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Baldy's Sweetness: July 2012

Gateway to Distortion
Anadolu Pop-Rock
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Before NAFTA, free trade, and globalization, there was, the fuzz.

Ahh, yes, that scorching heat of overloaded guitar lines, emanating deep from within the waxy confines of a 45 RPM record, the hall bearer of the most ferocious of psych rock, the hash-coated shot heard round the world. While myriad continents and cultures churned out their fair share of imitative psych records, perhaps no other country fused this new energy, experimentation, and instrumentation with the traditions and culture of their own immaculately as the great nation of Turkey with its "Anadolu pop" (also known as Anatolian pop or rock).

The sound originated in Turkey's surf-influenced beat scene, as ignited by the arrival of the Shadows, and spurring bands like Mavi Isiklar and Cahit Oben. But it was with the embrace of traditional instruments like the saz and oud (stringed and lute-like with a bewitching twang) and reconfiguring classic Anatolian folk songs in a Western rock and funk framework that the scene took on a mind-expanding distinction all its own.

Still surprisingly modern sounding, with a heavy emphasis on galloping rhythm and reverbed vocals, melded with distinctive instrumentation aided and abetted by Turkey's geographic passageway to the Middle East, the gems are difficult to track down, usually only existing on 45s of varying sound quality and obscure Turkish compilations.

--Brion Paul (Waxidermy #30)



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