Turkish Freakout!

Not to my liking. Can't remember whether I heard about this on NPR, or maybe read about it in the NY Times? It's been on my wish list for a long time, so I included it in an order to qualify for free shipping. Was looking forward to hearing all the tracks, but overall they sound like a mix of Santana and other 1970's guitar-based rock. I'm sure it will appeal to many, but I passed it along to my husband to share at work, with a bunch of 1970s guitar rock fans.

I bought this after hearing about it on NPR. Reflects the music of my childhood Turkey. I listen to it when I am driving, I am glad i bought it. I bought the second one too and listened to it on a road trip, with a friend who does not unerstand turkish but, she enjoyed the CD.

10/10.

This isn't going to be a comprehensively or deeply researched review, but here's my two cents. Though its various artists, it's not unlike listening to a Turkish version of Os Mutantes, the Brazilian psych band from the late-60s/early 70s. Harmonically and melodically, it will remind you of lots of North African / Middle Eastern pop...lots of modal melodies layered over beats that are mostly lively and sometimes funky. Touches of fuzz guitar pop up regularly, lots of echo and atmosphere on the vocals, performances that feel very live rather than constructed piece by piece through overdubbing. The longest track is a concise 4:38, and most of the tracks are between 2:30-3:30 (they are singles, after all), so none of the grooves wears out its welcome. This would be a great party album, a great housecleaning album, a fun driving record...the compilers have done a good job with keeping the mood hopping, the flow from track to track varied enough, and selecting very catchy material. You'll almost smell the hash smoke wafting out of your speakers.

Turkish Freakout (2013) Wow.....get ready to brush your teeth a few times during the play of this album! This aptly titled 2 LP set covers a very rare but totally cool yet freaked out genre with Turkish psychedelic rock from 1969 to 1980. The music is totally psyched out with tons of fuzzed guitars, traditional instrumentation, native vocals and lyrics and a certain rare vibe about these choice tracks. As i listened to this compilation i found myself totally just loving every track....there is not a bad track on this comp. The folks at Bouzouki joe records have done a wonderful job is pulling these long lost rare artifacts together and the sound quality is pretty good actually. I was already a little bit up on the Turkish psych scene with the likes of Erkin Koray, Baris Manco and Cem Karaka, but this 2 LP set introduced me to now a much wider bit of the music from this region. It is actually quite sad that this music is not really heard outside of the acid-drenched international music afectionados! I would think that this is an album you wont bring to your highschool grad reunion, but when no one is looking why not slip into some Turkish Freakouts!

Like wow. And then some. The variety of music here - from wigged out dervish drones to kif-influenced attempts to electronically update traditional music there is something here for anyone who likes the sound of music, even if they don't understand the words. That, incidentally, is a reference to sonic adventurers, as opposed to Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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The Turkish music scene of the late 60's and 70's has had a huge resurgence over the past 5-10 years, with the UK's 'Finders Keepers' label and South Korea's 'Word Psychedelia' label re-releasing some of the key albums of the era. There's also been upwards of half a dozen quality compilations released with this being one of them. And the compilations play an important role - much of the work by the main artists of the era (particularly Baris Manço) has either never been released on CD or if it has, it's been done using recordings made directly from original vinyl copies - buy anything from the era on CD in the records shops of Istanbul and the sound quality is invariably average or below.Unusually, this compilation ignores some of the big players on the scene - Selda, Mogollar and Edip Akbayram don't get a look in - but the two heavyweights - Erkin Koray and Baris Manço, along with Cem Karaça, are present. However, there's not a single bad track to be found here and it's much more than a Turkish Freakout; it's a Turkish Trip. I don't know what these musicians and producers were putting in their çay but on the evidence here it may have been more than just sugar at times - some of the sounds produced here sound like nothing else ever recorded. The Psych-Folk subtitle is a little misleading. Whilst its overflowing with psych vibes there's very little folk in a traditional sense on offer, however there's plenty of traditional Turkish music in the mix and the fusing of this with rock, psych, funk and jazz influences from the West is what makes Turkish music of the era so unique.It's almost impossible to select highlights as almost every track here is five star worthy. The bass is always prominent and there's plenty of fuzz guitar, baglama and that unique Turkish / Middle East back of the throat vocal delivery (particularly the female vocals). As with all Turkish music, the percussion plays a lead role and there's an abundance of Turkish clarinet vibes.Housed in a digipak and accompanied by an excellent booklet that provides descriptions of each track and reproduces the original 7" covers (all the tracks were originally released as 7" singles) which is almost worth the admission price alone.

Eine fantastische Zusammenstellung von Perlen des Anadolu Rock. Mit Künstlern wie Ersen, Barış Manço, Cem Karaca, Erkin Koray oder Apaslar sind hier absolute Highlights des türkischen Psychedelic Rock. Abzüge hätte man höchstens für das Cover geben können, das mir wenig gelungen scheint. Auch die kaum dechiffrierbare Labelkennzeichnung auf dem Vinyl ist ein Minus, zumindest wenn man DJ ist. Aber die Musik ist so genial, daß es die volle Punktezahl gibt.

Très belle compilation de 45 tours psyché/funk/beat de musique turcLes tubes de Baris Manco et Erkin Koray sont là avec d'autres petites perles super groovy et parfois délicieusement kitsch.Petit bémol pour l'illustration de la pochette ... mais à l'interieur du gatefold il y a les scans des 45t originaux avec un petit texte explicatif !