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B-sides from hard-to-find 45s that never made it onto albums during singer Edip Akbayram's 1970s psychedelic period with the awesome Dostlar as backing band A tiny guy with a great big, easy, open voice, Akbayram glues together disparate arrangements that put ridiculous analog synthesizers up next to centuries-old mystic poetry... -
2021 restock Turkish band Bunalim (Turkish for "Depression") is a true legend: They were the absolute wildest and crudest band from the Anatolian rock scene Under the wing of Cem Karaça, who was their manager and producer, they released a few singles which are all collected here Fierce Turkish folk-flavored psychedelic fuzz-rock... -
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2021 repress LP version Edip Akbayram's a frail guy who spent his childhood unable to walk, but once he grew up he was on Istanbul TV in a whitey-fro and knee-length colored robes Akbayram's voice is big & open, and it took him all across Turkey at the height of Anatolian psychedelia This first album collects precious singles... -
2021 repress LP version Comes with exact reproduction of the original gatefold pop-up sleeve As Turkey's political factions turned more and more violent in the late 1970s, Buscemi-eyed Edip Akbayram was nearly beaten up by rioting audiences for daring to sing about rural points of view that were naturally critical of Istanbul's... -
Legendary Turkish psych innovators Moğollar grace the Artone Studios in Haarlem for a masterclass in the original Anadolu psych roots, cutting a compendium of their rawest hits and most-wanted psychedelic rock classics – including the JDilla-sampled ‘Haliç’te Güneşin Batışı’ – for the latest edition of Night... -
2020 release Stunning career overview session by Turkish psych originators Moğollar, their first new recordings for over a decade Formed at the end of 1967 with five young musicians, Moğollar were the original Anadolu psych originators They were the first Turkish pop band who tried to blend the microtonal folklore and... -
Remastered vinyl reissues of the two essential albums by Turkish folk singer Tülay German, starting with the self-titled release (1980) and followed by "Hommage to Nazım Hikmet" (1982) in early 2022 Referring heavily on turkish poets and the tradition of aşıks (singer-poets and wandering bards) these two albums represent... -
Finally the first ever repress of the legendary Disco Hamam serie is now available! The flagship release of the disco hamam series, including some of the edits that made Baris K’s Eurasia mix trilogy series compulsive listening The EP revives rare and hidden 70s Turkish disco, folk and psych classics, blending the golden era... -
Debut album by dutch act Altin Gün, offering an exciting mix of Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock Altin Gün was founded by Dutch bass player Jasper Verhulst (ao Jacco Gardner's band), who is fascinated by Turkish '70s artists such as Selda, Baris Manço and Erkin Koray Together with Ben Rider (guitar), Nic Mauskovic... -
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Baris K and Jonny Rock don their incognito aliases for the second Disco Hamam release Straight up ottoman disco business strictly from the vaults Limited... -
Turkish Bar or Bengi folk dancing requires approximately 100 people to do it properly, and it helps if a lot of them are eating wedding cake You put your arms around the shoulders of the people on either side of you, and then stomp around in a circle, facing in and kicking the air, until everybody is exhausted and happy Far away... -
Türküola present a reissue of Arif Sağ's Anadolu Döktürmeleri, originally released in 1984 This is a great album that originally recorded and released only in Germany Turkish psych-folk sounds combining with electric-saz, fat bass, synths and... -
Repress!! Early works of the legendary Mogollar, winner of Academie Charles Cross in 1971 These tracks, some in English, show the first experiments of their distinctive style of Anadolu Pop which would later become a local mainstream Incorporating Mogollar's Murat Ses, and Turkey's very early -yet unfortunately late- glam rock... -
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Turkey’s recent musical history is littered with bottled blondes who put on a lot of eyeliner, made a few singles & then disappeared And since the mid-1970s, those twin queens Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu have maintained a semi-rivalry while bulldozing their way over pop charts & sales counters Piles of Turkish psych &... -
In Turkey, psychedelia wasn’t just some fleeting fad Fuzzed-out guitar shredding genuinely intersected with some of the goals of traditional folk & classical music As a result, even former twist singers & folk balladeers explored some fascinating & wild territory Meet Alpay, the soccer player turned lawyer turned... -
Famous for their matching, colorful suits and always-happy smiles, Beyaz Kelebekler ("White Butterflies") were a mixed-gender Turkish band very popular during the '70s They released one album plus numerous 45s in Turkey and other countries like Holland and Italy In 1976 during the last day of their European tour, just after one... -
Pharaway Sounds present a reissue of Erol Büyükburç's Hop Dedik, originally released in 1976 Years before Baris Manco and even before the fame of Erkin Koray, Erol's flamboyant outfits and spontaneous behavior brought a youthful, pop-oriented world to Turkish audiences Hop Dedik is his first proper album While not exactly... -
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There were female Turkish folk singers before Selda Bagkan, but none whose hot-blooded voice carried such righteously angry words and none who also accompanied themselves on guitar Her first (s/t) album had help from the cream of the crazy Istanbul pop scene, and cuts from the same sessions were also released on this second LP... -
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Here's a superb compilation featuring some of the best single sides that Anadolu Pop singer Gülden Karaböcek released during the years 1974-'77 Synthesizers, bubbling bass and wah-wah guitars mix with traditional instruments sa the baglama and zurna Expect catchy folk melodies wrapped in nippy prog/psych-funk arrangements that... -
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Here's a superb compilation featuring some of the best tracks that Anadolu Pop singer Gülden Karaböcek released during the years 1972-'77 Synthesizers, bubbling bass and wah-wah guitars mix with traditional instruments sa the baglama and zurna Expect catchy folk melodies wrapped in nippy prog/psych-funk... -
Pharaway Sounds presents a reissue of Barış Manco's second proper studio album, Nick The Chopper, originally released in 1976 Recorded in Belgium with help from session musicians related to Placebo, Janko Nilovic, and Mad Unity, among others, Nick The Chopper features lyrics in English, huge orchestral sections, and... -
Arguably the most important figure in Turkish rock and psychedelia, Erkin Koray's 4th album 'Tutkusu' was originally released in 1977 on the Kervan Plakçilik record label and has become one of the most sought after pieces of Turkish progressive psych-rock Fetching big sums online the LP has been out of print for years Released... -
Pharaway Sounds present a reissue of the first album by Selda Bagcan, originally released in 1976 A collection of well-known poems and folk-songs, recorded in cooperation with the most progressive Turkish musicians/arrangers of the '70s: Mogollar, Dadaslar, Zafer Dilek, and Arif Sag Combining traditional instrumentation from... -
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Makam madness gives way to instrumental prog on Mogollar's burned-out last album, released in 1976 by Turkey's Anadolu Pop heroes and now reissued Mogollar was the band that never kept a singer for long, and yet even more than Baris or Erkin, the musicians consciously highlighted what was different about the new sounds of the era... -
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Arsivplak present a reissue of Matao with Atilla Engin’s Turkish Delight, originally released in 1979 It’s a Turkish jazz-funk delight! Some hard-hitting rhythm section blending into a prime example of the swingin’ sound of the cool influences of jazz, funk, and folk music, with a Turkish flavor Its fantastic funk jazz...
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