#turkish band

[jesdamons]

kerem ozyegen mor ve otesi

[limoncats]

i just had to doodle @kanangul's Turkish folk Miku design because she's beautiful ;; teşekkuler kanangul muhteşem bu 🙏🙏

[srlgemstone]

Turkish Agate Pair

[prismasartworks]

Meet Yildiz, the celestial performer at Mount Rageous!

Known for her melodic voice and generous personality, this gal works really hard for her performances, unlike a certain duo....

However, she actually doesn't care about the wealth, as long as music makes her happy.

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As you can see, I made a Mount Rageous OC, based on Turkish Pop. As such, her color palette is mostly white and red, with some blues mixed in. Her eyes and eye makeup are based on a Nazar amulet.

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Also this is her theme;

[singles-bar]

[whywoulditho]

i love how life instantly gets better when you discover a new band. so many new songs, untouched gems waiting to be explored. all these options on my finger tips. where have you been all this time. how have i lived till now without knowing you exist in the same world i do.

[drondskaath]

Engulfed | Unearthly Litanies of Despair | 2024

Turkish Death Metal

Artwork by Morket Art

[burlveneer-music]

MEHMET ALI SANLIKOL & WHATSNEXT? featuring Anat Cohen, Antonio Sanchez and Miguel Zenón - TURKISH HIPSTER: Tales from Swing to Psychedelic

In this jazz orchestra album you will hear Brazilian Capoeira meet Turkish folk and a 70s Turkish psychedelic Rock classic run back to back with American Hip hop. While such music may be more accessible to the general listener, I would also like to point out that, as far as I know, this is the first time Capoeira and Turkish folk grooves blend in order to create an entirely new piece of music... Similarly, this album includes the first ever example of the saxophone and the trumpet sections within a jazz orchestra playing precise microtonal flavors of classical Ottoman/Turkish music through the use of alternate fingerings and various techniques I have perfected over several decades. Furthermore, what is most significant here is that none of the players are Turkish, but rather all American musicians... Perhaps it is fair to say that this album presents innovative original music written for jazz orchestra that has entry points for a wide audience due to its stylistic variety and accessibility. However, that variety can also be challenging: I ask the listener to go from Capoeira to Sufi influences, and from Swing to classical Ottoman/Turkish music and more!... All music composed and arranged by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (Mehteran publishing, ASCAP) except “Estarabim” composed by Erkin Koray and arranged by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol. The Boston Beat – spoken word rap by Raydar Ellis Estarabim – lyrics by Erkin Koray The Call “A Touch of Eternity” – lyrics by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol

[nugothrhythms]

Music video to "Sleep Paralysis" by Turkish-now-based-in-Stockholm, Sweden hauntwave one-woman-act Aux Animaux off of 2023 album Body Horror

[scarefox]

FAUN feat. Fatma Turgut - Umay (Official Video)

[elymaiis]

Malt — Deprem

[kyreniacommentator]

Duman excitement smoldered in Girne Amphitheatre

[just-miru]

1. Șebnem Ferah (alternative rock - hard rock - alternative metal - symphonic metal - pop rock | turkish)

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later added:

[hexenmond]

gushing about Friday's Engin concert

So I was on the fence about going to this concert for weeks, but long story short, I'm SO GLAD I WENT! 😍

Engin are a German-Turkish band hailing from Mannheim, which isn't very far from where I live, and on Friday they were playing in Reutlingen, which REALLY isn't far. And they were freakin' fantastic! This video snippet is the solo part of "Stillgelegte Tränen" (roughly translatable as "discontinued tears"), and I hope it shows at least a little just what a wonderful live act they are.

So yeah, I came home from that experience with the clear intention to really go out to concerts more (and maybe the theatre) from now on. I hadn't been in ages, and that's a mistake! It was so lovely to spend some two hours dancing and swaying, watching and listening to three fabulous musicians really rock it, and also I was super proud whenever I caught a Turkish word I understood.

Something that struck me at the beginning when the drums started playing – I don't think I've ever heard a drumset sound so, hm, musical. I mean drums usually file as percussion, and their sound to me is closer in range to "noise" than to "melody". But the sound of these drums sure had a sort of full-bodied, richly tonal quality that I found amazing.

In contrast, the bass started out more hard and metallic (the bassist was playing with a pick most of the time) – however, both sounds changed during the concert and during later songs the bass was much more mellow (also played without a pick for a bit). I'm not sure how much of that was influenced by the sound technician, but I believe it entirely possible that these three fabulous musicians just have that range of tone.

Oh and the lyrics! Much of Engin's original songs are in German, but they did play a lot of Turkish songs as well, and I don't know how many of those were traditional or covers and how many were their own. I did love all of them and the singer gave a little context for many of the songs which was lovely, and like I said, I was so proud of myself whenever I understood a word. And I should add that I didn't understand half of the lyrics in German either! (too fast, too much music going on, lyrics too out of context to catch it all) Their song lyrics generally lean towards poetry, which I personally love but isn't always easy to understand when you hear it for the first time.

There was one song that was about growing up in between between languages, between cultures, between homes, something I can relate to a bit because of my half English heritage (I had a few teenage years where I was totally out of sorts and wishing I'd grown up on the British isles instead of Germany). It's not entirely the same of course. My ear caught four words – "blond genug für Sympathie" ("blond enough for sympathy"), and I thought, oh wow. White passing privilege and on the flip side, never being fully at home and welcome anywhere, in four simple words.

Anyway! You know, I woke up on Saturday morning at around half past four, my mind racing with the whole experience and I lay awake thinking about what I was going to write until about six, when I fell asleep again 😄 and now it's Sunday evening and my brain has shut up a little. But I'm still writing this because a) I want the world to know about this wonderful band, and b) I want to get back into the practice of writing regularly. I have this five part, long form fanfiction that I WILL finish!

So here's some links for all of you who are interested in super danceable tunes, multicultural music and lyrics, and/or absolutely rocking sound:

Engin's website (in German only, sorry, but you can just click on the videos)

my absolute favourite song in German: Echt ("genuine")

my absolute favourite song in Turkish: Gurbet ("foreign place", very melancholic)

[saisons-en-enfer]

Çagla Güleray of Ductape

By Eddie Skywalker

[blue-eyed-giant]

bros i think telepathy between siblings is real