Ali Kuru took a decision some years ago not to seek publicity, preferring instead to let his music speak for itself. Egzotik, his long awaited debut album, seems to have a fair few stories to tell. Smothered in evocative field recordings made around his home city of Istanbul, the album is notable for fusing exotic Persian instrumentation with grooves and sounds more readily associated with cosmic disco, krautrock, dub, Balearica and Detroit beatdown. On paper, it's an unusual combination that should sound forced or contrived. In reality, it's a brilliant example of an artist with a singular artistic vision achieving his goals. Put it this way: it's amongst the most inspired and enjoyable debut albums we've heard this year.

Turkey's Brutal Death Metal kings CENOTAPH are returning with their 6th studio album "Perverse Dehumanized Dysfuctions" 7 years after their 5th album "Putrescent Infectious Rabidity". Album has been recorded, mixed and mastered at DTH Studios in Moscow Russia. The sick artwork has been created by Toshihiro Egawa.

From 1975, this is Barış Manço's masterpiece. Stunning cosmic, psychedelic, groovy conceptual album with fantastic electronics and a strong Turkish folk flavor, as usual.
Tosun Yusuf Mehmet Barış Manço was born on 2nd January 1943 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey. He formed his first band at school (Kafadarlar (The Buddies)), but it was with his next band Harmoniler (The Harmonies), that he started recording cover versions. Upon leaving school he moved to Europe, forming different bands and recording songs in English, French and Turkish while touring a great deal.

Uzelli - one of the most important cassette label from Turkey, established in 1974, presents an exciting new story of Turkish Psychedelic Anadolu music, pushing the boundaries of time and space, stretching your perception of the genre to unexplored period of the 1980s. Diving into its huge archive, Uzelli presents the classics and previously undiscovered names of Turkish Psychedelic Anadolu music, showcasing less known but extremely exciting sub-genres.

World In Sound's first release from Turkey delivers pure and timeless oriental heavy psychedelic Prog Rock from Istanbul. Besides the usual instruments, they also use a Cello to create a truly unique and deep atmosphere, where the mystical vibe of "One Thousand and One Nights" meets Pink Floyd and King Crimson. Nine long epics reflect a wide and unpredictable, well-balanced spectrum of arrangements, rhythms, melodies, and climax. With no doubt these lads continue the great 1970s Turkish psychedelic rock tradition of Erkin Koray, Mogollar or Baris Manco.

Fazil Say's new album "New Songs" took place on the shelves with the Ada Music label. Say, "New Songs" album Edip Cansever, Turgut Uyar, Cemal Süreyya, giving place to Nazim Hikmet and Omar Khayyam's poetry.

This collection highlights various forms of traditional Turkish music. Largely due to Turkeys situation at the crossroads of Europe, North Africa, The Middle East and Central Asia, its traditional music has influenced and been influenced by numerous cultures throughout the ages. Turkeys strong musical traditions are wide indeed, ranging from its folk and classical repertoire to mosque music and Sufi, among others. Perhaps most famously, the spectacular Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi order have brought worldwide attention to Turkish Sufi since the 1970s when they began to tour outside of Turkey.

Rebétika music is haunted with stories of sailors and convicts, tearful love affairs and hashish dreams. This music style came about in the early 20th century in the oft-infamous cafes of Greek and Turkish port towns. It is a fascinating repertoire, falling somewhere between sentimental song, social protest, and Eastern poetry. On this new album, Greek singer María Símoglou showcases 13 rebétika pieces that she especially cherishes.

Christina Pluhar and l'Arpeggiata invite you on a musical cruise that will take you from Portugal to Turkey, following the coasts of Spain, Catalonia, Greece, and Italy, caressed by the rocking of the waves and the captivating dialogue between traditional plucked instruments of the Mediterranean region the qanun, saz, Greek lyre and lavta, the oud and Portuguese guitar and the Baroque strings of l'Arpeggiata. Mediterraneo is truly a musical exploration of the Mediterranean Sea. The recording features the fabulous voices of Mísia, Nuria Rial, Vincenzo Capezzuto, Raquel Andueza and Aikaterini Papadopoulou who perform traditional tarantellas, sung in Greek. These folk pieces were a custom in the Baroque era in the Greek-Albanian villages of Calabria. Join Christina Pluhar on this unique musical odyssey. The deluxe casebound edition of Mediterraneo includes a bonus DVD featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes recording sessions of Are mou Rindineddha, Sem saber, Hasapiko, and Tres sirenas.

PRO PACEM is a new CD-Book project that makes a plea for a world without war or terrorism and for total nuclear disarmament. It presents a sound mosaic that takes the form of a living dialogue of spiritually expressive vocal and instrumental music from a variety of repertoires from East (Armenia, Turkey, Sepharad, India, Israel and China) and West (Greece, Spain, England, Portugal, Italy, Estonia and Belgium).

Although the classical traditions of the Ottoman world were not notated, that doesn't mean there is no evidence as to how it sounded in past eras. In addition to verbal description and iconography, Istanbul was visited (and even lived in) by various musically trained Europeans. Jordi Savall and his Hespèrion XXI ensemble here rely on writings of a Moldavian prince, Dimitrie Cantemir, as well as traditional pieces from various strands in the complex cultural mosaic that has made up the city of Istanbul over the centuries.

Bosporus Bridges: A Wide Selection Of Turkish Jazz And Funk 1969-1978 is a 2005 compilation CD. This album was released by Twimo Records.

Sufism, an ancient muslim mystical tradition, aims to practice Islam in all its purity and has been perpetrated by Dervish brotherhoods. Here is the strange liturgy of the Whirling Dervishes during which voices ponctuated by the ney, the kemanche, the kanun and the bendir, lead us towards the discovery of an unexpected world where joy is born of incantation; thus exalted by music and dance, the Dervish rises bove the things of this earth.

“This is a typical Alia Vox Hesperion release: sumptuously packaged, richly illustrated, and supported by edifying scholarly notes about the music and its historical context. It's recorded in clear yet atmospheric sound…In addition to the late Montserrat Figueras, there is wonderful singing by the Israeli Lior Elmaleh ad the Turk Gursoy Dincer.” ~BBC Music Magazine

Maxi Dance Sensation is another great compilation of current dance tracks that can easily become classics 90's. Enjoy!