Onur Aymergen

Onur Aymergen started playing classical guitar with Özhan Gölebatmaz and studied classical flamenco with Suat Demirkıran, then interested in rock, funk and jazz music. He played his own compositions in many festivals and music clubs with his quartet and took part in projects with European musicians. In his jazz projects, he reflected the sounds of European jazz, modern jazz and world music. Afterwards, Aymergen worked with Mısırlı Ahmet for several years and tried to develop his rhythmic ideas. He worked a variety of styles including Turkish, Indian and jazz music. He recently wrote his thesis on Turkish Maqam Harmonisation with Prof. Ertuğrul Bayraktarkatal and applications on guitar in order to createa unque sound which arise from Turkish Maqam Music. Indeed, he is still performing with the Russian-Turkish band "NEVI" (Andrei Kondakov p, Tolga Bilgin tr, Ozan Musluoğlu db, Aleksadr Bozhenko dr, Onur Aymergen g). They recorded their first album "NEVI-Istanbul Edition" in Istanbul (2019). Aymergen's debut album "LUNAR" with his quintet (Can Çankaya p, Tolga Bilgin tr, Apostolos Sideris db, Turgut Alp Bekoğlu dr, Onur Aymergen g). All the songs in this album are the guitarist's original compositions and the album will be released on October 2022 from Norvegian jazz label Losen Records. 

Gear

Ibanez George Benson Guitar
Roland Cube Amp

Freeze - TC Electronics

Ibanez NuTube Overdrive

POG2 Octave 

TC Flashback Delay

Boss OC-3

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