Following their taste for adventure, the Breton musicians of Kazut de Tyr travel on oriental paths while remaining faithful to their musical heritage. Their music is made up of modalities, micro-tonalities, ancient scales, mingled together and echoing from here to there. For almost ten years, through encounters, collaborations and travels with artists from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, these musicians developed their particular sound. Now there is ‘Jorjuna’, named after a 10-beat rhythm common to Afghans, Armenians, Turks, Kurds, Arabs and Persians.

Istanbul has a deep, layered history. From its beginnings as a fishing village to one of the pillars of the Roman world. The final stop on the Silk Road. The centre of the Ottoman Empire as the Turks spread their huge net across the Middle East. Across the centuries the city drew in cultures and blended them. Growing up there, singer-songwriter Gaye Su Akyol breathed all that in every day, along with her family’s ancient roots in Anatolia. Those rich traditions combine to form part of the sound she’s developed on her album Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu (Hologram Empire), where sultry Turkish melodies twine around spiky, twanging guitars and insistent rhythms.

Conversations au sommet de la musique persane
Les cultures musicales prennent parfois un éclat inconnu loin de leur source nourricière. La rencontre à Marseille en 2016 entre Shadi Fathi et Bijan Chemirani offrit un écrin à des échanges raffinés sur les cimes de la musique persane.

Over the years Aynur has become one of the most well known musicians from Turkey and a representative for the Kurdish people. Her vocal style and her albums are praised not just by Turkish media but also by international media. She holds best selling musical albums in the genre of Kurdish folk.

Alaturka müziğinin soundu ile batı soundunu soft bir yorumla dinlemek isteyenler için ideal bir albüm “Peşindeyim”. Alaturka müziğine farklı bir tat sunan İncesaz 9 topluluğu tambur, kemençe ve gitar gibi klasik alaturka müziğinde aynı anda fazla rastlanmayan enstrümanlara yer vermiş. Albümde çok soft bir sound var. Ayrıca bir sound bütünlüğü var. On bir şarkının yer aldığı albümde ilk şarkı ile son şarkı arasında nerdeyse hiç farkı yok, düzenlemelerde bütünlük var. Soft bir sound içeren albümde Cengiz Onural bestelerinin yanı sıra bir tane de Haris Alexiou şarkısı var.

On is the 2018 album by Turkish psych folk band Altin Gün, who are from Amsterdam. This was released by Les Disques Bongo Joe (Bongo Joe Records).

Histoires de marins et de taulards, d’amours éplorées et de rêves au haschisch, d’œillades canailles et d’exils sans retours hantent le rébètiko, musique protéiforme apparue au début du siècle dernier dans les cafés souvent mal famés des ports de Grèce et de Turquie.

Out Of Nations is a dream for a future world where humanity comes before nationality. Lety, Jonas, Christian, Ayman, Charis, Fabian and Khalil connected on a musical level before realizing that each one of them carried a different passport. The band breathes new life into familiar genres by playing original, danceable world music rooted in pop, funk & jazz.

Laco Tayfa represents a new synthesis within the Turkish Roma (Gypsy) tradition. Under the leardership of clarinetist Husnu Senlendirici, Laco Tayfa brings Turkish regional folk music into dialogue with contemporary world music styles, fired by a driving Roma improvisational style known as "dogaclama". The name "Laco Tayfa" is a synthesis of Romani and Turkish: "laco" is a Romani world meaning "good"; "tayfa" is an Arabic transplant into Turkish connoting a combined work group, extended family and musical ensemble. "Laco Tayfa" suggests the energy of good musical work, forged out of firendships, shared visions and histories.

Kervanımız Kaldı is the 1997 album by Mustafa Yılmaz. Originally released on cassette by Şura Kasetçilik Ltd., this is now on compact disc.

Gülçin Ergül, 30 Ekim 1985’te İstanbul’da doğdu. Müziğe Pera Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde piyano eğitimi alarak başladı. Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Devlet Opera ve Çocuk Balesi Topluluğuna ve Çocuk Korosuna seçildi; Kuşadam ve Prens, Kül Kedisi, Fındıkkıran, Uyuyan Güzel, Kral ve Ben, Midas’ın Kulakları, Turandot gibi oyunlarda uzun yıllar kadrolu çocuk sanatçı olarak performans gösterdi.

The late '90s saw the first widespread interest in North America regarding various Asian psych scenes from the 1960s and beyond, with broad-ranging compilations soon being supplanted by even more specialized efforts. 2001's Hava Narghile, the first in a proposed series, looks specifically at Turkey's homegrown rock efforts from 1966 to 1975…

One is the 2018 album by Mahmut Orhan. Sony Music gave him the money to make this a reality.

Popular Western Armenian music uses instruments such as oud, qanun, keman, darbouka, clarinet, mandolin, tambourine, dumbeg and the duduk which is its characteristic. The songs are in several languages: Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Kurdish or other, often a mixture of these languages ​​such as spoken in the streets. The first recordings of Ottoman-Anatolian music played and sung by Armenians, Greeks, Arabs of the Empire, between 1909-1929, were thus made in the United States, then in Europe by companies like Colombia Records, Odeon, Archalouys or other. This precious collection brings together the songs and performances of the great Armenian artists of the Sayat Nova era in the heyday of a cultural and musical reconstruction in the diaspora. It testifies respectfully to the Armenian identity, from Anatolia to the New World.

Turkish Ladies. Female Singers from Turkey 1974 -1988
Sony Music Turkey and Ladies on Records present the very first compilation of Turkish female singers from 70s and 80s.
Official release date - 11th May 2018
Female singers embody everything that is the most spectacular and precious in music. Their style reflects what is glamorous, vivid, important. However, the female music does not only reflect what is visible and accepted. It also mirrors all neglected, undervalued dreams and expectations. Female singers are not only artists. They are messengers.