The coziest live performance venue in Istanbul, Salon İKSV has been bringing good music from its home in Beyoğlu to the larger stages of the city for a while as Gezgin Salon (Salon on Wheels), supported by +1. This year, the +1 Presents: Gezgin Salon Festival is back in the greenery of Bonus Parkorman on Saturday, 29 June and Sunday, 30 June.
The festival’s lineup includes Stavroz on its first day; Parcels and La Femme on its second day. Tickets will be available as of Wednesday, 14 February.
More acts will be announced on Salon’s website and through its social media channels.
‘Live’liest form of electronic dance music: Parcels
Parcels have been hailing from Berlin for years now, but actually all five members of the band have their roots in Byron Bay, Australia. Parcels released their titular debut album in 2018, which was praised as ‘cheeky, timeless and devilishly catchy’ by pop music authority NME magazine. Their follow-up, Day/Night, received thunderous acclaim in the UK from Rolling Stone. A live stage favourite, the band performed to sold-out crowds worldwide last year, including at the Hollywood Bowl in LA and SummerStage in Central Park, NYC, marking their most extensive tour to date and drawing comparisons to Daft Punk. Moving away from their funk-leaning period, Parcels continued their live disco recordings with Live Vol. 2 recorded at Le Palace in Paris, with tracks climbing up to 130 BPM. Live Vol. 1 was recorded at Hansa Tonstudio – the landmark studio that shaped David Bowie’s Berlin era. While seeing Daft Punk live may no longer be possible, the opportunity to see Parcels live on stage in full spring is certainly not to be missed.
The concealed ‘fatale’ coming to seduce Parkorman: La Femme
The dizzyingly fresh representative of French psychedelia that waved the baton at Salon last year, will return to Istanbul to seduce a new batch of audiences. Founded by keyboardist Marlon Magnée and guitarist Sacha Got, La Femme has grown to become one of the coolest, most surprising and most ‘rock and roll’ bands in France, boasting five albums released in the last 13 years. with five albums to their credit released in the last 13 years. Their debut album in 2013, Psycho Tropical Berlin, received a golden disc and the Album Revelation of the Year Award at Victoires de la Musique, aka the French equivalent of the Grammy Awards.. Their 2016 follow up, Mystère, topped the
French album charts and carried them to the headline of the 6,300-capacity Zénith venue. Over the past two years, their output has accelerated. Their all-Spanish language album, Teatro Lúcido, conceived as a diary of their travels to Hispanic countries, was followed by another road album, Paris-Hawaï, released last year. According to Michael Hann from The Guardian, La Femme ‘tries on a wardrobe of different clothes – psychedelia, surf rock, electronica, krautrock and more – and ends up looking fantastic in all of them.’
Minimal techno’s gigantic quartet: live set from Stavroz
Stavroz finely tunes into the subtle mood shifts of the audience to deliver unique and exceptionally unrepeatable experiences, tailored to the stage, the venue, and their audience, always with live sets. A quartet that not only transcends electronica forward as an exuberant dance music, but also blends ethnic and acoustic elements with jazz in an unprecedented, organic way. Originating from Ghent, Belgium, IJsbrand De Wilde and Gert Beazar, two DJs and sound engineers, initially formed Stavroz, quickly gaining recognition for their sets and dynamic stage presence. A few years later, Maxim Helincks and Pieter De Meester joined them to evolve into one of the most performance-orientated DJ teams of all time. From their early success with The Ginning, the first evidence of their invincibility in electronic music, to last year’s Kick Up The Dust, they have won numerous awards and recorded many chart-topping tracks for Kindisch, Bedrock and their own Moodfamily label. With over half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and thunderous performances at festivals such as Coachella (USA), Fusion Festival (DE) and Pukkelpop (BE), Stavroz has irrefutably become a timeless act over the years.
Tickets
Tickets will be up for sale on Wednesday, 14 February at 10.30 at İKSV box office, through passo.com.tr, Passo Mobil application and Passo sales points. As part of the Eczacıbaşı Youth Ticket project, student ticket prices will be 20 TL.
Early Bird 1st Phase: 1.500 TL (Combined), 950 TL (Single Day)
Priority ticket sales for Tulip Card members: Tuesday, 13 February
General sale: Wednesday, 14 February at 10.30
With a limited number of +1 Bilet opportunity, it is possible to buy 1 combined ticket and get 1 for free during the Early Bird phase. Not applicable with Tulip Card discounts.
