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V/A Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits By Barış K - Volume I-VI

Istanbul 70 is a compilation originally made and released in 2011 (with the subtitle "Psych, Disco & Folk Classics") that brings together songs from different eras. Many of them were edited by Baris K, one of Turkey's most prominent DJs, and the edits were released on sets of three 7" 45s and 12" singles. What you are holding in your hands is the collected contents of those 7"s and 12"s, containing all of Baris' edits of classic tracks mainly originally from the late 70s when disco swept the planet. There is an impressive diversity on display here despite the similarity of many of the arrangements of that era. The first track, "Hal Hal," is a love story set in a village and composed by Barış Manço, one of Turkey's absolute most iconic popular musicians. This version is performed by film star Nazan Şoray. Elsewhere on this compilation you will encounter another performance by Nazan Şoray, "Teselliye Sen Gerek,” written by known pop hitmaker Ali Kocatepe. The latter track perfectly exemplifies ‘arabesque’, the dominant music style of the era. "İkimiz Bir Fidanız" is originally an arabesque composition by Hakkı Bulut, one of the hit-makers of that new genre, but this version here, sung by Kamuran Akkor, is more of a ‘westernized’ arrangement. “Ayrılık" performed by Edip Akbayram with his band Dostlar, Erkin Koray’s “Cemalım" arrangement, and "Nem Alacak Felek Benim" performed by Cem Karaca are all important pieces adapted from Turkish folk/roots music. Likewise, "Derman Bulunmaz" by Ersen with Dadaşlar: the folk song from the Sivrialan region has been recorded with the touch of Taner Öngür and Fehiman Uğurdemir. "Yaz Gazeteci”, by Derdiyoklar, published in 1984 in Germany within their sub-genre-defining album called "Disco-Folk", is another title that directly reflects the political atmosphere of its time. It was originally composed by Aşık Mahzuni Şerif, who was one of the last figures of the troubadour tradition, traveling from village to village with their ‘saz’, turning people’s problems and complaints into folk songs to get them heard, before they happened to be broadcasted on radio or pressed on vinyl. Note that Mahzuni was a figure that got arrested for his lyrics, as his records were often confiscated in a manner similar to Brazilian artists like Chico Buarque or Taiguara during the same era. "Dönme Dolap" is another Ali Kocatepe composition which represented Turkey at the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. It didn't fare very well but proved quite popular on the home front regardless. Performed by Modern Folk Üçlüsü, an interesting band of the era influenced by America's Kingston Trio, playing folk songs in polyphonic. The featured version is performed by Ayşegül Aldinç, who would also become a pop-star over the next few years. It was one of the band's last works but one of her first. “Dalkavuk", is a later track Şenay who was popular with her freedom songs in the 70s. Another product of this same disco line is idiosyncratic singer Urfalı Babi's "Disko Kebap". Osman İşmen's arrangement of "TV Ara Müziği" (literally, "TV Interlude Music") is self-explanatory, being the music heard as a placeholder behind landscape images when TRT was having technical difficulties during a broadcast. Istanbul 70 tells us the story of Western Music in the land of Turkey, showing us the panorama of an era, through the filter of popular songs. This compilation carries the diversity of this genre into the present...and of course to the future.
  • Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits By Barış K - Volume I-VI
  • Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits By Barış K - Volume I-VI
  • Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits By Barış K - Volume I-VI
  • Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits By Barış K - Volume I-VI
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