Description
A cult Selection explores what happened when Western music styles such as modal jazz, bossa nova,fusion & funk met turkish folk music,tone scales,instrumentation & rhythm structures.Turkish jazz,bossa,psych,fusion,soul & funk.Modern Turkish music history begins in 1923,when Turkey became a republic.Youth in Istanbul, Izmir & Ankara started tuning the radio to everything that was happening in London & rock arrived in the mid 50s.The first turkish rock music came from armybands under the leadership of officers,but when The Shadows emerged on the scene, the popularity of rock exploded, since Turkish people was used to hearing instrumental music.Western records by Black Sabbath,Ten Years After,Beatles,The Who,Jimmy Smith & James Brown got distribution in Istanbul & Ankara & the scene exploded during the years.The blending of the electric loud,arabic percussion,horn instruments & Turkish vocals with western jazz & funk makes the sound of this forgotten scene unique.
