Sinem "Hatun" Releaseshow

October 31, 2026 Urban Spree 
(Doors open at 7:00 p.m., show starts at 8:00 p.m.)

SINEMHATUN Album Release Show

A long time ago, Sinem’s grandmother Hatun packed her suitcase and moved to Germany.
Sinem’s second album is named after her grandmother.
Sinem grew up in Upper Bavaria, on the shores of Lake Ammer, and was raised on Western pop music (“Tanz den Mussolini”) and the music from her grandparents’ Turkish homeland.
Classics of Turkish pop culture that are reinterpreted time and again—songs about love: unrequited, impossible, and lost—but also about what happens in the village, in the country, and in the world; about injustice and resistance against it.
On her first album, “Köşk,” Sinem reinterpreted such classics. What they all had in common was that they conveyed a certain attitude. Through her lyrics, her sound, or through elegant moves like this one: singing the song of a macho man who talks about a woman. But the fact that it is now Sinem’s voice singing these words, while she rolls ecstatically around on stage, says more than any feminist seminar. That is Anadolu Punk.

The new album, “Hatun,” begins with “Ötme Bülbül Ötme,” written by Pir Sultan Abdal and performed by Sercan Öztürk and Hüseyin Korkankorkmaz. It’s one of the songs Sinem heard her grandparents sing. Perhaps it told them about life in a foreign land: “Don’t sing, nightingale, my garden is not joyful. I’m wasting away with longing for you.” For “Hatun,” Sinem has once again taken on classics by Sezen Aksu, Erkin Koray, and others that hold special meaning for her and have been with her for a long time.

Sinem, the band in which Tom Wu is responsible for the music and Sinem for the vocals, has now also written its own songs. Because they come from within themselves, they develop a power of their own. The voice of tradition is answered from the present; the past serves as an echo chamber for today’s stories.
The expectations others place on us only make us look back to the past and forward to the future, but never live in the moment and be content with what we do and who we are.
Sinem has a sassy response ready: “Bana ne”—I don’t care! “I did this myself. And I did that myself. What are you going to do about it? What's happening? I don’t care!” On the album’s second track, Sinem raises her voice over a muscular, rocking track that stoically and with a steady stride goes its own way....

[Text (abridged) by Uli Gutmair]

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