The Disorientalists: »Who Was Essad Bey?«

By and with Marina Frenk (singer, piano, guitar), Yuriy Gurzhy (singer, guitar, bass), Daniel Kahn (accordion, singer, baglama, piano, ukulele), Special Guests: Hampus Melin (drums), Mehmet Yilmaz (texts)

An Azerbaijani patriot who fled the Bolsheviks and the Nazis; a Russian Jew, a Muslim convert, a Mussolini fan and a German bestselling author: Who Was Essad Bey? – is the name of the Disorientalists’ album, released by Berlin-based label Oriente. Come and celebrate the record release with us!


The production and recording were powered by the support of the Freundeskreis des Maxim Gorki Theaters.