KORAY ERKIN
2013. Gatefold, 180gr, insert with linernotes. Technically his 2nd lp after a collection of singles, this benchmark record from 1974 taught Istanbuls musicians & pop fans how to put Turkish folk songs from the 1..
BUNALIM
1993. Turkish band Bunalim (Turkish for "Depression") is a true legend: they were the absolute wildest and crudest band from the Anatolian Rock scene. Under the wing of Cem Karaca, who was their manager an..
KORAY ERKIN
2013. Master of the fuzz saz, Turkeys answer to Eric Clapton brings burly axe attacks to the snakey folk melodies of Anatolia. Long proven to cause just the brain-rot youre looking for, heres a Koray collection of t..
MEHRPOUYA
2013. Collected from several 45s & his one lp issued between 1968-76, please enjoy Pharaway Sounds' introduction to Iranian sitarist, the debonair Abbass Mehrpouya (1927-1993). Tehran's most exotic musician led ..
MEHRPOUYA
2013. Collected from several 45s & his one lp issued between 1968-76, please enjoy Pharaway Sounds' introduction to Iranian sitarist, the debonair Abbass Mehrpouya (1927-1993). Tehran's most exotic musician led ..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. Ohhh, those rolling 6/8 time signatures, wah-ed out guitars, throbbing bass lines & shimmery disco strings. After two sets of singles from the jet-setting 1970s Tehran pop scene, Pharaway Sounds brings you..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. Ohhh, those rolling 6/8 time signatures, wah-ed out guitars, throbbing bass lines & shimmery disco strings. After two sets of singles from the jet-setting 1970s Tehran pop scene, Pharaway Sounds brings you..
RAMESH
2013. In 1970's Teheran, the classically-trained Ramesh played the serious, quiet marquess against Googoosh's langorous pop princess. Both singers made the papers every time they changed their haircuts and appeared ..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. - nooshafarin - gole aftabgardoon,soli feat. Neli - tasvire yek fasl,shahrokh - koolehbaar,maziar - mahigir,shohreh - del,azita - baba heydar,zia - kermani,afshin - tarhe khoshbakhti,zia ..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. Khosh Amadid, friends, to this 4th volume in a series of compilations highlighting fiercely rare 45s from Tehran's pre-revolutionary golden age. Vivacious ladies with sassy Dorothy Hamill haircuts and skin-bea..
DERDIYOKLAR IKILISI
2013. Turkish Bar or Bengi folk dancing requires approximately 100 people to do it properly, and it helps if a lot of them are eating wedding cake. You put your arms around the shoulders of the people on either side..
DERDIYOKLAR IKILISI
2013. Turkish Bar or Bengi folk dancing requires approximately 100 people to do it properly, and it helps if a lot of them are eating wedding cake. You put your arms around the shoulders of the people on either side..
SHAHRAM
2013. You know how record nerds are. They'll gladly tell you that a dawdling Moldovian choir of 70 year old grandmothers is the next brick in your psychfunksplosion journey. But Shahram Shabpareh is the real thing. ..
SHAHRAM
2013. You know how record nerds are. Theyll gladly tell you that a dawdling Moldovian choir of 70 year old grandmothers is the next brick in your psychfunksplosion journey. But Shahram Shabpareh is the real thing. C..
ALPAY
2013. In Turkey, psychedelia wasn't just some fleeting fad. Fuzzed-out guitar shredding genuinely intersected with some of the goals of traditional folk and classical music. As a result, even former twist singers an..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. Groovy Tehran '70s pop singles swirl like the skirt of a dancing dervish!! With 5 volumes, this series is now the most complete investigation into Iranian singles ever issued. By now, you've probably developed..
VÝBEROVKA
2013. Groovy Tehran '70s pop singles swirl like the skirt of a dancing dervish!! With 5 volumes, this series is now the most complete investigation into Iranian singles ever issued. By now, you've probably developed..
KARACA CEM
2013. Sophisticated and passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca once led Istanbul's music fans through a period of violent political turmoil. Karaca reworked traditional folk lyrics with molten e..
KARACA CEM
2013. Sophisticated and passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca once led Istanbul's music fans through a period of violent political turmoil. Karaca reworked traditional folk lyrics with molten e..
KIZILOK FIKRET
2013. What if Bob Dylan was also a dentist, and then he hired Keith Emerson to play keyboards on songs he wrote for a play? It happened in Istanbul, friends. Turkish folk singer Fikret Kizilok started out balancing ..
SELDA
2014. There were female Turkish folk singers before Selda Bagkan, but none whose hot-blooded voice carried such righteously angry words and none who also accompanied themselves on guitar. Her first (s/t) album ha..
SELDA
2014. There were female Turkish folk singers before Selda Bagkan, but none whose hot-blooded voice carried such righteously angry words and none who also accompanied themselves on guitar. Her first (s/t) album had h..
SELDA
2014. Imagine if Julia Child had marched against Vietnam, stood on the steps of the Pentagon and placed a flower in a gun barrel. Selda Bagcan's later records have that same cross of easygoing motherly warmth and ri..
AKBAYRAM EDIP
2014. Edip Akbayram's a frail guy who spent his childhood unable to walk, but once he grew up he was on Istanbul TV in a whitey-fro and knee length colored robes. Akbayram's voice is big & open, and it took him ..
VAMPIRES
2014. Where does a band of Indian guys in East South Africa even play, and how on earth would they end up with fuzzy guitar riffs, wah-wah and funky drums? Riddles abound when you discover a platter like this one. D..
KARACA CEM
2014. Cem Karaca announces his intent to slay all enemies of Istanbul's leftist counter culture with stompin' prog keyboards. Sophisticated and passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca led Istanbu..
KARACA CEM
2014. Cem Karaca announces his intent to slay all enemies of Istanbul's leftist counter culture with stompin' prog keyboards. Sophisticated and passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca led Ista..
AKBAYRAM EDIP & DOSTLAR
2014. As Turkey's political factions turned more and more violent in the late 1970s, Buscemi-eyed Edip Akbayram was nearly beaten up by rioting audiences for daring to sing about rural points of view that were natur..
AKBAYRAM EDIP & DOSTLAR
2014. As Turkey's political factions turned more and more violent in the late 1970s, Buscemi-eyed Edip Akbayram was nearly beaten up by rioting audiences for daring to sing about rural points of view that were natur..
AKKOR KAMURAN
2015. Funky rhythm guitars, sweet organs, pumping bass, winging and buzzing synths, electric baglama, syrupy disco strings, and Akkor's little swallowed yodels... it's all here! These tracks from the great female Tu..