Turkish psych-folk innovators Altin Gün have introduced their eagerly anticipated new album, Aşk, arriving by way of ATO Records on Friday, March 10.
An exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterised Altin Gün’s landmark first two albums, Aşk is heralded by the premiere of the pulse-pounding new single, “Rakıya Su Katamam.” An area rock-powered tackle the folks normal composed by Turkish author/theologian Mustafa Öztürk, the monitor is joined by an equally kaleidoscopic official music video.
The band additionally introduced an in depth run of North American tour dates, which is able to discover them acting at among the largest and most celebrated venues up to now.
Aşk finds Altin Gün veering away from the digital, synth-drenched sound of their critically acclaimed 2021 albums, Âlem and Yol, to seize all of the infectious energy and urgency of the Amsterdam-based band’s famously propulsive reside performances. Recorded utilizing classic tools and methods, the album’s ten groundbreaking tracks all symbolize visionary new readings of conventional Turkish people tunes, revealing how these historical songs stay eternally resonant and ripe for reinterpretation.
“These songs have been covered so many times, always,” says vocalist/keyboardist Merve Dasdemir. “But not really in psychedelic pop versions,” provides bassist Jasper Verhulst. “It’s definitely connecting more with a live sound – almost like a live album. We, as a band, just going into a rehearsal space together and creating music together instead of demoing at home.”
Rooted in antiquity but blazing with modern relevance and vitality, Aşk additionally contains Altin Gün’s dazzling reinvention of “Lelim Ley,” a basic track of misplaced love and exile. Recently named as “Today’s Top Tune” by the influential KCRW, “Lelim Ley” options music composed by famend Turkish musician, writer, poet, and politician Zülfü Livaneli and lyrics written by the late Turkish novelist, short-story author, poet, and journalist Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948). Taken from Ali’s 1937 brief story, “Ses,” “Lelim Ley” was joined by music composed by Livaneli in 1975 and has since been embraced as probably the most well-known and beloved songs amongst Turkish individuals all over the place.