Taner Öngür

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Taner Öngür

Taner Öngür is a well-known veteran musician who took and still takes part in Turkey’s most outstanding rock bands. Born in 1949 he started his career in 1963 by playing double bass during the shows at the movie theatres before movies. Öngür played bass in Volkanlar, Okan Dinçer Kontrastlar (also accompanying Turkish Rockn’roll King Erkut Taçkın), 5 Yabancı, Erkin Koray 4 and the fabulous Moğollar. He played bass and some Turkish instruments, made vocals and composed for Moğollar between years 1969-73. Appeared in Charles Cross award winning LP (Danses Et Rythmes De La Turquie D’Hier À Aujourd’hui) from Concert Hall Records, played with singers such as Barış Manço, Selda and Cem Karaca in context of Moğollar. After Moğollar, he founded TANK with ex Bunalım Aydın Çakus and formed Dadaşlar with Fehiman Uğurdemir in 1974. In 1975 he had a brief joining to Edip Akbayram & Dostlar as a guitarist. Between 1975-77 he contributed Cem Karaca & Dervişan both as guitarist and composer.
In 1980 he made Turkey’s first ska punk album “Hatamızı Bilmeden Çekiyoruz” under the name of Dadaşlar. Following that album he migrated to Germany and involved in new wave and punk stuff under the name of Baba with Fikri Andaç. Returning Turkey with rumors that he was dead, he began to work as a studio engineer in Studio FT. During his spare time in studio he produced his self-made album “Alarm” combining rock, electronica and punk elements with the lyrics on environment, space, existentialism etc. in 1992.
In 1993 he was present at the reunion of Moğollar and still plays with his old band. In addition to Moğollar which brings a certain financial sustainability, Öngür took part in different aspects of music varying from music festival organizations to musical groups and projects to express his creativity as a whole.

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