Ok, I think this will be the last post I’m doodling on 70s music for a while. I’ve mentioned Derdiyoklar before and now I wanna announce you that they will be having a gig in Istanbul next thursday.
Unlike other Turkish psychedelic stars of the time, Derdiyoklar made their name first and actually only among [...]

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After yesterday’s Swedish folk/psych revival, here’s a Turkish 70s reissue thanks to Andy Votel of Finders Keepers, one of the greatest cratediggers. There’s an ongoing underground trend for the last few years for cosmic stuff, forgotten European disco tracks, timeless Eurovision classics, eclectic traditional music etc. Thanks to this, Turkish funk/soul/folk scene has seen a [...]

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Oy! Back from what seems to be the last vacation of this summer. Let’s end the one week drought with one of the best albums of 2008, from the powerhouse sextet of the downtown scene (which I’ve been holding back since April).

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Another strange piece of work in tune with the Ghost Box aesthetics of being half-remembered/half-there is by the “The Guild of Funerary Violinists“. The guild founded in 1586 has protected these obscure classical solo violin pieces dating back from the late 17th to the early 20th century.

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I’ve downloaded 2 hard to rare albums of the 57 year old Indian saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath from Meshes of the Afternoon. Born in the Karnataka region in southern India, it took Gopalnath 20 years to master the Saxophone. I’ve personally never heard saxophone in Indian music, no wonder he’s the first musician to incorporate the [...]

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Here’s an astonishing reissue of exotic jazz from 1984. Still Around by the Rudy Smith Quartet is the first record Rudy Smith made under his own name after the Modern Sound Quartet. Now, if you’re wondering what steel pan music is, you should stop what you’re doing and watch the video mindboggling live video below. [...]

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For all you kids who don’t buy into the St. Valentine’s consumer festivities, here’s 2 love songs that you can enjoy. The first is by the mighty Baba Zula, who’s one of the handful of internationally notable artists coming out of Istanbul. It’s a shame I haven’t written about their new album, but let this [...]

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Just taking a break from stoner rock for a bit to announce the Yemenese oud master Abdulatif Yagoub is in town for a gig tonight. I’ve written about them a few times and I’ve also helped secure a show here, Yagoub is a true artist and it’d be a pleasure to watch him perform with Smadj & Mehdi from Duoud

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Here are some of the highlights that arrived at our inbox in the last month or so:
* New Thrill Parade’s noisy, piss’d and dark 3rd album is coming out on Wonder Quest soon. The sludgy beginning of the track made this an instant fave but the theatrical vocals (a la a gothed-up Tiger Lillies) sealed [...]

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Another day, another exquisite Staubgold release, this time by the Argentinian multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Franov. Khali is Franov’s 6th solo album although we only know 1 because his previous albums were released only in South America and Japan. He was brought to worldwide fame with his collaborations with singer/songwriter Juana Molina. Khali is a pretty dense [...]

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