From the CD-R "Hayvanlar Alemi Tatilde", re-released on "Demolar 2008-2009".
Track title suggested by an audience member when the song first came out on stage in a Find-a-Title-for-This-Improvisation contest.  

Özüm İtez on guitar, Gökçe Başar on guitar, Hazar Mutgan on bass, Işık Sarıhan on drums. 
Recorded at Raven Studios, Ankara - 2009.

download the whole album for free from Free Music Archive: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hayvanlar_Alemi/Hayvanlar_Alemi_Tatilde/

Also coming out in May 2015 on Glitterbeat label, as a bonus track for the vinyl re-issue of the 2010 cdr "Visions of a Psychedelic Ankara".

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Hayvanlar Alemi - Crossroad Metamorphosis

from the cdr "Visions of a Psychedelic Ankara". (2010)
download the whole album for free from Free Music Archive.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hayvanlar_Alemi/Visions_of_a_Psychedelic_Ankara/

To be re-issued on vinyl on Glitterbeat label with bonus tracks, May 2015.

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Hayvanlar Alemi - Quantum Lion

From the album "Evidence of Life on Earth: Concert Recordings from Ankara, Istanbul and Belgrade, 2018-2019"
(Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series #9)
Inverted Spectrum Records, 2023

Özüm İtez: Guitar
Hazar Mutgan: Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums

Composed by İtez, Mutgan, Sarıhan, Başar
Recorded by Tom Madge, Haymatlos, Ankara, 29.11.2019

Stream or download the full album at:
https://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evidence-of-life-on-earth-concert-recordings-from-ankara-istanbul-and-belgrade-2018-2019

Video trailer: youtu.be/kiwCht2Zh5Q

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Evidence of Life on Earth: Concert Recordings from Ankara, Istanbul and Belgrade, 2018​-​2019

Crossroad Metamorphosis (Ankara 2019)

Hayvanlar Alemi - Crossroad Metamorphosis (Ankara 2019)

From the album "Evidence of Life on Earth: Concert Recordings from Ankara, Istanbul and Belgrade, 2018-2019"
(Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series #9)
Inverted Spectrum Records, 2023

Özüm İtez: Guitar
Hazar Mutgan: Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums

Composed by İtez, arranged by H.A.
Recorded by Tom Madge, Haymatlos, Ankara, 29.11.2019

Stream or download the full album at:
https://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evidence-of-life-on-earth-concert-recordings-from-ankara-istanbul-and-belgrade-2018-2019

Video trailer: youtu.be/kiwCht2Zh5Q

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Equatorial Lies (Ankara 2019)

Hayvanlar Alemi - Equatorial Lies(Ankara 2019)

"Hadron Collider Twist" by Hayvanlar Alemi, off the 2014 album "Twisted Souvenirs" released on vinyl on Unrock: http://hayvanlaralemi.org/twisted-souvenirs.html
And now available in digital format ('name your price') on Inverted Spectrum Records: http://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/releases

Recorded on July 5 2012 at Molotov Studios, Stockholm, by Özüm İtez (guitar), Işık Sarıhan (drums), Hazar Mutgan (bass), Gökçe Başar (guitar). 

"Extraordinarily nimble and muscular, the players contribute frenzied performances that urge the listener to move - exceedingly rare in modern rock. Hayvanlar Alemi attack their compositions with the bloodthirsty zeal of peak Kyuss, but Twisted Souvenirs is a great deal more inspired and imaginative than any so called desert rock." - Wire

Twisted Souvenirs is available from Unrock (DE), Norman Records (UK) and Forced Exposure (US).
http://www.unrock.de/hayvanlar-alemi-twisted-souvernirs-lp-black-vinyl/
https://www.normanrecords.com/records/145404-hayvanlar-alemi-twisted-souvenirs-
http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/UNROCK.003LP.html

Twisted Souvenirs tour dates:
18/09/2014: Hamburg - Astra-Stube
20/09/2014: Copenhagen - Global Copenhagen
21/09/2014: Berlin - ACUD
25/09/2014: Ghent - Vooruit
26/09/2014: Brussels - Les Ateliers Claus
27/09/2014: Krefeld - Unrock

(Image: Detail from the collage titled "july 5, 2012" by Fred Tomaselli.) 

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Hayvanlar Alemi - Hadron Collider Twist

"Karecikler Dolmadan" by Hayvanlar Alemi, off the 2014 album "Twisted Souvenirs" released on vinyl on Unrock.

hayvanlaralemi.org/twisted-souvenirs.html
And now available in digital format on Inverted Spectrum Records: http://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/releases

Recorded at Deneyevi, İstanbul, winter 2012, by Özüm İtez (guitar), Işık Sarıhan (drums), Hazar Mutgan (bass).

"Extraordinarily nimble and muscular, the players contribute frenzied performances that urge the listener to move - exceedingly rare in modern rock. Hayvanlar Alemi attack their compositions with the bloodthirsty zeal of peak Kyuss, but Twisted Souvenirs is a great deal more inspired and imaginative than any so called desert rock." - Wire

Twisted Souvenirs is available on vinyl from Unrock (DE), Norman Records (UK) and Forced Exposure (US).
www.unrock.de/hayvanlar-alemi-tw…rs-lp-black-vinyl/
www.normanrecords.com/records/145404…ted-souvenirs-
www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/UNROCK.003LP.html

Twisted Souvenirs tour dates:
18/09/2014: Hamburg - Astra-Stube
20/09/2014: Copenhagen - Global Copenhagen
21/09/2014: Berlin - ACUD
25/09/2014: Ghent - Vooruit
26/09/2014: Brussels - Les Ateliers Claus
27/09/2014: Krefeld - Unrock

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Hayvanlar Alemi - Karecikler Dolmadan

Hayvanlar Alemi - Equatorial Lies (4:32)
Released as a digital split single on Pakapi Records, backed with "El Palteado" by Peruvian supergroup Shhjjjjjjj.
https://pakapirecords.bandcamp.com/album/hayvanlar-alemi-shhjjjjjjj

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUSbAQt46Qc
Video footage: Onur Ceritoğlu, Özüm İtez
Video by: Özüm İtez, Işık Sarıhan
 
music: Özüm İtez (arr. by İtez, Sarıhan, Mutgan.); recorded at Stüdyo Soundrock - İstanbul (2015) by Akın Ağzıtemiz. Mixed and mastered by Hayvanlar Alemi (2016). Cover illustration by Pakapi Records.
 
Özüm İtez: Guitars, Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums and Percussion
 
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Hayvanlar Alemi - Equatorial Lies

Yekermo Sew by Hayvanlar Alemi. 7'' single released by Sublime Frequencies - 8 May 2012.
composed by Mulatu Astatke, arranged by Hayvanlar Alemi.
Özüm İtez: guitar; Hazar Mutgan: bass; Işık Sarıhan: drums and percussion.
Recorded at Deneyevi, Istanbul - December 2011.
www.hayvanlaralemi.org
www.sublimefrequencies.com

Also released on the 2014 album "Twisted Souvenirs". 
http://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/releases
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Hayvanlar Alemi - Yekermo Sew

"Kaptan Hayvanlar Alemi 2011" is our contribution to the third online Turkish underground music compilation by Karga Bar, "Kompile Karga 03", which was released for free download in May 2012. The song is an upgrade of our track "Kaptan Hayvanlar Alemi" that was released in our cdr "Summer Hits 2007".

composed and performed by:
Gökçe Başar: guitar
Özüm İtez: guitar
Hazar Mutgan: bass
Işık Sarıhan: drums

Recorded at Raven Studios, Ankara - summer 2011.
www.hayvanlaralemi.org

also released on the 2014 Hayvanlar Alemi album "Twisted Souvenirs"
http://invertedspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/releases
http://hayvanlaralemi.org/twisted-souvenirs.html
https://www.facebook.com/hayvanlaralemi.band

Hayvanlar Alemi - Kaptan Hayvanlar Alemi 2011

Hayvanlar Alemi
Amcalarla Teyzeler
Hayvantropolojik Alan Kayıtları Serisi no.7
Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series # 7

Released in December 2019 as part of a series of archival releases to mark the 20th year of Hayvanlar Alemi. Amcalarla Teyzeler was recorded in unusual circumstances in January 2008, during our first visit to Hazar after he moved from Ankara to Stockholm to pursue a master's degree. He was living in a single-room flat on a residential corridor atop a shopping mall. It was our final night, and we couldn't go out because Özüm had a severe back pain acquired the night before due to standing up too much at the casino we visited. So we decided to stay at Hazar's place and record a song with whatever we had available at hand. There was a computer with a midi keyboard, a microphone, Hazar's bass guitar, and a couple of cheap and cheesy instruments we bought there - a ukulele and a stylophone. Amcalarla Teyzeler was a song that first appeared in a very skeletal form during a studio improv in early 2000s, and even though we never played it again afterwards, it got stuck in our head with some ideas gradually developing around it, so on that Stockholm evening we decided that the time has come to give it a shape. The release of the song got postponed many times because it didn't fit anywhere, and we were not able to work on the mix further because the original channels got lost at some point.

Hazar Mutgan: Bass, vocals.
Özüm İtez: Distorted ukulele, vocals.
Işık Sarıhan: Programming, midi keyboard, stylophone, sampling, vocals. 

Sample: "El Bebek Gül Bebek" by Emel Sayın.

Words by Işık Sarıhan.
Composed by Hayvanlar Alemi.

Limited to 100 downloads.

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Hayvanthropological Field Recordings Series #7: Amcalarla Teyzeler

Amcalarla Teyzeler

Hayvanlar Alemi - Amcalarla Teyzeler (2008)

"Thundercloud Museum" from the album "Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence", out on Subsound Records, 27 March 2020, on CD, LP and digital. 

Video: youtu.be/F3nBVrDCLlg

Stream and order from:
https://hayvanlaralemi.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelia-in-times-of-turbulence

In the spring of 2017, Hayvanlar Alemi closed themselves in a studio in a small Italian town for a few days and recorded material for multiple future releases. Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence includes the heavier compositions that came out of these sessions, and marks a further stage in the band's 20 year history with a more layered production and an emphasis on slower, progressive compositions that carry elements from drone metal, stoner rock and psychedelic doom, while subtly preserving the overtones of the band's brand of globally-informed folkloric psych rock. This album presents the side of Hayvanlar Alemi which tends towards the darker without losing the colors, and tends towards the sombre without losing the vitality, with songs that surrender to gravity but refuse to touch the ground.
credits

Özüm İtez: Guitar
Hazar Mutgan: Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums and Percussion

Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence

Hayvanlar Alemi - Thundercloud Museum (Psychedelia In Times Of Turbulence, Subsound Records 2020)

"Thundercloud Museum" from the album "Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence", out on Subsound Records, 27 March 2020, on CD, LP and digital.

Stream and order from:
hayvanlaralemi.bandcamp.com/album/psych…-turbulence

In the spring of 2017, Hayvanlar Alemi closed themselves in a studio in a small Italian town for a few days and recorded material for multiple future releases. Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence includes the heavier compositions that came out of these sessions, and marks a further stage in the band's 20 year history with a more layered production and an emphasis on slower, progressive compositions that carry elements from drone metal, stoner rock and psychedelic doom, while subtly preserving the overtones of the band's brand of globally-informed folkloric psych rock. This album presents the side of Hayvanlar Alemi which tends towards the darker without losing the colors, and tends towards the sombre without losing the vitality, with songs that surrender to gravity but refuse to touch the ground.
credits

Özüm İtez: Guitar
Hazar Mutgan: Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums and Percussion

Hayvanlar Alemi - News of the World (Psychedelia In Times Of Turbulence, Subsound Records 2020)


[the song is originally released under the title "Stamina". (Guarana Superpower - Sublime Frequencies 2010) Işık Sarıhan on drums and percussion, Özüm İtez on guitar, bass and stylophone.]

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Hayvanlar Alemi - Direnç

Hayvanlar Alemi is an instrumental psychedelic folk rock band founded in Ankara in 1999. Throughout the years, the band has developed a style of its own, inspired by the innovative musical heritage of Turkey but also informed by the traditional and popular styles of the globe, blending together scales and rhythms of Asia, Africa, Middle East and South America with surf, dub, stoner rock and free improvisation. The ensemble’s music has been released under labels such as Sublime Frequencies (USA), Unrock (Germany) and Glitterbeat (Germany), and received positive reviews from publications such as Wire, The Guardian and Uncut. In 2018, Hayvanlar Alemi released the compilation "15 Golden Adventures" on Shalgam Records (Turkey), which includes a selection for beginners culled from the band's releases between 2008 and 2016. The band's latest album "Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence", highlighted by influences of doom and drone metal, came out in March 2020 on Subsound Records (Italy).



Hayvanlar Alemi records and tours mostly in a power trio form consisting of Özüm İtez on guitar, Hazar Mutgan on bass, and Işık Sarıhan on drums, occasionally joined by Gökçe Başar on second guitar.

For full biography, see: hayvanlaralemi.org/biography.html

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