The Turkish Psychedelic Explosion: Anadolu Psych 1965-1980

by Daniel Spicer

Overview

The long forgotten story of Turkish psychedelic music in the twentieth century, told in relation to the social, political and cultural climate of the time.

In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu Pop. But that was just the beginning. Through the second half of that turbulent decade, Turkish rock warped and transformed, striking out into wilder and stranger territory – fuelled by the psychedelic revolution and played out over a backdrop of cultural, social and political turmoil. 

The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered by Western crate-diggers. It’s a tale of larger-than-life musical pioneers with raging political passions and visionary ideas ripe for rediscovery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912248070
Publisher:	Watkins Media
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Daniel Spicer is a writer, broadcaster, improviser and poet based in Brighton, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

New Sounds for a New Society 11

Mogollar: The Legend on Mount Ararat 39

Cem Karaca: Poverty Is Not Destiny 57

Ersen: Don't Look Down on Me, Brother 85

3 Hürel: Life's Road Goes on Forever 97

Wednesday Morning in Kadιköy 107

Barιs Manço: Rivers Run Through the Meadows 113

Edip Akbayram: A Wispy, Wispy Snow Falls 145

Selda: The Bitter Sound of Turkey 155

Bunalιm: There Is a Stone, There Is a Dog 175

Erkin Koray: Electronic Ballads 183

The Jazz Parallel 205

A Trip to Unkapanι 225

The Axe Falls 233

Postscript 249

Notes 256

Index 266

Acknowledgements 277