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Through Turns Projects we independently commission new works and provide music direction and production services to festivals, music venues, and other related music sectors.

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Space289
Music Direction & Production
Marikiscrycrycry x AirCode x Kelman Duran
Commision
Manana//Cuba x Jazz re: freshed
Commision
Pouya Ehsaei, Binker Golding & Dafni Krazoudi
Commision
Parasang
Music Direction & Production
Manana // Cuba
Music Direction & Production
Ariwo
Music Direction & Production
Saaken
Music Direction & Production

Space289

 

Space 289 was a live music, club venue & community hub in East London that closed in 2023 due to developers.

The venue hosted act such as Shy Girl, Aya, Facta, Lorraine James, Maxwell Sterling, Quendresa, Jess Lanza, Ok Williams, Aba Shanti, John T Gast, Kelman Duran, Balming Tiger, Al Wootton, Flora Yin Wong, Hiro Kone, Acre, Jana Rush, Silvia Kastel, Lauren Duffus, Giant Swan, Ehua, Aircode, Nexcyia, Aya, K means, Perc, Manni Dee and Overlook.

Working with promoters like; Planet Mu, Youth, ChinaBot, Parallel Lines, Circadian Rhtyhms, Pitchfork Music Festival and Accidental Meetings. The venue was founded and run by HF - Turns.

      Marikiscrycrycry x AirCode
      x Kelman Duran:

       A collaborative audio-choreography performance

      Produced in partnership with Jazz re;freshed this project was developed during an intensive 7 day period in Havana. The performance featuring prominent UK jazz and electronica artists Yussef Dayes, Kevin Haynes, Sarah Tandy, Paul Dolby aka Seiji and Space Afrika with Cuban musicians Adel Gomez, Feliciano Arango and Hammadi Valdes.  


        Manana//Cuba Jazz

        re:freshed,Barbican


      Produced in partnership with Jazz re;freshed this project was developed during an intensive 7 day period in Havana. The performance featuring prominent UK jazz and electronica artists Yussef Dayes, Kevin Haynes, Sarah Tandy, Paul Dolby aka Seiji and Space Afrika with Cuban musicians Adel Gomez, Feliciano Arango and Hammadi Valdes.

       

        & Dafni Krazoudi

        Fact Mag

      An improv performance featuring modular synth, saxophone and dance commissioned as part of Patchnotes Fact Mag series

        Music Direction & Production

      Led by electronic composer Pouya Ehsaei and curated by HF - Turns. Parasang is a series of live improvisations, with each show a one-off collaboration that explores folk music from across London’s diaspora communities within a experimental club setting.
       

      There were over 20 curated events in total, which included a residency at Kings Place, performance for Fact Magazine and stage takeovers at Brainchild festival. 

      Musicians involved included:
      Cuban sax player Regis Molina, Ethiopian krar player Temesgen Zeleke, Iranian Guitarist Mahan Mirarab, saxophonists Camilla George & Binker Golding, Afro-Cuban percussionists Randy Lester, Moroccan lute player Boujemaa Bouboul, Pianist and keyboardists Sarah Tandy & Elliot Galvin,  Sax Player James Mollison from Ezra Collective,  dancehall/reggae drummer Marley Drummond, Wonky Logic, Brazilian singer and guitarist Aleh Ferreira (Banda Black Rio), Brazilian percussionist Marcos Santana (Timbalada), UK Italian percussionist Maurizio Ravalico, Bulgarian Guitarist and singer Morski and Senegalese musicians Kadialy Kouyate & Ndene Ndialy, Korean percussionist Jihye, violinist and vocalist Johanna Burnheart, trumpeters Byron Wallen, Laura Jurd, Sam Warner, Kevin Davy, Axel Kaner-Listrom and Yelfris Valdes, dancers Yolanda Perez, Dafni Krazoudi, Chantel Foo & Marikiscrycrycry, visual artists Tormoz a.k.a Morteza Ghahremanian, Amir B. Ash, Razieh Kooshki, 2 Digit Visuals.
       


      Manana//Cuba was a festival and residency programme in Santiago De Cuba - 2016, that connected the international electronic music community to masters of Afro-Cuban folkloric tradition. The project was built around the belief that Cuba’s powerful blend of rhythm and culture would enrich the electronic music community, while giving local musicians a platform to connect with international audiences, incorporate technology and take their musical development in new directions. Turns curated and produced the collaborations and built a team within Cuba that worked alongside the Ministry of Culture in Santiago de Cuba to deliver this one off festival. Funding was secured via a crowdfunding campaigning and via sponsors like Havana Club. Follow up cultural exchange programmes saw events at Barbican and Oval Space.

      Musicians included:
      Nicolas Jaar, Plaid, Adrian Sherwood & Skip McDonald, Sofrito, Gifted & Blessed, Compañía Ballet Folklórico de Oriente, Obbatuke, Son de Batey  

      Ariwo

       


      Founded and produced by HF - Turns. Ariwo are a Cuban/Iranian four-piece focused on the intersection between electronic and ancestral music. The band have played shows at Dimensions, Royal Festival Hall, Giant Steps, Village Underground, Shambala, YAAM, Oval Space, Gottwood, Total Refreshment Centre & Barbican etc. 

      Saaken


      Saaken is a new day festival in development, focused on electronic scenes cities across the SWANA region.