{"id":2044,"date":"2021-12-02T18:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:30:30","slug":"mubert-artist-8ulentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/mubert-artist-8ulentina","title":{"rendered":"Mubert Artist: 8ULENTINA","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"380\" class=\"mubert-iframe mubert-widget\" src=\"https:\/\/play.mubert.com\/19df17e78b16047a959c272b0?embed=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">For a better listening experience, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mubert.com\/products\/play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mubert app<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/8ulentina.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">8ULENTINA<\/a> (pronounced B00-LENT-EENA) is named after transgender singer B\u00fclent Ersoy, a Turkish diva banned in the 80s by the military government, highlighting the fact that their creative process is an exploration of their family\u2019s Turkish, Arab and Jewish roots. Inspired by their background 8ULENTINA is interested in creating diasporic spaces through sound, sculpture, garments and video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mubert Artist 8ULENTINA\" class=\"wp-image-2046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/8ULENTINA_1080x1080-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Lara Sarkissian, aka FOOZOOL, 8ULENTINA co-founded Oakland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/clubchai.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Club Chai<\/a>, a collective, event series, record label and curatorial project that highlights diasporic narratives and queer and trans people of color. 8ULENTINA music combines non-Western sounds with <a href=\"https:\/\/mubert.com\/render\/themes\/nightlife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">club music<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mubert.com\/render\/genres\/pop-music\/r-b\" title=\"\">r&amp;b<\/a>, and has been released through Tobago Tracks, Allergy Season, Night Slugs, Club Chai and via their Bandcamp page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one and only 8ULENTINA creates a mysterious landscape of tribal percussion, dystopian riffs and off-kilter textures in their stream for Mubert.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":7,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-artists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mubert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}