+81 sent me:
SELDA - s/t
As I had some connection problems when the link was sent, I felt that the best thing to do in the mean time is to search who this "Selda" is, or what's her album about.
So I went to Selda's LastFM page, and here's what I found:
"turkish wonder, heroine of the anatolian invasion. a powerful voice and charged lyrics gave her the moniker of “the joan baez of turkey,” which underestimates her drastically.
check the b-music/finders keepers reissue of her self titled 70s album for a mind blowing explosion of psychedelic radical folk pop. selda is a revelatory and groovy in new ways experience for your earhole."
So when I got the album, I was preparing myself to hear some Psychedelic sounds. I plugged the player in the car, to listen to the album on my way to Uni, and went on the road. I don't think I can say that it's a bad album, but instead of Psychedelia, I was hearing the music we put in marriages, or any event we can put folkloric music in (which is everywhere in here).
I live in a country that was occupied by the Ottoman Empire (Now Turkey) for more than 4 centuries (1514-1915), so I think we soaked up every Turkish thing 'soakable', which includes Folk Music. So I think I can say, without a doubt, that this was no psychedelic music, it was just middle eastern folk music. I'll give them the credit of using an electric guitar with some added distortion at times, but that was at the beginning of the song. So at the beginning of the song that even has a typical folkloric melody, for only 5 seconds, we listen an electric guitar, and some weird effects repeated every 5 minutes. And when I say a folkloric melody, I mean a melody made and remade for more than 5000 times, so I guess I couldn't enjoy the album, because it was all too familiar.
Now what I don't understand is, why everything that has an oriental touch becomes instantly psychedelic. I think the Orientalism in the Psychedelic Rock is what pulled me to it, but how can our folk be your prog, I'm sure there should be more to it.
I'm sorry I couldn't like the album, but when it gets to middle-eastern folk, I've heard much better stuff cz I do live here. I did like some tracks, but the 'Psychedelic' tag did annoy me. So if you need any recommendations on some good folk, I guess I can find some names.
**Examples of what I was talking about earlier, can be 'Misserlou', which is now considered 'Surf music' when it is simply a middle-eastern folkloric melody played on an electric guitar with added speed. Or 'Paint it Black', which is based on a middle-eastern rhythm.