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I regret not being born in the 50's/60's era and having danced to Anatolian Rock and Turkish Psychedelic Rock in the 70's as a teenager. Going out to shows and concerts must have been such a priceless experience when all of these musicians were young and performing all around town. These genres are two of the most unique and original type of Turkish music that came out of Anatolia. It is such a great hybrid of 60's and 70's Western rock music with Turkish pop/folk as well as Turkish Arabesque that resonates from the Middle East. Below, I shared 26 of my favorite songs from this era, which are extremely influenced by the psychedelic and progressive rock movement of their time.
Ironically, San Francisco was the capital of American Psychedelic Music starting in the 60's. Learning about Turkey's psychedelic music scene while living in San Francisco added another layer of nostalgia to it. I had heard some of the old Turkish rock songs while living back in Istanbul, though I wasn't aware of their unique style, and them being a part of a well-established genre. As I learned more about these musicians and their almost 50 years old songs, the excitement and happiness grew. I guess that's why I wanted to take the time to write about them in a detailed article. It only gets better when you share.
Turkish rock, funk and pop music of the 1960s and 1970s are very little known outside of Turkey, though their special aesthetic are worth to be considered. It is sung mainly in Turkish, using traditional musical structures but played with an electrified and electronic instrument setting that combines Western pop-rock instruments with old Turkish ones. [src]
Turkish folk music is a combination of distinct cultural values, taste of music and structures related to the people who have lived in Anatolia. It is an umbrella that covers Byzantine Music, Military Bands, Whirling Derwishes, Arabesk, et al. [src]
I would like to mention that arabesk a.k.a. arabesque music has a bad reputation in Turkey. It was made for the poor rural immigrants and workers, living in gecekondus (slums), informal settlements in the periphery of the big cities like Istanbul. Arabesk music was also called "minibüs" music (private minibuses providing public transportation) due to the social group it aims to. It was even regarded as impure, dirty, degenerated with its Arabic and therefore non-Turkish orientation, being so far away from the bourgeois urban center and its well-educated, Western-orientated population. [src]
Anatolian Rock and Psychedelic Turkish Rock were highly affected by the local music like folk, pop and arabesk as well as western rock trends of its era. Influence was pretty much one of the key factors of this development process. While I was researching about the Anatolian and Psychedelic Turkish Rock origins, I realized that major musicians of this era worked with each other throughout the entire decade or even more. For instance, Barış Manço, perhaps the most succesful one of all, was a member of Kurtalan Ekspres, Kaygısızlar, Moğollar, and Harmoniler. Cem Karaca, on the other hand, was also a member of Moğollar, Apaşlar and Kardaşlar. He was also the band manager for Bunalımlar, one of the first funk bands in Turkey. Another example is Selda, who was a vocalist for both Moğollar and Kardaşlar. Ersen was a member of both Kardaşlar, Dadaşlar, 3 Hürel and Moğollar. They played together, managed each others' bands, (perhaps partied) and influenced each other dramatically.
Fikret Kızılok is one of the fathers of Turkish Rock music, who is a multi-instrumentalist, an early experimentalist, and one of the best educated and sophisticated musicians of his era. He was also an innovative instrumentalist and album arranger, the first to incorporate sitar and Indian tabla into Turkish pop music [src]. Fikret is the first one that met with Aşık Veysel and got permission to cover his famous poem "Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim". He made the first version of it in 1969, which claimed the first position on charts and became his first golden album. Then, the others followed his lead and made different versions of the same song. Above, I shared my personal favorite, Özdemir Erdoğan's version.
Mogollar, a.k.a. The Mongols, is yet another internationally recognized Turkish Rock Band, who won the Grand Prix du Disque award with their album Anadolu Pop in 1971 (Les Danses et Rythmes de la Turquie d'hier á aujourd'hui). Haliç'te Gün Batışı (Sunset in Golden Horn), is one of the best songs from the same album. Taner Öngür's syncopated epic bass line and Murat Ses' delirious hammond organ improvisations are the most remarkable elements making this song an unforgettable one.
Now, we are rewinding a little back in time to understand one of the most important factors of this era. In 1965, one of the largest Turkish newspapers, Hürriyet (Freedom), organized a music contest called Altın Mikrofon (Golden Microphone). They set their goal as "Redirecting Turkish music using technique and style of the western music as well as the instruments of the western music.", and they pretty much achieved it. The Golden Microphone contest led the musicians to face a simple fact: to win the praise of the masses, they had to do what the audience demanded. It was conducted on a tour of Anatolia, causing the people outside the big cities to be exposed to pop music, which in turn led many young musicians to get into action to create some sort of music. A kind of music that was highly original. The more Anatolian and folk tunes that were integrated into their music, the more they were loved. And this was enough to light a spark. [src]
Erol Büyükburç started his music career before the leading musicians in this article, however, he wasn't able to become one of the major Turkish Rock artists of the era. He was also the first musician who composed and sang Little Lucy in English in 1958. With Hop Dedik, he was placed in Love Peace & Poetry Turkish Psychedelic Music compilation in 2005.
Barış Manco (barış means peace) is not only a internationally recognized musician but an important public figure in Turkey. His dedication for building a better world for everyone resonated in his lyrics, TV shows for children and through his personal ties with international figures. He ca be called the most successful musician considering his 200 songs, translated songs, world-wide concerts, and best-selling & most-awarded musician to date [src]. As a manifestation of his interest in foreign languages, he was fluent in Turkish, French, English and Japanese, and could comfortably carry a conversation in German, Arabic, Dutch, Spanish and Italian [src]. I collected four of his songs in this list. There are many more as you have already realized, however, this list can be only so long..
Salute the queen of Turkish Rock Music. Selda Bağcan is a folk, pop and rock singer, song-writer, and a multi-instrumentalist, who started her career in the last year of her college degree Ankara University's physics engineering department [src]. Her music has been sampled by famous musicians including Mos Def and Oh No. She was also a strong political figure. By 1979, Turkey was having a very polarized situation in terms of politics, and with her album, Selda was sentenced to 500 years in prison.
This song is from the first album of HARDAL (Mustard) with the title "NASIL? NE ZAMAN?" (How? When?), which was recorded in Turkey (1979). The band had four members Şükrü Yüksel (guitar), Aydın Şencan (bass), Cahit Kukul (guitar) and Sedat Avcı (drums). The band was only known by a very small insider-group, but those fans just adored Hardal. The secret of Hardal's small popularity is that in 1979 the Turkish rock scene was comatose due to the political scene right before the coup d'état in 1980. Cem Karaca left for Germany, Erkin Koray moved to Canada, Edip Akbayram got stuck because of his political ambitions. Only Barış Manço was still on the road those days, when it was tough to start a new band in Turkey. The music is the best Turkish progressive underground you can think of. Filled with guitars, synth sounds, great eastern vibe vocals and harmonies, pumping rhythms, as good as the best Koray tracks for sure. [src]
This is Turkey's most notorious and dirty psychedelic underground band. They were formed in 1969 with the aim of having underground music reach wider audiences. They couldn't succeed well as their approach was very much wilder and uncompromising than any of their peers at the time; God, they were crazy! Running all nude down the Istiklal Street, psychedelic light shows, crazy paintings all over the stage wall and screaming of "LSD! LSD!" in their live shows." [source]
As a son of a navy colonel, Erkut started his music career at the Naval Academy in Turkey during his education. Like the other musicians of the era, he started with covers of famous American rock/pop songs, then switched to Anatolian & Psychedelic Rock Music. This is the only brass heavy song in this article. Glad to have it.
An important impetus for Turkish music occurred in 1699, when Austria and the Ottoman Empire negotiated the Treaty of Karlowitz. To celebrate the treaty, the Turkish diplomatic delegation brought a Janissary band along with other performers to Vienna for several days of performances.
Although the Janissary sound was familiar in Europe during the 18th century, the Classical composers were not the first to make use of it; rather, the first imitators were military bands. The cultural influence at first involved actual importation of Turkish musicians, as Henry George Farmer relates:
Eventually it became possible to write music with bass drum, triangle, cymbals, and piccolo without evoking a Turkish atmosphere, and in the later 19th century symphonic composers made free use of these instruments. Thus, in the long run, the Turkish instruments are a gift to Western classical music from the Ottoman military music tradition.
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