about

Sinemis is the new solo project of Circassian-Turkish producer Sine Buyuka, who gently combines the ancestral Sufi music of her homeland with sophisticated techno-inflected ambient to create a genre self-described as sufi-electronica. Her first release was the single Medi in the Wind Layers compilation on 7K! in 2021.

Her first mini-album Dua is released on Injazero Records in November 2022, and she’ll have upcoming singles in compilations on labels like Sub Rosa and Nils Frahm’s Leiter in 2023.Sine Buyuka worked as a culture and arts journalist and hosted a radio show in her hometown Istanbul before moving to London in 2012. She runs the experimental/electronic label Injazero Records, is a graduate student in electronic music at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and hosts a monthly radio show on London-based sound art station Resonance Extra.

Her mixes have been featured on Worldwide FM, Resonance FM, Open Lab, Subtempo, Soho Radio and NTS…She has performed at venues like Somerset House, Iklectik Art Lab and St Matthias Church and onstage with musicians such as James Heather, Specimens, Midori Hirano, Laila Sakini and Chantal Michelle…