TH#108 - A Different Sunset [Graham's Selection Spring '25]

 

A

1 Fikret Kızılok – Leylim Leylim

2 Ananda Shankar – The River

3 Meral Atakök ve Üç Hürel – Masa Üstünde Testi

4 Taci Özmen - Çekilmez Bu Dünya

5 Gülsüm Kamu ve Ergun Özer Ork. – Aliyi Gördüm Aliyi

6 The Ghetto Brothers – Viva Puerto Rico Libre

7 New Colony Six – Elf Song (Ballad Of The Wingbat Marmaduke)

8 Syd Barrett – Golden Hair

9 Bruce Haack – Cherubic Hymn

10 Fikret Kızılok – Gözlerinden Bellidir

B

11 Hümeyra – Onu Bana Sakla

12 Zümra Aycan – Bilemedim

13 Augusto Martelli – Berjl's Tune

14 The Ghetto Brothers – You Say You Are My Friend

15 Cici Kızlar - Gencim, Yaşamı Severim

16 Gülcan Opel – Gavuşmak Hayal Oldu

17 Arif Sağ - Bizim Şarkımız

18 Ali Rıza Binboğa - Dost Kazanmak Kolay Değil

To welcome Spring, here's a trippy and folky selection, in the spirit of 'Voyage Sans Retour' and 'Bees & Things & Flowers'.

This time, a big half of the tunes are Anatolian / Turkish 7''s that I recently got in Ankara, Istanbul, and through my friend Ilker. Fikret Kızılok (left on the photo) and his unique voice opens the voyage with his hit 'Leylim Leylim', and the trip continues with Indian composer Ananda Shankar's 'The River'. A handful of great Anatolian folk songs follow – Meral Atakök accompanied by the young Hürel trio, protest singer Taci Özmen, and a haunting bossa-nova version of an ancient Alevi poem, 'Aliyi Gördüm Aliyi', sung by actress Gülsüm Kamu.

NYC's obscure Latino garage band The Ghetto Brothers come in with their anthem 'Viva Puerto Rico Libre' and lead the way to a more freaky psychedelic moment with New Colony Six, Syd Barrett and Bruce Haack. Then, back to Türkiye with Fikret again - and some interesting pop tunes by Hümeyra, Zümra Aycan and the trio Cici Kızlar. The latter perform in a 'Quarteto Em Cy' style (singing « I am young, I love life » in Turkish) on a cool boogaloo beat, which links with Augusto Martelli's groovy 'Berjl's Tune' and another Ghetto Brothers song. On 'Gavuşmak Hayal Oldu', Gülcan Opel teams up with bağlama master Arif Sağ , who (unusually) sings in Arabesk style on the following tune 'Bizim Şarkımız' ; and finally, Ali Rıza Binboğa concludes the adventure with the epic 'Dost Kazanmak Kolay Değil'.

Thanks : Ilker, Ethem, Helen.