Neşe karaböcek - Yali yali

Left Turn At Dreamland

Taken from the album 'XX'
Available on: 2xCD / 2xLP+CD+DL
Release Date: January 27th, 2017
www.glitterbeat.com

A kaleidoscopic, two-disc, career-spanning compilation from Istanbul’s revered psychedelic explorers. Esteemed collaborators include Sly & Robbie, Mad Professor, Dr. Das of Asian Dub Foundation, Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and more. Without a doubt one of the planet’s great musical adventures.

All too often these days, the world can feel like a dark and dangerous place. But music remains a light in the bleakness, offering a constant sense hope and joy and celebration. In Turkey the ominous shadows have been growing longer for several years but Baba Zula have been a shining beacon for 20 years, bringing the West and the Orient together in a glory of Istanbul psychedelia. To celebrate those two decades of existence, XX brings together tracks from across Baba Zula’s history, along with a second album of dubs created by artists like Mad Professor. Dr. Das of Asian Dub Foundation, and Dirtmusic.

“We wanted to have a compilation that was a little different,” explains group founder and electric saz player Osman Murat Ertel. “None of the pieces here are in their original forms. Instead, we picked remixes, re-recordings, collaborations, live tracks, all the possibilities, but none of these have been released before. And it’s a mix of recording techniques – digital, analogue, tape, mp3.”

Formed by Ertel and Levent Akman in 1996, Baba Zula took Turkish psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s like Moğollar as their inspiration and foundation for what they called Istanbul psychedelia, the fathers of a scene that’s since grown up around them.

Since then Baba Zula have played all over the world, won awards for their work in film and theatre, often been rewarded at the Turkish Billboard awards, and had their albums counted among the most prestigious ever released in Turkey. They’ve also built a global network of like-minded performers, experimental souls in all genres of music, working with people as varied as Turkish opera singer Semiha Berksoy, dub mixer Mad Professor, and Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit. And that, to Ertel, is one of the band’s great successes.

“It’s exciting to collaborate with people you listened to when you were young. It’s a great inspiration and a huge fulfilment in dreaming something and having it come true. And it becomes a link of friendship.”

And now, with 20 years behind them, what’s next for Baba Zula?
“I never thought it would last this long,” Ertel admits. “Maybe another 20 years is possible, maybe not. But living here in Turkey, I don’t know about the future. I hope the band could continue without me. We give our messages very carefully for those who can understand them. But I do know it’s important to carry on; you can be gone anytime.”

Aşıkların Sözü Kalır (Eternal Is The Word of Poets)

Baba Zula - Asiklarin Sözü Kalir (Eternal Is The Word of Poets)

Vokal: Merve Daşdemir

Hey gidi gidi koca dünya
Gam yükümüsün
Söyle fani dünya söyle
Dert küpümüsün

Dünya handır han içinde
Yaşar o ruh can içinde
Rüya gibi gelir geçer
İnsanoğlu gam içinde

Dertli ağlar dertsiz ağlar
Dünya içinde

Hey gidi gidi koca dünya
Gam yükümüsün
Söyle fani dünya söyle
Dert küpümüsün

Dünya döner değirmende
İnsan içinde çavdardır
Bugün gelen yarın gider
Dolup boşalan bir handır

Goca Dünya 7" Single

Altın Gün - Goca Dünya (2017)

From the forthcoming Altin Gun album 'On' . Out on Bongo Joe Records 
Mid March 2018.

Tatli Dile Guler Yuze

Rework of a pretty rare Turkish funk tune.

Original version is in included on "Various – Bosporus Bridges - A Wide Selection Of Turkish Jazz And Funk 1969-1978" compliled by my friend Roskow Kretschmann AKA Sygaire who has recently released "Bosporus Bridges Vol. 2" on his Black Pearl Records!

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Erkut Taçkın – Sevmek İstiyorum - MM Rework

Altin Gün - Supurgesi Yoncadan

Aşık Veysel was born in 1894. He caught smallpox at the age of seven, often a deadly disease. He survived the illness, but lost eyesight of the left eye. After an accident, he lost sight of the right eye as well, which left him virtually blind. This is when, with his father's encouragement, he took possession of a saz and started playing it. He was instructed by a friend of his father, who taught him works of the great "aşık"s such as Pir Sultan Abdal, Karacaoğlan, Dertli, and Rühsati.

Altın Gün - Anlatmam Derdimi (Emrah Yalcin Edit)

Moğollar
http://www.discogs.com/Mo%C4%9Follar-Anadolu-Pop/release/1441215

Les Mogol
http://www.discogs.com/Les-Mogol-Danses-Et-Rythmes-De-La-Turquie-DHier-Aujourdhui/release/1004589

Les Mogol - Sunset In Golden Horn / Moğollar - Haliç'te Gün Batışı

Ordunun Dereleri , from the forthcoming album Yol.
Out on Glitterbeat Records (Europe) and ATO Records (America)

Produced by Altin Gun and Asa Moto

Ordunun Dereleri

Second single of the forthcoming Altin Gun album 'Yol'
Out January 13 on ATO Records (America) and Glitterbeat Records (Europe)

Ordunun Dereleri

Altin Gun

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