Other music from other worlds (subtitle: 'listen to an idiot)
Dolana Ay Dolana
"...so just stay among yourselves and listen to Peruvian groups with bagpipes that only a handful of people listen to and that not even their relatives buy!" (quote)
HERE I AM! PRESENT! I, the pompous know-it-all, frequenter of the most foul-smelling and hidden niches, who “will never be part of a majority” as that guy said in that film... I invite you to listen to some of the most unlikely stuff that has come my way over the years. Just trust an idiot, spend 5 minutes on this instead of always hearing (reading, watching, eating, smelling...) the same things you already know how they are, otherwise, your brain will simply atrophy.
4) Mustafa Özkent
Ladies and gentlemen, Mustafa Özkent! Born in 1943, a true (more or less) underground legend not just in the posh Turkish pop circles. His first album "Gençlik İle Elele" from '73 is one of the most fun things you could be lucky enough to have come to your ears: super funky and slappy bass, scorching rhythm, that "Bontempi organ" sound, and a fuzz-drenched guitar veering into pentatonic scales and Arabic-sounding melodies. As if 3Mustaphas3 had composed the soundtrack for a 70s poliziottesco, as if Piero Piccioni or Piero Umiliani were born in Turkey, as if "Shaft" were set in Ankara...
In short, if this doesn't make your mouth water, then you are ready for a dancing evening with Minister Roccella...
"Turn it up loud to fill the room...with a music, also Turkish..."