Hava Narghile: Turkish Rock Music 1966-1975

Bellydancers looking for a change of pace from the traditional orchestral numbers should definitely check this out. Click on the sample of track #4 for the fastest, most surfer-psychedelic karshilama you can imagine. Many of these songs have traditional Turkish rhythms, and make a wonderful change from the ubiquitous techno-Arabic pop. The cover of the album says "vol. 1" and I hope there are many, many more to come!

A caveat: I am nowhere near conversent--yet, but I am a tender forty-- in world-psych from the 1960s and 70s, so I can't judge if the best Turkish music out there.But I love this CD. Putting fuzz guitars and rock beats to the mournful scales of Turkish music was the name of the game back when the Fabs and Airplane ruled the world, and people really WERE going to San Fran with flowers in their hair.If you like the sound of middle eastern music, this is packed with it, but also rocks with all the psych trimmings of the era. There is not a weak track here, and, aside from some muddy sound-this would be a perfect place to start if you like olives, houmus, and pita bread with your rock and roll.

I liked this Turkish psyche comp better than the Turkish "Love Peace & Poetry" comp. It's more interesting. Some of it sounds like Black Sabbath with Belly dance breaks. Some of it sounds like Selda's first album. Theres even a killer Moog sounding cut. The sound quality is lo-fi: it sounds like you're playing old vinyl - but I like that...I wish Dionysus would rock more intl. psyche comps. they have awesome taste.P.S. Im not sure I would recommend it to a belly dancer unless theyre a hippie.

Absolutely fantastic comp of 1967-75 Turkish psychedlic bellydance music. There's a few surf-style instros (sort of like Dick Dale's "Miserlou" in reverse), but the main emphasis is on hypnotic, droning psych versions of Middle Eastern traditional tunes, some with flower-power lyrics. Jam-packed with Turkish delight at 71 minutes. Caveat: mastered from rare vinyl 45s, some of which have obvious surface noise.

This is a nice collection of hard-to-find Turkish rock from the heyday of their psychedelic scene. If you like discovering weird adaptations of rock culture in 'foreign' climes, then this is a disc to check out! Also worth tracking down is the "26 Turkish Delights" compilation, which has an even harder acid-rock edge to it.

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