Blue Flamingo

Blue Flamingo is Ziya Ertekin from Rotterdam, DJ and collector of 78 rpm records. He named himself after a passing Rhine barge. His collection contains old jazz, gospel, tango, soca, calypso, soukous, rumba and ndombolo. He makes several musical journeys to gain inspiration and meet musicians in Cuba (2005), Trinidad (2007), New Orleans (Mardi Gras in 2010) and Africa (Zanzibar, Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and Gambia in 2011).

The Alan Lomax of a new era has increasingly devoted himself to his own music. In the spirit of the artists he compiles and plays on his Garrard RC-88 from 1957 with built-in speaker, Blue Flamingo makes music with a healthy disdain for genres, times or monoculture. Dancing across the border. With as a provisional highlight the born festival hit Boom Nama Gan Gan .