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.

Their second CD "Hurel Arsivi", 1976, is their most important work (selections from singles) of the group, amazing rhytms, incredible guitar playing, some psych sounds and vocals. A masterpiece of Turkish ethno-psychedelic delight, recorded between 1970 and 1975 by the three very talented Hur El brothers; has the heavy hashish sound fuzz guitar, empassioned vocals and Eastern percussion that makes Turkish psych so savoury to the rest of the world; very possibly as good as anything recorded by countryman Erkin Koray.

Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa. She married Ali Dinçer, a leading Turkish politician, also born in Bulgaria and former mayor of Ankara in 1993. Since then she has lived in Turkey.

She sings in different projects all over the world, in different styles from traditional music to free improvisation.
As one of the most active figures of Istanbul free improvisation scene since 2009, she performs with many musicians from Turkey and abroad.

The first album by trippy Turkish trio 3 Hür-El– a great blend of Eastern sounds and western styles – all coming together with a slightly progressive feel! The instrumentation often includes some heavy basslines underneath lighter lines on acoustic strings – a blend of folksy and modern that's topped by passionate vocals and often underscored by some great heavy percussion – all in a style that's a bit otherworldly, but oddly quite compelling!

Apolas Lermi was born and raised in Trabzon, located in a northern region of Turkey, known as "Blacksea".

Turkish rock is weird. Whether it's the psychedelic wanderings of Erkin Koray or the wild-haired boogie of Bunalim, the folks in Istanbul just have their own unique approach to rockin'. Hardal, basically a footnote in Turkish rock history, have now had their debut album reissued by the indefatigable Shadoks label, and it's a worthy nugget of late-'70s prog.