Island5 by islandman
Islandman reimagines the deep-rooted sounds of Anatolia through a modern lens. To them, this music isn’t frozen in time — it’s alive, shifting, and always becoming. Tradition, in their hands, isn’t something to preserve in glass, but something to carry, stretch, and let grow.
To be released in the autumn of 2025, their fifth studio album Island5 marks Islandman’s most detailed and cohesive narrative to date, reflecting the group’s evolving sensibility in both sound and process. Their sonic language has deepened, staying rooted in familiar elements while evolving through richer analog tones and a more refined production.
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Music by Islandman
Bass guitar & synth: Tolga Böyük
Guitars: Erdem Başer
Drums: Eralp Güven
Engineered by Cansın Dugan
Mixed by Cansın Dugan & Tolga Böyük
Vinyl mastering and cut by Martijn Schouten at Artone Studio
Digital mastering by Darren Ziesing at Millennium Mastering
Recorded in Rest In Space Studios / Berlin
Artwork and design by Bráulio Amado
Creative direction: Yeşim Koçal Böyük
℗ & © 2025 Rest in Space Records. All rights reserved.
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Islandman are a live electro-acoustic trio from Turkey, comprised of Tolga Böyük, Eralp Güven and Erdem Başer.
Their performances are a cross-cultural collection of shamanic rhythms, mellow electronic structures, dance beats and psychedelic guitar riffs, combining Turkish psychedelia and African roots music with the electric universe.