Well, the second Anatolian Pop Night in Istanbul is about to take place on Wednesday. The debut concert with Derdiyoklar was extremely well received and I hope/think it will be no less for Osman İşmen and his Orchestra. He’s an acclaimed composer of old Turkish movie soundtracks and has also been an arranger for better known personalities like Zeki Müren, Bülent Ersoy, Nükhet Duru, Sezen Aksu, Nilüfer and even İbrahim Tatlıses. In the late 70’s he’s composed 4 albums of discofied Turkish songs and later on drifted into more jazzy ways with his “Eastern Jazz” albums. If you wanna tune into the Anatolian Pop revivalism, make sure you wear your fez and catch him at Babylon.