singer that also performs a number of Near and Middle Eastern instruments as well as the keyboardless synthesizer Continuum Fingerboard and the SANLIKOL Renaissance 17, a digital microtonal keyboard designed and conceived by himself. The Boston Globe calls Sanlıkol's music "colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling" and "not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized", "...and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world." He is a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory (NEC). He is also the director of the Intercultural Institute at NEC and the project director/curator of Nilüfer Municipality Dr. Hüseyin Parkan Sanlıkol Musical Instruments Museum.
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Top Tracks
- Devran: No. 2, Mevlan senin aşıkların devran iderler Hu ile
- Devran: No. 1, Ey gönül neylersin sen bu cihanı
- The Triumph: No. 5, Fetih "The Triumph"
- The Triumph: No. 4, Kenz "The Treasure"
- The Triumph: No. 3, Tecella "The Revelation"
- The Triumph: No. 2, Sir "The Mystery"
- The Triumph: No. 1, Kainat "The Universe"
- My Blues
- Buselik
- Nikriz Semai
- Hüseyni Jam
- Şedd-I Araban Şarkı
- One Melancholic Montuno
- A Children's Song
- Asumani
- Last Water - Remix
- World Hunters - Remix
- Vecd
- Saz Açış
- Ne Ötersin Dertli Dertli
Albums (24)
- 7 Shades of Melancholia (2025)
- Talk About a Turkish Blues (2024)
- Çalıcı Mehterler (The Musician Mehters) (2024)
- Turkish Hipster (2023)
- Estarabim (Radio Edit) (2023)
- Estarabim (2023)
- A Capoeira Turca (Baia Havası) (2023)
- A Gentleman Of Istanbul (2023)
- An Elegant Ritual (2021)
- (This Is) the Boston Beat (2021)
- The Rise Up: Stories of Strife, Struggle and Inspiration (2020)
- Abraham: Music for Three Faiths (feat. Jazzaar Global Ensemble & Billy Cobham) (2019)
- Resolution (2016)
- Kamran İnce: Passion & Dreams (2016)
- Dreams And Prayers (2014)
- Whatsnext (2014)
- Hatam Ne? (Where Did I Go Wrong?) (2014)
- To Be Or Not To Be (2013)
- For You the World, for Us the Roses (2011)
- A Sacred Music Celebration: Greek Orthodoxy and Turkish Sufism (2011)
- The Language of Birds (2011)
- A Story of the City: Constantinople, Istanbul (2011)
- Kıbrıs'ın Sesi (2007)
- Asitane (2003)
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