Towards the end of 2021 and fresh off the back of releasing their second album, ‘Melodi', Kit Sebastian recorded their first Lagniappe Session for the much-respected audio journal, Aquarium Drunkard. Taking the momentum of the album campaign and channelling it into a covers project, the band reimagined Turkish pop sensation Sezen Aksu and avant Londoners, Stereolab in their own unique style. Having originally been an exclusive for Aquarium Drunkard, the EP is now seeing its commercial release. 

Sezen Aksu is one of the band's favourite Turkish singers / songwriters, inspiring them through her effortless mix of different genres, playful lyrics and captivating vocals. The original version of ‘Şinanay’ is a beautiful example of late 80’s Turkish disco pop. The lyrics belong to an important Turkish poet, Melih Cevdet Anday, who talks about the ferry that goes to Istanbul’s Princes’ Islands carrying and bringing together different segments and races of society. Kit Sebastian transformed the song into something more delicate and smoother, with a Brazilian inspired rhythm on guitar and jazz piano lines.

As fans of Stereolab and having drawn regular comparison since the release of their debut album, 'French Disko’ stood out as an interesting piece of music to cover. The deadpan intensity of the original is a hard-to-produce effect and Stereolab achieved it so well. So, they thought: how would Stereolab sound if they revisited it? The result was dark guitar lines, loud, Latin percussion, and J.S Bach inspired synths. La Resistance!

Kit Sebastian - Şinanay

Mazhar ve Fuat - Adımız Miskindir Bizim

Mustafa Özkent - Burçak Tarlası (sped up)

ripped from simon harrison's basic soul radio show. enjoy :)

Erkin Koray - Öksürük (fattish Reedit)

A project, dedicated to bring the non-mainstream pieces from the Turkish Rock History into light with unique art works.
Illustration: Seliço

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Unfortunately, there is little known about L.S.D. Orkestrası. They were a psychedelic rock band, as their name suggests. They competed in a Battle of the Bands organized by the newspaper Milliyet. Their only known single, Dönmeyen Sevgili / Neye Geldin Dünyaya was released in 1967 by Melofon label.

"All music rights belong to their rightful owners."

L.S.D. Orkestrası - Dönmeyen Sevgili (1967)

ZOR BEYLER-Gözündeki Yaşlarına

Un petit edit fait maison de ce superbe titre de Melike Demirag 
1975
Turkey
Originale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zVkvJQv91o

MELIKE DEMIRAG - HADI CANIM SENDE (Bagarre Edit)

taken from "İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir"
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“Su Akyol’s voice is light but elegant, and her songs are by turns urgent, sultry and romantic and politically barbed. The new sound of Istanbul.”
--The Observer

With the release of her first international album “Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu” (2016), Gaye Su Akyol established herself as one of Turkey’s most compelling young voices and most exhilarating sonic explorers. Her work as a singer-songwriter, producer and audio/visual conceptualist, simultaneously navigates the storied past, the hyper-connected present and the unscripted future.

Growing up in cosmopolitan Istanbul listening to Anatolian music icon Selda Bağcan and Kurt Cobain in equal measure, Akyol skipped right over the tired Oriental/Occidental paradigmatic clichés. Gaye’s music was global in concept and local in spirit and nuance right from the very beginning.

Following the widespread critical acclaim for “Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu,” Gaye and her sublime band spent 18 months travelling up and down Turkey, Europe and the Middle and Far East sharing with audiences a vibrant mix of raki laced traditional balladry, futurist surf and post-punk opposition. The new album "Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir," produced by her and guitarist Ali GüçlüŞimşek, is arguably more immediate and visceral than the first two, reflecting her and the band’s growing reputation as a powerful live act.

“Istikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir,” which translates as “Consistent Fantasy is Reality,” is a deeply poetic album; an album of personalized politics, an album that digs into the heart our contentious, inexplicable contemporary experience. Never blinking. Always dreaming. Never giving in. Never giving up.

Play that song, play the vinyl, Let the storm turn around.

Released by:
    Glitterbeat Records
Release date:
    26 October 2018
P-line:
    ℗ Glitterbeat Records

Kit Sebastian - Şinanay

Mr Bongo