Most tracks are from the album ‘Yarın Yoksa’.

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[–] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 child)

This feels like an interesting side effect to all the hipsters getting into vinyl back in the 00s-10s. They ran out of western vinyl and moved onto the ethnic stuff, which is leading to this resurgence of second/3rd generation immigrants being embraced by people in the host country to get access to turkish (or ethnic) culture.

It's nice for me to see more turkish faces and music forms being embraced online. It does feel like a repetition of Anadolu Rock , which has been hit and miss for me. Lots of turkish music I ran into was not quite in my wheelhouse growing up, since it seemed too slow or depressing, or poppy. I've grown more into our traditional and western fusion stuff later on, and it's been nice.

It also feels strange seeing microtonal stuff being embraced by different kinds of mainstream (ish) western musicians, outside of what I saw in the 00s with heavy fusion bands like Secret Chiefs 3, Screaming Headless Torsos or Consider the Source. Even Jute Gyte.

Bands like King Lizard and the Wizard Gizzard or Angine De Poitrine are treating it a lot more straightforward, alongside the more literal re-embrace like Altın Gün and this band. It feels like part of the more general Psychadelic rock and riff driven metal resurgence, wheras the bands before were more experimental and progressive to achieve new ideas; and a more general "pure experimental" approach used in classical music where they used microtonal music to make generally uncomfortable, unapproachable drones.

Anyway, obligatory microtonal music grid plug :

https://newdawnowl.itch.io/microtonal-grid

EDIT : If you enjoy this stuff, you should try some of the forebears; Erkin Koray, Cem Karaca, Bariş Manço, MFÖ, and Moğollar.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Thanks for the recommendations!

    Regarding the history of the phenomenon, TBF labels like Habibi Funk and Awesome Tapes from Africa have been around for a while, and they're releasing actual regional music, including that from decades ago. Habibi Funk is from the mid-2010s, but ATfA is twenty years old currently. There's also stuff like ‘Cambodian Rocks’ from 1996 and ‘Saigon Rock & Soul’ from 2010, both with songs from the sixties-seventies.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (5 children)

    Yildirim but the letter i isn't dotted?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yes, it's her name according to YouTube, her Bandcamp and Wikipedia.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Yıldırım means lightning.

    Şimşek means thunder.

    Or vice versa... my turkish isn't the best.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

    Seems you're correct about 'yıldırım', but according to both Wiktionary and DDG, 'şimşek' also means lightning, specifically in meteorology it's lightning between clouds. And apparently 'Şimşek' can be a name too, both first and last one.

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