Labirent
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Labirent is a progressive rock
/metal
band formed in Ankara
, Turkey
, in 1987. In the early times of rock music in Turkey, when the style was considered very strange and was treated by many as a piece of rubbish, two brave musicians, Serhat Koçak and Yavuz Selim Sarıcı founded this band and introduced the concept of “Progressive Rock Music” to the Turkish music market. In 1992, guitarist Volkan Unluer http://www.myspace.com/walkieslab joined the band, and the core line-up took its present shape. They tried very hard and finally achieved to extend their musical perspective, powerful music and sounds on many national TV and radio stations countrywide and in 1997 their first album Çağın Harikası ("Miracle of the Century") was released. They made a symphonic rock
performance “which was a first in Turkey” as a rock band performing with a Gazi University Symphony
Orchestra on the Turkish National TV Channel TRT
. Nowadays the band members are continuing their musical careers with their solo projects mostly but as a band they still keep their position in Turkish rock music history and hold a great place in the memories of the generation of the 1980s in Turkey, especially in Ankara.
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Former Members
Themes that mostly took place in Labirent’s songs are freedom, liberty
, life and human rights
. Labirent is the only Turkish band that has principles and works to meet the needs of more sensitive, productive, dynamic and functional culture, art and music for the country. Furthermore Labirent is the only band in Turkey that has song subjecting the greatest Turkish revolutionist “Atatürk”. The band’s aim is to carry out the responsibilities of being intellectual artists to point out the artistic perspective of modern age for the improvement of community that they live in and for the next generations.
Following that aims it is declared that Labirent are working on joining their members’ individual musical and artistic projects as a “Triple Project of Labirent” concept and make another first in Turkish Rock Music History.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
/metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
band formed in Ankara
Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, in 1987. In the early times of rock music in Turkey, when the style was considered very strange and was treated by many as a piece of rubbish, two brave musicians, Serhat Koçak and Yavuz Selim Sarıcı founded this band and introduced the concept of “Progressive Rock Music” to the Turkish music market. In 1992, guitarist Volkan Unluer http://www.myspace.com/walkieslab joined the band, and the core line-up took its present shape. They tried very hard and finally achieved to extend their musical perspective, powerful music and sounds on many national TV and radio stations countrywide and in 1997 their first album Çağın Harikası ("Miracle of the Century") was released. They made a symphonic rock
Symphonic rock
Symphonic rock is a sub-genre of progressive rock. Since early in progressive rock's history, the term has been used sometimes to distinguish more classically influenced progressive rock from the more psychedelic and experimental forms of progressive rock....
performance “which was a first in Turkey” as a rock band performing with a Gazi University Symphony
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
Orchestra on the Turkish National TV Channel TRT
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT , is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964. Around 70% of TRT's funding comes from a tax levied on electricity bills and a sales tax on television and radio receivers...
. Nowadays the band members are continuing their musical careers with their solo projects mostly but as a band they still keep their position in Turkish rock music history and hold a great place in the memories of the generation of the 1980s in Turkey, especially in Ankara.
Band members
- Vocals: Serhat Koçak
- Keyboards: Yavuz Selim http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Labirent+oburadamx+rock+turk&search=
- Guitars: Volkan Ünlüer
- Bass: Tolga Tecer
- Drums: Levent Ünal
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Former Members
- Levent Atici
- Gurcan Konanc
- Emin Guven
- Koray Ozturk
- Fethi Okutan
Themes that mostly took place in Labirent’s songs are freedom, liberty
Liberty
Liberty is a moral and political principle, or Right, that identifies the condition in which human beings are able to govern themselves, to behave according to their own free will, and take responsibility for their actions...
, life and human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
. Labirent is the only Turkish band that has principles and works to meet the needs of more sensitive, productive, dynamic and functional culture, art and music for the country. Furthermore Labirent is the only band in Turkey that has song subjecting the greatest Turkish revolutionist “Atatürk”. The band’s aim is to carry out the responsibilities of being intellectual artists to point out the artistic perspective of modern age for the improvement of community that they live in and for the next generations.
Following that aims it is declared that Labirent are working on joining their members’ individual musical and artistic projects as a “Triple Project of Labirent” concept and make another first in Turkish Rock Music History.