Showing posts with label Psych-folk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psych-folk. Show all posts

January 25, 2026

Uzak bir çocukluk anısına bir saygı duruşu

 
(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

November 2, 2025

Çöl kuşlarının cıvıltıları

(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.
 
In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.
 
Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana). 
 

October 31, 2025

Gün batımında kuşların son şarkısı

(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending.

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them. 

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").

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June 5, 2025

Bilinmeyene doğru bir yürüyüş

 
(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.
 
In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.
 
Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana).
 

April 2, 2025

Atalardan kalma gelenekleri modernize etmek

 
(Gaye Su Akyol (born 30 January 1985) is a Turkish singer, painter and anthropologist; she graduated from the anthropology department of Yeditepe University in 2007.  After that she built her career as a painter with exhibitions both in Turkey and abroad. Before her solo career, she also performed in music bands Mai, Toz ve Toz and Seni Görmem İmkansız alongside Tuğçe Şenoğul.
 
In 2017, she composed a few songs for the soundtrack of Red Istanbul a film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. In November 2023 she recorded her first performance for the Seattle radio station KEXP.
 
Inspirations include singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan and the grunge band Nirvana). 
 

January 10, 2024

الرقص على الرمال المغلية

 
(Oriental Rare Groove (Rare Funky Songs From The Arabic World) is an Arabian Funk/Folk compilation made by French label Wagram Music).
 

Türk efsanelerinin şarkıları

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

September 25, 2023

Sıcak kumların üzerinde dans etmek

 
(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

May 13, 2023

Perdeleri gökyüzüne fırlat

 
(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).
 
Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 
 
Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them. 
 
In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").
 

March 15, 2023

Geri dönüşü olmayan bir veda için

 
(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

March 13, 2023

Kutsal geleneklere haraç

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

March 8, 2023

夢のようなカラフルな午後

 
(Kikagaku Moyo (幾何学模) is a Tokyo based Japanese psychedelic rock band formed by Tomo Katsurada and Go Kurosawa in 2013.Actually the band is fomed by Tomo Katsurada, Daoud Popal, Ryu Kurosawa, Kotsu Guy and Go Kurosawa).
 

February 12, 2023

Ataların ritimlerini onurlandırmak

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).

January 12, 2023

Atalara saygıdan

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

November 18, 2022

Doft av gamla skogar

 
(Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music).
 

October 24, 2022

Hayallerin köprüsünün altında

 
(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them.  

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").

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July 23, 2022

از رقص مهاراجه لذت ببرید

 
(Mehrpouya (born Abbas Mehrpooya عباس مهرپویا in Tehran, 1927) was an Iranian poet, translator, actor, guitarist, sitar and santur player, organist and multi-musician; he introduced the sitar in popular music in Iran.
 
He had a habit of using natural instruments such as bones or pots he used as percussion; he also composed and performed music and songs for the Iranian cinema, in a series of films such as Battle with Satan and The Love Thief (1952). Mehrpouya  died at Tehran in 1992).

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June 10, 2022

Paralel evrenler arasında mükemmel füzyon

 
(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them.  

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album").

Here

June 3, 2022

Antik topraklarda yürümek

 
(Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them.  

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album")

Here

May 27, 2022

Sabır sanatı bizi büyütür

 
Altın Gün is a Dutch Amsterdam-based project founded in 2016, mixing Turkish folk, psychedelia, funk and rock. The band is formed by Jasper Verhulst (bass), Ben Rider (guitar), Merve Dasdemir (vocals), Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit (vocals, saz, keys), Gino Groeneveld (Percussion) and Daniel Smienk (drums).

Altin Gün ("Golden Day") plays Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Manço, Selda Bağcan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gün’s. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and heavily mind bending. 

Manço, Bağcan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gün, but their foremost inspiration is Neşet Ertaş, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and you’re getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gün retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertaş’s songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Ertaş wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gün have done on them.  

In 2019 they were nominated for a Grammy for their album Gece in the category "Best World Music Album".

Here