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Vay Dünya (Ali Ekber Çiçek cover) by Altın Gün b/w Cemalim

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Altin Gün – Brooklyn Steel – July 31, 2023

Altin Gün have been getting raves for their sixth studio album, Aşk, and with the Turkish-Dutch psychedelic band’s North American tour in support of the LP winding down, everyone in last night’s welcoming Brooklyn Steel crowd found out exactly why.

(Altin Gün play Royale in Boston on Saturday.)

Photos courtesy of Ken Grand-Pierre | www.kenamiphoto.com

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Altin Gün - Gece - new LP of Turkish psych from Dutch band

Following their hotly tipped 2018 debut album “On” – Altın Gün returns with an exhilarating second album. “Gece” firmly establishes the band as essential interpreters of the Anatolian rock and folk legacy and as a leading voice in the emergent global psych-rock scene. Explosive, funky and transcendent. The world is rarely what it seems. A quick glance doesn’t always reveal the full truth. To find that, you need to burrow deeper. Listen to Altın Gün, for example: they sound utterly Turkish, but only one of the Netherlands based band’s six members was actually born there. And while their new album, Gece, is absolutely electric, filled with funk-like grooves and explosive psychedelic textures, what they play - by their own estimation - is folk music. And what they create really is theirs. Altın Gün radically reimagine an entire tradition. The electric saz (a three-string Turkish lute) and voice of Erdinç Ecevit (who has Turkish roots) is urgent and immediately distinctive, while keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, and percussion power the surging rhythms and Merve Daşdemir (born and raised in Istanbul) sings with the mesmerizing power of a young Grace Slick. This isn’t music that seduces the listener: it demands attention. Ben Rider (guitar) Daniel Smienk (drums) Erdinç Ecevit (synths, saz, vocals) Gino Groenveld (percussion) Jasper Verhulst (electric bass) Merve Daşdemir (vocals, keys)licenseall rights reservedtagsTagsworld Amsterdam

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Süpürgesi Yoncadan by Altın Gün from the album Gece - Video: Sylvain Rusques & Simon Moreaux