Wed 15 Apr
|The Golden Lion
People Like Us presents: Umut Adan & Zebânis (Turkish Psych)
Time & Location
15 Apr 2026, 19:30 – 22:30
The Golden Lion, Fielden Square, Todmorden OL14 6LZ, UK
About the Event
Umut Adan & Zebânis is a musical project born from the encounter between Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and three Italian musicians – Andrea Marazzi, Michele Bussone, and Filippo Gillono – active members of the Turin-based collective Pietra Tonale as well as various experimental, rock, and pop outfits. They are based between Turin and Brussels.
The collaboration began in 2018 with the goal of bringing Bahar – an album already acclaimed for its philological approach to 1970s Anatolian psychedelia – on tour.
But it is with their new work, Başka Bahar, that the relationship evolved into a fully collective, creative, compositional, and political form.
Zebânis – a nickname given to them in Turkey, evoking the guardian demons of hell in Islamic mythology – do not merely accompany: they challenge, amplify, distort. The band functions as a hybrid and unruly ensemble, capable of moving from the tenderness of narrative folk to…