HOSHNEVA: Turkish Makam Music
Tuesday September 23rd, 2025
8pm (7:30 Doors)
SISTERS - 900 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238
$20 Admission
Stick around for the jam after the set!
Hoshneva, meaning "pleasant melodies" in Turkish, is the name of an ongoing ensemble featuring a rotating cast of musicians steeped in the Turkish Makam music tradition. This iteration features Turkish-born violinist Eylem Başaldı, and Adam Good on ud, performing original compositions heavily influenced by the styles of Ottoman Turkish makam composers. Their repertoire ranges from short dance rhythm pieces to the longer usuls of Saz Semai and Peşrev forms. Melodic lines are mirrored on violin and ud as the group explores these makams through improvised taksims.
Featuring:
Eylem Başaldı - violin
Adam Good - ud
Paul Brown - upright bass
Nezih Antakli - percussion
Eylem Basaldi is a Turkish-born violinist, composer, and educator whose work bridges classical training (New England Conservatory) with the rich folk traditions of the Middle East, Balkans, and beyond. A sought-after improviser and music director, Basaldi collaborated on projects such as Dolunay (music of Rumeli), Sandaraa (balochi music from Pakistan), Laura Elkeslassy’s “Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile” (North African repertoire from the last century), Hamed Sinno’s (Mashrou Leila) “Poems of Consumption,” Gordon Grdina’s “Ru’Ya,” the Turkish American Orchestra, and productions with theatre director Andrea Assaf (Art2Action). Basaldi has shared the stage with a diverse range of artists and ensembles across world, jazz, rock, and contemporary music, including Snarky Puppy, Dave Brubeck, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Arab Orchestra. Her performances have taken her to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Symphony Hall, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as theatrical productions on and off Broadway. She has also led workshops and masterclasses at UCLA, Bard College, Middlebury College, and beyond.
Adam Good is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer working with contemporary modal music in the traditional styles of Turkey, Greece and Eastern Europe. His musicianship on guitar, Turkish ud, tanbur, and knowledge of Turkish makam has made Adam a fixture of the Balkan and Middle Eastern music scenes in the US and abroad. Adam’s studies of the ud, beginning in 2005 with Turkish ud master Necati Çelik and makam based composition with Ross Daly have had a profound impact on his musical journey. Adam plays with the ensembles Dolunay (Turkish music), Brenna MacCrimmon, Greek Judas (heavy metal Greek rebetika), Pontic Firebird (Greek Pontic), and with clarinet master Souren Baronian's ensemble Taksim.