Rusan Filiztek is a singer, musicologist and plays the saz, the long-necked lute of Asia Minor. He has traveled extensively through music, from his native Anatolia to the Istanbul of his adolescence, then to Iraq and Syria whose music he explored, before arriving in Europe via Andalusia and taking the road to Paris. For his album Exils, he is joined by flamenco guitarist François Aria, percussionist Juan Manuel Cortes, Celtic flautist Sylvain Barou, Armenian duduk player Artyom Minasyan, violist Marie-Suzanne de Loye, Greek singer Dafné Kritharas, the flamenca singer Cécile Evrot, the jazz bassists Leila Soldevila and Emrah Kaptan.