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Kamil Erdem was born in Ankara in 1959. He finished at TED Ankara College in 1997, and graduated from the Department of Electric Engineering at Middle East Technical University in 1983. He participated in Oktay Temiz’s Oriental Wind Group in 1981. Between 1981 and 1986, he had given many concerts with the group in Turkey and Europe. In 1990, Erdem founded the group Asiaminor, which has given him access to the international music scene for more than 10 years. Asiaminor toured several times in Europe (1990-2002) and the USA (1996, 1998, 2003), and released three albums, “Along the Street” (1991), “Longa Nova” (1996), and “Cat′s Dream” (1997). With the Asiaminor group, Erdem has participated in numerous music festivals including Ankara International Music Festival (1995), Izmir Europe Jazz Days (1995), Akbank International Jazz Festival (1995), Istanbul Jazz Festival (1996), Bursa International Music Festival (1998), Bodrum Musicrama (1998), Jazz Fest Wiesen (Vienna, 1991), World Music Festival (Budapest, 1991), Festa dell’ Unita (Napoli, 1997), Thessaloniki Europe Culture Capital (1997).
Besides Asiaminar, he has given many concerts with the Kamil Erdem Quartet and other Jazz groups in Turkey and abroad. In 1996, he joined the International Ankara Music Festival with the Kamil Erdem Quartet. The Kamil Erdem Quartet toured Holland in 2008 after which the album "Odd Tango" was released. He also participated in the Middle East Technical University Jazz Days (1996) and the Antalya Jazz Festival (1998) and with Kamil Erdem Ethno-Jazz Trio.
In 1995, Erdem performed as a guest artist for the album of Egyptian group Sharkiat and gave a concert together. In 1998, he played as a member of Anatolia Vapirov Balkan Project in Varna Summer Jazz Festival. Between 1996 and 1997, he founded the Basic Connection with German Bassist Lillich and gave a concert in Ankara and Berlin. Erdem taught bass guitar in the Poland Pulawey International Jazz Workshop in 1998 and 1999.
In 2001, Erdem released his solo bass album, “A Tale of Bass”, where his own impressions of different traditional music have been transformed into virtuosic techniques and compositions for solo bass guitar. Since 2002, he has been conducting workshops and master-classes on solo bass guitar performance techniques and playing solo bass recitals in Turkey and abroad. Currently, Erdem continues performing bass guitar and teaches at the Rhythm Music Department in the Faculty of Music and State Arts at Bilkent University.
Discography:
Along the Street, 1991
Longa Nova, 1996
Cat′s Dream, 1997
A Tale of Bass, 2001
Odd Tango, 2008
Kâmil Erdem-René Sopa Quartet, 2010
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