{"id":6550,"date":"2025-12-01T23:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ment.si\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=6550"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:19:42","slug":"meral-polat","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/artist\/meral-polat\/","title":{"rendered":"Meral Polat"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<div id=\"content-text-block-block_dd8c81db7ee3736bae3d014b55b7cefa\" class=\"content-text-block\">\r\n    <p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;When looking at the world of Anatolian psych-rock, it is easy to focus on the retro sounds of artists like Bar\u0131\u015f Man\u00e7o, but Polat runs with the sound firmly into the 21st century.&#8221; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/meral-polat-meydan-album-review\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ben Forrest, Far Out Magazine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\r\n\r\n<div id=\"content-text-block-block_6f437ededb8197e31d07c6c386386ec0\" class=\"content-text-block\">\r\n    <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meral Polat summons the soulful inheritance of her Turkish-Kurdish-Alevite roots and attunes it to the multi-layered cultural discourse of the urban diaspora. Already known in the Netherlands as a film, theatre, and television actress, her musical passions came to the fore after discovering a trove of her late father\u2019s poems, which inspired the songs on her 2022 debut album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ez K\u00ee Me<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Echoes of Anatolian mountain songs reverberate through atmospheric grooves that channel desert blues, Afrobeat, and Turkish rock. Her sophomore album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meydan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, released in September, gives musical form to the &#8220;Women, Life, Freedom&#8221; philosophy of the Kurdish women\u2019s movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This performance is supported by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upbeat-platform.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UPBEAT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9283 \" src=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/upbeat_logo_A_RGB_black-e1768469742176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/upbeat_logo_A_RGB_black-e1768469742176.png 1182w, https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/upbeat_logo_A_RGB_black-e1768469742176-872x294.png 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9290\" src=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1.png 1023w, https:\/\/ment.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/EN-Co-funded-by-the-EU_BLACK-1-872x182.png 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6808,"parent":0,"template":"","country":[98],"genre":[790,792,39],"location":[23],"class_list":["post-6550","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","genre-anatolian-rock","genre-blues","genre-jazz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ment.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}