Cross The Bosphorus
This is a playlist that contains songs from the “New Wave Turkish Psychedelic Music”
featuring artists like
Baba Zula, Mad Professor, Barcelona Gipsy Klemzer Orchestra, Nihan Devecioglu, Gaye Su Akyol, Erkin Koray
This is a playlist that contains songs from the “New Wave Turkish Psychedelic Music”, mainly based in Istanbul. It overthrows the norms of the expected music in Turkey and the world. It connects the East to the West, just like the Bosphorus Bridge, with sultry Eastern rhythms and peculiar lyrics. It’s about and for the beautiful people of the music world who are bored of traditions and social norms. Cross the Bosphorus while sipping your “raki”!
Bir Sana Bir De Bana – Baba Zula
16 January 2019
“Born in Istanbul in 1996, Baba ZuLa features founding members Levent Akman (spoons, percussions, machines, toys), Murat Ertel (electric saz and other stringed instruments, vocals, oscillators, theremin), as well as darbuka and percussion player Ümit Adakale, Periklis Tsoukalas on electric ud and vocal…
Yagmur Yağar – Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra
11 December 2018
“Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra (BGKO) is a band created in 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. The band draws on many musical influences, including Klezmer music, Jazz Manouche, and Roma music…
Gnossienne No.1 – Erkan Oğur
14 November 2018
“Hailing from Elazig, a town in East Anatolia, but born in Ankara in 1954, Erkan Oğur started on violin as a child and learned cumbus, a small fretless lute, from local musicians playing traditional dances at weddings. Hearing Jimi Hendrix on the radio was a major shock, and in high school he began studying guitar…
İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir – Gaye Su Akyol
15 October 2018
Turkish psychedelia, surf, punk, rock’n roll and a lot more! Our very own Gaye Su Akyol is back with a single from her upcoming album with the same name: İstikikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir (Consistent Fantasy Is Reality)…
Goca Dunya – Erkin Koray
25 September 2018
“The King of Rock”, Erkin Koray is one of the fathers of Turkish psychedelic rock music. He is one of the three legends of the genre. The others are Barış Manço and Cem Karaca. He has a great voice and unique guitar skills but also he is an inventor,…
Kınalıada – Nilipek
11 September 2018
Nilipek. is a Istanbul-based singer-songwriter who blends her own stories with common emotions while singing calmly on a music that varies from acoustic pop to alternative rock…
Eylül Akşamı – Bülent Ortaçgil
4 September 2018
Admittedly one of the best Turkish songwriters, Bülent Ortaçgil is the life jacket for the intellectual music listener. Over the years, getting more and more upset at being thought of as making peaceful songs, he combined his acoustic creations with his deeply thought, multi-layered critical lyrics and recorded with some of the best musicians in the country…
Gypsy Love – Light In Babylon
29 August 2018
The core trio of the band (vocals and percussion: Michal Elia Kamal, santour: Metehan Çifçi, guitar: Julien Demarque) met in 2010, in İstanbul. They started their music career performing on the street, mainly on the famous İstiklal Avenue of İstanbul. After that, Stuart Dickson and Jack Butler joined as support to their stage performances…
İnce İnce (Hey Douglas Remix) – Selda Bağcan
21 August 2018
Selda Bağcan is one of the most influential artists of the psychedelic scene of Turkey. She started her music career in the 70s. She immediately attained success and started her concerts, mainly in Turkey and Germany. She also starred in traditional Turkish movies known as ‘Yeşilçam movies’…
Islak Islak – Cem Karaca
14 August 2018
Turkish rock pioneer Cem Karaca was born April 5, 1945 to professional actors Mehmet Ibrahim Karaca and Irma Felekyan. He first performed in a cover band called “the Dynamites,” followed an Elvis Presley tribute group called “the Jaguars”; and from there Karaca eventually began writing his own original songs, honing a massively influential style that combined traditional Anatolian lyrics with cutting-edge contemporary rock melodies…
Dönence – Barış Manço
31 July 2018
Although he didn’t have an outstanding voice, Barış Manço became one of the most popular figures in modern Turkish music history. In a time when his country was swimming in a sea of political madness, he managed to hold back his personal view and reach out to every single possible listener, no matter what origin or religion they were coming from…
Helva Selva – Timboletti
17 July 2018
“Rumours have it that he escaped from a confetti factory in some faraway place, and that he was on the road with a flea circus afterwards. That would explain why all those sepia-coloured scenes from exotic places appear before the inner eye of his listeners: With the steady, hypnotic rattle of a steam train in the background, they show sequences from Middle East, South America, India, and from the infinite realms of Inner Space.
