Turkish psych-folk band Altin Gün has shared its grooving new single, “Su Siziyor.” The monitor heralds the upcoming launch of Altin Gün’s eagerly anticipated new album, Aşk, arriving through ATO Records this Friday, March 31.
The album has already been met with vital worldwide reward forward of its launch. MOJO was one of many first to weigh in with a four-star evaluation of their new situation. Exclaim! stated that Aşk, “captures a band more comfortable roasting in the sweaty, late-night heat of their notoriously fiery concerts, and is imbued with that invigorating immediacy,” whereas PopMatters praised the band for the best way their music “plays up the psychedelic aspects of the Anatolian scene with ecstatic relish.”
Rooted in antiquity but blazing with up to date relevance and vitality, Aşk consists of such lately launched tracks because the pulse-pounding “Rakiya Su Katamam” and the deeply atmospheric “Güzelligin On Para Etmez,” each of which can be found now in any respect DSPs and streaming companies.
An exuberant return to the 70s Anatolian folk-rock sound that characterised Altin Gün’s landmark first two albums, Aşk finds the band veering away from the digital, synth-drenched sound of its critically acclaimed 2021 albums, Âlem and Yol, to seize all of the infectious energy and urgency of the Amsterdam-based band’s famously propulsive stay performances.
Recorded utilizing classic tools and strategies, the album’s ten groundbreaking tracks all characterize visionary new readings of conventional Turkish folks tunes, revealing how these historic songs stay eternally resonant and ripe for reinterpretation.
Aşk additionally consists of Altin Gün’s dazzling reinvention of “Leylim Ley,” a basic tune of misplaced love and exile. Recently named as “Today’s Top Tune” by the influential KCRW, “Leylim 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,” “Leylim 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 in all places.