FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2026 — Aspen, CO — Writer, editor, and cultural critic Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer has released a new longform interview with London-based Turkish musician, vocalist, and producer Djanan Turan, published in The Turnaround Magazine, an independent journal focused on conversations within jazz, improvisation, and experimental music communities.
The feature centers on Turan’s cross-genre artistic practice, which integrates Anatolian musical traditions with electronic production, psychedelic influences, and contemporary experimental approaches. The interview explores her evolving relationship to sound, identity, and place, particularly in relation to migration and life between cultural contexts.
Turan reflects on how her music draws from multiple musical lineages without being confined by them, describing a creative process shaped by voice, rhythm, and texture as tools for emotional and narrative expression. The conversation highlights her position within London’s diverse and globally influenced experimental music scene.
The Turnaround Magazine is an independent publication built around in-depth, conversational interviews between musicians, writers, and interdisciplinary artists. Rather than focusing on traditional review-based criticism, the magazine emphasizes dialogue as a form of documentation, allowing artists to articulate their creative methods and perspectives in their own words.
The interview also exists within a broader cultural network connected to Washington Women in Jazz (WWJF), a Washington, D.C.–based initiative that supports women and gender-expansive artists in jazz through performance, education, and community programming. WWJF fosters spaces for collaboration, mentorship, and live music, while contributing to a wider ecosystem of contemporary jazz practice and discourse.
Within this context, The Turnaround and WWJF share an overlapping commitment to documenting and supporting musicians working across jazz and improvisational traditions, particularly those engaging with experimental and cross-cultural approaches to sound.
Graham-Mayer’s writing aligns with this ecosystem through her focus on artist-led storytelling and culturally grounded music journalism. Her work often emphasizes close listening, creative process, and the social conditions that shape musical production. Across interviews and essays, she explores how musicians construct identity and meaning through sound, particularly within jazz, experimental, and diasporic musical frameworks.
She is the founder of the independent publishing platform Publik / Private, where she develops longform interviews and cultural criticism focused on music and creative practice. Her writing has appeared in outlets including NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, Ms. Magazine, and The Village Voice. She also serves as Editor-at-Large at Repeater Books and is an author published through imprints distributed by Hachette Book Group and Zer0 Books.
This collaboration between Graham-Mayer, Turan, The Turnaround, and WWJF reflects a growing landscape of music writing and documentation in which journalism, oral history, and artistic dialogue operate as interconnected forms of cultural preservation.
About Djanan Turan
Djanan Turan is a London-based Turkish musician, vocalist, and producer whose work blends traditional Anatolian influences with electronic production, psychedelic sound, and experimental music practices.
About The Turnaround
The Turnaround Magazine is an independent magazine featuring longform conversations with artists working across jazz, improvisation, and experimental music, with a focus on creative process and dialogue.
Issue #3 includes: Our third issue! Featuring conversations with Djanan Turan and Jordannah Graham, Jenna Camille and Lyla Jenifer Maisto, and Alison Crockett and Jessica Boykin-Settles; original writing by Taisha Estrada, Athena Zapantis, and Amy K Bormet; original photographs by Rachel Cara, Jamie Sandel, and Lyla Jenifer Maisto; artwork by Joana Tomé and Lyla Jenifer Maisto.
About Washington Women in Jazz (WWJF)
Washington Women in Jazz is a Washington, D.C.–based arts initiative supporting women and gender-expansive jazz musicians through performance, education, and community-based programming.
About Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer
Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer is a writer, editor, and publisher working across music journalism, cultural criticism, and independent publishing. She is the founder of Publik / Private and contributes to both independent and mainstream media outlets.
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