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// We are releasing our new duo album, Wildflowers Off the Freeway, on September 25th on @searchingrecords and hosting a release show on Sunday September 27th at @reveriebookstand in Echo Park to celebrate with the Disco Coup (@barbqpope + @_illuminatiofficial2023 ) and @entwined____ // 8pm // hope to see you there // by @z.bach

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a month ago

// Announcing the Wildflowers Off the Freeway Tour //

@elifdincerr and I are putting out our new tape this Friday 9/25 and heading up the West Coast the first couple weeks of October // We are extremely excited to go on the road, thank you to everyone who helped // Release show this Sunday 9/27 @reveriebookstand in Echo Park to kick things off // by @z.bach

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21 days ago

Elif Dinçer + Zac Burgenbauch - Wildflowers Off the Freeway [SEA-049]

Wildflowers Off the Freeway, the debut record from innovative harp + lap steel duo Elif Dinçer + Zac Burgenbauch, releases 9/25 on digital and cassette💫

@elifdincerr and @z.bach are a duo from Los Angeles who make Creative Music exploring the outer reaches of the harp and lap steel guitar. Drawing upon the traditions of free jazz, contemporary classical composition, free improvisation, and American folk music, Elif and Zac utilize a shared language and repertoire they have developed over years involving graphic scores, preparations, alternative tunings, open compositional structures, and reinterpreted original melodies.

Recorded during a live performance at the Lou Harrison House in Joshua Tree, Wildflowers Off the Freeway progresses through an unfamiliar world of raw sounds emerging from the natural tendencies of harp and lap steel guitar and evolves into a wide spectrum of colors, noise, abstract shapes, and broken lines. Wielding techniques like extreme de-tuned strings, language music, and phasing and various objects and preparations including bows, corks, and paintbrushes, they conjure bright illumination on high strings and low, primal murmurations within the unique acoustic environment of Harrison House.

📼Cassette pre-orders (limited to 50 copies) + preview track “Curtains of Sun-lit Rain” up now on @bandcamp

Slides 2-4: Behind-the-scenes from the soundcheck a few hours before the recorded performance

#improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #harp #lapsteel #cassetteculture taken in Harrison House by @z.bach

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24 days ago

Just have to make sure you all know about this Friday coming up at @decay_olympia !!!
We have some special guests from Los Angeles coming through, an improvising harp/lap steel duo of @elifdincerr and @z.bach - followed by the new Gnawa meets free jazz duo BARAKA BLUES @ba_beehe & @arringtondedionyso . FOOD MYTH ( @mnordile ) opens right around 8pm. taken in DECAY by @z.bach

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5 days ago

Tonight in Portland! At Turn! Turn! Turn!

Zac Burgenbauch + Elif Dinçer - harp and lap steel duo visiting from LA

w/ field recordist + experimental composer @maddi__baird and sound artist + synthesist @mattheuuv

7:30 Doors
8pm Performance
$10

Clip from our show at @adobebookshop in San Francisco. Big love to everyone who has been a part of the tour so far! by @z.bach

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6 days ago

Friday October 9 at DECAY
BARAKA BLUES (Arrington & Brahim’s new thing)
Elif Dinçer & Zac Burgenbach (Harp & lap steel guitar from LA!)
FOOD MYTH (Max Nordile)

7pm doors by @z.bach

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12 days ago

Elif Dinçer + Zac Burgenbauch - Wildflowers Off the Freeway [SEA-049]

// Elif and I recorded this album in May of 2025 as a live performance at the @lou_harrison_house in Joshua Tree, California - a truly cosmic room w/ unique acoustics //

// This recording captures our duo at a really interesting crossroads when we had been improvising together for the past couple of years and had just started to introduce a couple of compositions to the fold // Elif had been experimenting with tuning several strings waaay down to Ethiopian harp levels, and I was generally keeping the steel in C-F-G-Bb-C-D for sussed out, open manipulation. Both of us used a fair amount of bows, objects, and preparations //

// It features every note we played in the order it was performed that day, captured by @_ash.ing and mastered by @recitalprogram // Album art by Elif and Zac //

// The title comes from one of our first performances when we were driving back and forth to CalArts //

// Performed on harp and lap steel //

// Digital and tapes up on the Searching Bandcamp // Release show this Sunday at @reveriebooks // 🌻🌙 // by @z.bach

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17 days ago

// Friday, October 9th // @decay_olympia // Olympia, Washington // 7pm Doors // 8pm Music //

Baraka Blues ( @arringtondedionyso + @ba_beehe )

@elifdincerr + @z.bach

Food Myth ( @mnordile )

// An evening of improvised and exploratory music with Baraka Blues (Arrington + Brahim), Los Angeles harp and lap steel duo Elif Dinçer + Zac Burgenbauch, and Food Myth (M. Nordile) // Baraka Blues brings bass clarinet and guimbri together in the liminal space between Gnawa music, Free Jazz, and Blues, while Dinçer and Burgenbauch explore free improvisation, open forms, preparations, and altered tunings for harp and lap steel guitar // by @z.bach

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19 days ago

// Tuesday, October 6th // 8pm // @turnturnturnpdx // Portland //

@maddi__baird

@elifdincerr + @z.bach (LA)

@mattheuuv by @z.bach

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19 days ago

// Saturday, October 3rd // 7pm // @adobebookshop // San Francisco //

@eleanora__harp

@elifdincerr + @z.bach (LA)

@jm.888_ + @seanquinoa

@penny___anne + @isabelle.w.k by @z.bach

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19 days ago

OCTOBER 10TH by @z.bach

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