Aşk - Altin Gün (2023)
Dutch bassist Jasper Verhulst took a liking to the sound of 70s Turkish psych music and formed a funky part-Turkish, part-European band around an updated version of the sound.
While the band’s previous records were heavy on studio effects, programmed drums, and synths, this was intended to be a more back-to-basics record of musicians live in the room. Whether that makes it better than, say, the also pretty excellent Yol is up to the listenener.
The oddball texture you hear here is an electric saz, a wonderful example of east-meets-west music tech.
RIYL
While it might not sound too similar on the surface, the recently-upwritten Islandman record shares a lot of the same Turkish psych source code. That one is much more processed through the world of modern electronic music, while Altin Gün keep it more organic.
While I haven’t listened to it much, this year’s Garip also sounds pretty excellent.
