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The ninth volume of this long-running World Psychedelic Music series focuses on the surprisingly fertile Turkish Psych scene. It mostly sounds like the type of music you would hope to hear drunkenly wandering into a falafel restaurant at 3 A.M. - middle eastern guitar motifs, weird exotic instruments like the saz, and passionately sung foreign lyrics that could be about anything. With most of the songs coming form the 1970s there is a bit of a progressive rock bent to music, but the fact that it sounds so damn exotic keep it from being grating, like Yes or ELP.
QDK Media does their usual good job in cherry-picking the best songs from what must be very rare singles and albums, and in the comprehensive liner notes that give an excellent history of Turkish rock music, as well as the story behind each of the 15 bands on the album. I could break it down on a track-by-track level and talk about the intricacies of "Sur Efem Atini" by Mazhar ve Fuat, and how different that song is from "Gitmek Dustu Bana" by Erkut Tackin but that would be missing the point since this is meant to be taken as a whole. Hookah sold separately.
DAVID MANSDORF
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