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• On their debut album On, the band show what happens when you open doors between Turkish folk songs which were passed on from generation to generation on the one hand and a dirty blend of funk rhythms, wah-wah guitars and analogue organs on the other. The Amsterdammers who come from various backgrounds (Turkish but also Indonesian and Dutch) comfortably create their work in the adventurous no-mans land that exists between these two worlds.
  Older generations of Turkish musicians have also experimented with opening doors between previously unconnected sonic worlds. During the seventies, artists such as Baris Mano, Selda Bacan and Erkin Koray practiced a way of songwriting and composing similar to Altin Gns. They took the music played during the festive occasions and serious formalities of their childhood, folk songs backed by a traditional Turkish string instrument called the saz. To this, they added the techniques and vibes of their times and the result then went on to become a distinct Turkish sound during 1972-1977 which even today still sounds rich, danceable and (alright then!) heavily mind bending.
  The Altin Gn band members first encountered this music in various ways: through their upbringing, via friends or after finding life changing compilations in record shops. Their own personal discoveries eventually led them to collectively open doors to crowds everywhere across Europe, from the Into the Great Wide Open festival in Netherlands to Istanbul, from Ghent to Geneva and from Ravenna back to Amsterdam; people all across Europe fell in love with Altin Gns unusual combination of familiar sounds.
  Mano, Bacan and Koray have all influenced Altin Gn, but their foremost inspiration is Neet Erta, a Turkish folk musician whose musical legacy is invaluable. Comparisons are almost impossible to make but imagine someone with the same impact and status as Bob Dylan or George Gerschwin and youre getting close. Many of the songs he wrote have become standards in Turkey, national treasures which are cherished up until the present day. Altin Gn retain the lyrical and thematic structure of Ertas songs, though they often alter their time signatures and add fuzzy bass sounds, sweltering organ sounds and raw saz riffs. Erta wrote the majority of the songs on the album even if these are hardly recognisable after all the work Altin Gn have done on them.
  The songs have universal themes such as love, death, desire and destiny. It is touching music that makes you want to move and massages your soul all at once. Music that sounds familiar but different. Music thats deeply emotional even for someone who doesnt speak a word of Turkish.
  Let Altin Gn open that door for you and get ready to indulge in their fresh and beautiful sound.
• Artist: Altn Gn Label: ATO Records Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Pop & Rock Style: Folk, Funk, Psychedelic Rock

• A1 Tatl Dile Gler Yze
  A2 KrsEhir'In GuLleri
  A3 Goca DuNya
  A4 Halkal SEker
  A5 Caney
  B1 SAd Olup GuLmedim
  B2 Cemalm
  B3 CIcEkler Ekiliyor
  B4 Kaymakamn Kzlar
  B5 SEker OgLan