Great 60s Turkish Instro (mostly) band. Silüetler is Turkish for Silhouettes (maybe a nod to the Shadows?) Great stuff!!

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Last edited: Jan 12, 2012 15:54:58

Definitely a very interesting band.

http://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/13139/

Last edited: Jan 12, 2012 18:39:51

Kind of a quirky meter, but I love that guitar sound.

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If you love that guitar sound, you should definitely check out some more obscure early '60s British instro stuff. It's very similar. Check out bands like Nero & the Gladiators, the Cougars, the Eagles, etc. Great comps to start off with would be Instro Beat and Phantom Guitars.

Anyway, I have this track, got it from somebody on CD before, and yeah the timing on it is really weird, must be some kind of a Turkish thing. Love when bands introduce their own local flavor into this music! It's a great track. It's just amazing how there seems to be a neverending well of great '60s instro tracks! This music was truly international from the very beginning.

Thanks, Ryan!

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Balkan/Anatolian (Byzantine/Ottoman Empire) time signatures are proverbially weird.

Welcome to sg101 MuZZy. I'm a huge fan of Erkin Koray! For anyone interested in some great Turkish Psychedlic music, I can't reccommend this comp. enough:

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Selda (2) – Bundan Sonra
Özdemir Erdoğan Ve Orkestrası – Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayım
Alpay – Kirpiklerin Ok Ok Eyle
Mazhar Ve Fuat – Sür Efem Atını
Erkin Koray – Yağmur
Ersen – Kara Yazı
Edip Akbayram – Yakar Inceden Inceden
Hardal – Bir Yağmur Masalı
Selda (2) – Ince Ince Bir Kar Yağar
Erol Büyükburç – Hop Dedik
Cem Karaca – Tatli Dillim
Üç Hürel – Ağlarsa Anam Ağlar
Barış Manço – Kirpiklerin Ok Ok Eyle
Moğollar – Haliçte Güneşin Batışı
Bülent Ortaçgil – Sen Varsın
Erkut Taçkın – Gitmek Düştü Bana

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Last edited: Jul 24, 2012 09:51:44

and lastly I just wanna say a few things about Turkish music. Actually Turkey is a nice country that has natural beauties, delicious foods but about art it's really hard to tell that turkey is a nice country.

if you want to find out turkish music, you should check out arab music that is a key element of influencing Turkish music (especially egyptian arab musicians like umm kulthum, farid el atrash). For example; a Umm Kulthum song named Enta Omri was used by Erkin Koray (back in the day he had plagiarised this song )then this song and Orhan Gencebay who is turkish arabesque music legend, became pioneers of Turkey's most common cheesy music genre named Arabesque music. In turkish music it's possible to see many plagiarism examples, in this respect (excluding original turkish folk music neset ertas, selda bagcan, erkan ogur and so on) it can be said that turkish music does not have any originality, actually as is turkish cinema (Turkish movies are poor as aspect of creativity (except limited personal successes like yilmaz güney,nuri bilge ceylan and a few more). Almost all Turkish films that were made up to today, have an unauthentic tongue between italian and egyptian cinema as well as in Turkish Cinema there is no any successful example for horror, thriller,science fiction, war, adventure and action genres (tho apart from a few movies, but I believe we made cool and successful drama and comedy films).

Turkish music has original and soulful vocals( for example; sezen aksu, ayla dikmen, aziz azmet and so on), also if you are a turk you like their meaningful lyrics but if so not it can be hard that you bear with any song because In turkish music usually the guitar quality is weak. For instance, (excluding some instrumental works) you cannot hear a nice toned guitar solo that is more than one minute long.I think its reason that most of Turkish listeners don't much like guitar, on the other side you hard find songs with original, strong main riffs (by the way Turkey's first guitar magazine appeared two years ago http://www.gitardergisi.com/Haber.aspx?ID=4 for reading link please use google translating here, sorry).

guys, I heard four greatest guitarists that belong to this music culture. And their fates became some tragic:

aydin cakus -lead guitarist of bunalimlar
he had to immigrate to usa, due to his albums could not reach commercial success.
mesut aytunca -lead guitarist of siluetler
because of being gay he was murdered by a maniac in 70s. During his life he was not a famous musician.
mustafa ozkent
many turks don't know existence of him, he never had no commercial success in Turkey if I am not mistaken he works now in a foundation as a guitar teacher.
yavuz cetin
he was one of turkey's three greatest blues and bluesrock guitarists (the others are Aydin Cakus and Sarp Keskiner) he made suicide because of economic and psychologic problems, ten years ago.

In turkey making real music is hard as it seen. Apart from them in Turkey there are some cool guitarists more, h.c. örter, awesome john/asım can gunduz and so on but strictly speaking, I don't like their styles and I don't think they are original, creative and notable musicians. But by listening to them on youtube you decide your opinion about those artists.

Beginning from 2000s in turkish music some cool examples came out like replikas(a sample), 657 (a sample), Baba Zula(a sample), kirika (a sample), hayvanlar alemi (a sample).

For Turkey, I would like you to know that I just talk to y'all about blues, rock'n'roll, surf and rock. Due to I am not into metal music, jazz music and electronic music, I can not tell y'all anything about its.

Also about turkish music, I want to express that we have quality oud musicians, a few of them:
Serif Muhittin Targan
cinucen tanrikorur
Münir Nurettin Beken
hakan emre ziyagil (he has interesting experimental works, a sample)

In fact; excluding some names (erkin koray,orhan gencebay, sezen aksu) most of turks did not listen to/don't listen to musicians that I mentioned here.

via the internet for many years I have been researched other middleast countries too and clearly I can tell y'all that only Texas music area is more deep and strong than all middle east geography "as guitar music culture" (Before I had posted a blogpost about Texas Psychedelic and I had written some Texan Musicians there. Even tho I don't say a whole lot of famous texan musicans like t-bone walker, buddy holly).

In short; in this geography I never been heard a emotional guitar like this
and if truth be told, unfortunately in this geography there is no a Eddie Angel, a Reverend Hank, a Longboard Ranch...

finally; some turkish melodies can be inspired for Surfers
Zafer Dilek - Yekte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBaIH3W-Pcc
Zafer Dilek - Fidayda instrumental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n18DrnszPOg
(saz instrumentalist zafer dilek has many works like these)
beybonlar - nenni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RUvH0Eh4Wg
mogollar - iklig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kYo8ryF20
some songs of old turkish movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8FcuukyXRo

Regards.
muZZy

muZZy

Last edited: Jul 30, 2012 11:15:38

WhorehayRFB wrote:

Played them on RFB 261...

http://www.radiofreebakersfield.com/shows/rfb261.mp3

yeah 36:30,
nice sharing thanks!
but above as I said, frankly, without saying any country, only texas music area is more strong than all middle east geography as guitar music culture.
by the way some unknown texas psych samples
Knights Bridge- Make Me Some Love
The Nomads - Be Nice
American Blues - Comin' Back Home

muZZy

Siluetler has a couple of tracks on the collection called "Guitar Mood 2" out on Repent. It's a really interesting comp.

Here's my review.
http://spidey.kfjc.org/?p=6426