Music Appreciation Under The Tree Vol.17

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Music Appreciation Under The Tree Vol.17

Featuring Elif [ Anjunadeep / Stil Vor Talent ]

Molo Fam! Welcome to our Music Appreciation sessions Under the Tree here at Growing OGs HQ. 

Growing OGs is here to help facilitate the growth of all things music. We strive to keep arts alive even when the resistance is strong. Our love for unity and connection through music brings us together every week to share in a music experience that holds its own. 

We are very excited to be hosting our first international artist, Elif (Anjunadeep, Stil vor talent) from Turkey along side our local heros Daru and Pariah from the OG collective.

Elif

With early success as an international music blogger, fresh talent Istanbul-born Elif covered all the main festivals as a writer until, after teaching herself music production and mixing, she swapped ligging for gigging four years ago as a DJ. As a producer, her first release on Anjunadeep (2019) made her an instant favourite, and her Anjunadeep ‘Edition’ mixes are always a huge success. Her #Anjunaunlocked stream has already amassed over 96K views, and she’s crafted epic lockdown set for Desert Hearts’ City Hearts virtual festival and ABRACADABRA’s virtual fundraiser fest, both of which made the Twitch main page and became the talk of towns everywhere. She’s also used lockdown to get creative – she’s dropped the stunning ‘Entanglement’ on Stil Vor Talent and ‘Moonspell’, her label debut on A Tribe Called Kotori – and reached her listeners’ hearts with livestreams both melodic and profound.

Before lockdown, already a familiar figure at festivals worldwide with an incredible resume of experience and expertise (of which more below), Elif had become a non-stop nomadic performer at the likes of Burning Man, The Monastery Festival, Anjunadeep Explorations, ADE, Kater Blau, The Gardens of Babylon and Flying Circus parties, Tulum, Montreal, Ukraine, Amsterdam… be it a dark club or a sunny beach, she brings heart, variety, passion and life-enhancing vibes to her listeners. 

‘Music is my home. Music is my language. Music is my medicine.’ 

All this, after a degree in Architecture, a spell working as an architect in Santiago de Chile, and a gap year which saw her already buzzing Twitter and Insta social media life blossom into full blogger ‘influencer’ status before the term was even invented. Elif wrote about her passions, music and travel, hitting up global events like Glastonbury (‘my yearly pilgrimage 3 years in a row’), Fusion, Reading, and becoming an oft-invited guest at Coachella, SXM, Sziget, writing up her experiences for landlocked music fans back home and even launching and managing a new Turkish indie band. Clearly her social media chops remained sharp, as in 2018 she delivered a TEDX talk on being a female role model in Turkey, obtaining 39k views on YouTube.

‘I am a music storyteller. My nerd brain learns about music theory and production, when I can go days and nights without sleep and just work, because I can only enjoy success If I really earned it. This way I have a real and inspiring story to tell. I know from a very young age what it means to be followed and loved by many people. It’s very powerful and I want to use this power for our planet, for a better society, for freedom, for equality. I love our planet, the nature and I am super curious about our universe’ 

Line Up Times:

19:00 Pariah [ Kalushi Recordings ]

20:30 Elif [ Anjunadeep / Stil Vor Talent ]

22:00 Daru [ Ambious Records / Katz & Kauz ]

DIRECTIONS