ERKIN KORAY – Elektronik Türküler. Pharaway Records PHS-007, a division of Guerssen Records. Spanish release. SEALED NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Originally issued in 1974 on the Dogan Plakcilik label. This edition issued in 2012. Comes in a heavy board gatefold jacket sealed in a clear mylar resealable outer-sleeve, as shipped by the label.
TRACKS:
SIDE A:
01) Karli Dağlar (3:41)
02) Sir (2”48)
03) Hele Yar (6:25)
04) Korkulu Rüya (1:29)
05) Yalnizlar Yihtimi (4:39)
SIDE B:
06) Cemalim (7”52)
07) Inat (2:10)
08) Türkü (9:01)
DESCRIPTION: Technically his second LP after a collection of singles, this benchmark record from 1974 taught Istanbul’s musicians and pop fans how to put Turkish folk songs from the 17th century together with meaty, thundering guitar solos. With a crack bass player by his side (Ahmet Güvenç from Bunalim and Baris Manco’s Kurtalan Ekspres) and an electrified bağlama in his hands, Erkin Koray lets his gloomy baritone voice float over wiry double-reed melodies, bulging riffs, & hammer-ons that go on for-friggin-ever. Savagery begins at home people, so make sure you get a physical copy of the best record by the Turkish Hendrix into your house. Of course, we've offered versions of this album for years... here is what we had to say: terrific heavy Eastern raves and drones from Turkey's legendary freaked-out psychedelic guitar guru; fantastic sound quality on an album that basically collected some of Koray's best singles tracks up to the date of its original release by Dogan Plakcilik in 1974—the result? some of Koray's most extended tracks. The sound that first emerges as Elektronik Türküler begins is that of the plucked strings of the baglama, a sound both sensuous and languid; then comes another undulating rhythm, Koray’s instrumental, Sir (Secret), with his lead baglama book-ending a stinging psychedelic guitar solo. The mood changes with the next track, Hele Yar, an acoustic re-arrangement of a Turkish ballad from the 17th Century; here, twin baglamas construct a dance rhythm behind lilting bass and scant drums. Side two of the original LP opens with the acoustic guitar-led love ballad, Cemalim (My Cemal); this well known Anatolian folk number is well handled here with Koray’s stridently strummed acoustic guitar battling throughout against overdubbed electric guitar—background vocals waft softly in the background, echoing Koray’s hypnotic repetition of the title, accompanied by highly controlled fuzz guitar filigrees. The last track is the nine-minute odyssey that is Türkü (Ballad): the swirling kalem, that Turkish double-reed wind instrument of snake charming tendencies, weaves a truly psychedelic arabesque against a foundation of solid bass and drums; the voice of Koray emerges from the shadows drenched in reverb, slowly reciting words of great import, intoned over and over again as if in consecration of a ceremonial rite; the pace quickens to a Dervish whirl, until a smash of glass breaks the tension... and we begin again, with Koray’s guitar and trance-like recitation carrying us further and further back into time, each word fading farther and farther into ancestral echo-land where east is west and west is east... and we are all together. A densely textured psychedelic masterpiece; mesmerizing. Port of entry for those wishing to explore the world of Turkish rock. An essential album!
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