In his solo concert, HEPYEK, Volkan İncüvez performs a one-man live loop performance that combines maqamal music, modern music elements, and improvisations, utilizing ney, vocals, fretless guitar, electric guitar, and caglama (a string instrument).
In his repertoire, Volkan İncüvez interprets folk music and traditional Turkish music pieces cyclically, offering his interpretations based on a sound and arrangement approach that aligns with contemporary World music criteria. While these cycles represent the element of ‘keeping the mood’ that exists in traditional music, the concert offers us endless possibilities for rhythm and harmony, in addition to maintaining the mood. In a sense, the flow of this concert can be likened to the ‘tension-resolution’ relationship between traditional and pastoral music and the industrial and modern perception of life. All these phenomena, senses, and emotions are purified from their identities, sometimes by shrinking to the essence and sometimes by alienation, and come to silence. In technical terms, this performance is woven with afro rhythms and grooves, improvised fusion solos, modal improvisations, maqam melodies and harmonies, as well as rhythmic and melodic structures that have become a part of Anatolia. The ultimate goal is to achieve well-being in a state of trance.
In other words, Hepyek grows his melodies and harmonies on the land, wanders in the sky without a route, and leaves his feelings at the bottom of the sea.