It doesn’t take much to make traditional music rock. Just unearth your culture’s native tunes and shock them with a blast of electricity. Now the duo known as Painted On Water are pulling the same ...

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek perform at Sleeping Village Credit: Philomena Wolflingseder Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek are an Anatolian psych-pop band with a global point of view. Formed in 2014, they ...

Anatolian rock music, a fusion of Western influence and distinctive Anatolian motifs, has been captivating people of all ages since the 1960s. For about six decades, iconic tracks like "Sevgilim" (My ...

ISTANBUL - Turkey will send a message of peace and friendship to the Armenian capital of Yerevan through the common traditions of melody and dance. Armenia will welcome its first Turkish soloist in ...

Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis have a sound they coin “danceable dissent”. New single ‘Bogotà’ is a hypnotic protest anthem, fusing Anatolian psych with the communal ...

Turquoise, an large improv group led by Turkish/Danish drummer Atilla Engin, takes the idea of world music and applies it in a much broader sense than the usual. First and foremost on this record, of ...

Neşet Ertaş was a legendary Turkish folk musician, singer, and poet who was known for his deep, emotional songs that captured the spirit of Anatolian folk music. His music was rooted in the Bozlak ...

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