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| Record Release "Saz Beat. Turkish Rock, Funk, and Psychedelic Music of the 1960s and 1970s" & Lecture on "Anatolian Rock – Phenomena of Hybridization" by Holger Lund |
// Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
// Time: 20.00
From the curator of “Bosporus Bridges Vol. 2,” now comes the compilation “Saz Beat” on Corvo Records’ sublabel Global Pop First Wave. This new selection of tracks explores the sounds of Turkey from when the country was hit by the first wave of global pop in the 1960s. Unlike elsewhere, Anglo-American pop did not lead to a copy culture, but to an extraordinary blend of an electrified Western style with Turkish elements in composition, language, and instrumentation.
The compilation presents a wide mix of music for dancing and listening, ranging from hard rock to soft folk and from disco funk to muezzin psychedelic. It contains two incredible tunes by Grazia, “the only synth-driven, Israeli-Turkish, break-heavy, psychedelic-disco-funk record by a child nightclub singer” (Andy Votel). Also featured are American-Turkish beat rock by Devil’s Anvil, otherworldly sounds by Gülsüm Kamu and Yabancılar, hiphop-sample-friendly beats by Özdemir Erdoğan and Zafer Dilek, and heavy groove folk by Meral Atakök and Zerrin Zeren.
http://corvorecords.de/releases/cgpfw001.html
Anatolian Rock – Phenomena of Hybridization
Lecture by Holger Lund
Turkish rock, funk and pop music of the 1960s and 1970s is very little known outside Turkey, though its special aesthetic is worth to be considered. It is sung mainly in Turkish, using traditional musical structures but played with an electrified and electronic instrument setting that combines Western pop-rock instruments with old Turkish ones. Due to the media technology used and their interest in following traditions and doing experiments at the same time, Turkish musicians and producers built up extraordinary hybrids blending western and oriental cultures. In my lecture I will try to analyse this approach including its cultural and political dimensions.
Anatolian rock – what does it sound like? Why does it sound the way it sounds? How has it started and how can this music be contextualized? These are some simple questions I try to follow in my lecture.
The term “Anatolian Rock” was invented by Turkish musicians in the late 1960s as a brand to promote their music. It is a very general term, used to describe music derived from both traditional folk music and pop-rock music in a wider sense. What is special about Anatolian Rock is its capacity of building hybrids, covering the whole range from nearly traditional Turkish music, you will not locate elsewhere than Turkey, to a sort of nearly international rock music, which could take place anywhere. This capacity of hybridization has to do with the republican nation building politics of 1923 related to Turkish music, making it so adaptable for “westernization”.
Holger Lund is a professor for media design at the DHBW Ravensburg and works on Turkish pop-rock music as a compiler (Bosporus Brigdes Vol.2 and Saz Beat), scientificallly (The aesthetics of imperfection and hybridization) and as a DJ (Global Pop First Wave).
Corvo Records was founded in 2010 in Berlin. The label is releasing experimental turntable music, free improvisation, sound art, and electro-acoustic compositions on vinyl. The releases are striking for their sound-object like character, as well as for a high quality standard in mixing and packaging. The visual and haptic aspects of Corvo Records products are very important and for getting the best result, particular techniques and materials are used.
A cooperation between General Public, fluctuating images, and Corvo Records.
www.fluctuating-images.de
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