ANATOLIAN ROCK

Great minds tend to think in unison, no matter if the bodies they are contained into are physically distanced. It’s not a phenomenon or a science fact per se, it’s nothing more and nothing less than a witty observation made by people throughout history.

Music serves as a fairly often example of that. One might hear of psychedelic rock, a genre whose the most popular representatives are/were from the UK and the US, like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, etc. No surprise that there’s an entrenched belief that “psychedelic rock” equals to “bands from the US/UK”.

In fact, psychedelic rock hasn’t been only represented by the US/UK bands, its adepts can be found all around the globe; the tricky part is that non-US/UK musicians are a bit harder to find, but this adds to a pleasure of discovery, doesn’t it? 😏

Yesterday we were listening to a DJ set of Turkish psychedelic songs from the 1970s and that was just lit! That branch of the genre is also called “Anatolian rock” and contains dozens of names, as it turned out. I was nonplussed over how, on one hand, familiar those tunes sounded and, on the other hand, how independent of the Western legacy they were.

Once the DJ set finished, I let YouTube continue playing songs based on the set. In a couple of hours it led to my unhinged YT suggestions aligned with that oriental music, yay! 🤘

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But enough chit-chatting. To give you a taste of Anatolian rock, I want to share one piece of it with you.

The year is 1973, ladies and gentlemen. Open up your minds and let them get you through… To the other side 😉

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