The long forgotten story of Turkish psychedelic music in the twentieth century, told in relation to the social, political and cultural climate of the time.

In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu PopBut that was just the beginning. Through the second half of that turbulent decade, Turkish rock warped and transformed, striking out into wilder and stranger territory – fuelled by the psychedelic revolution and played out over a backdrop of cultural, social and political turmoil. 

The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered by Western crate-diggersIt’s a tale of larger-than-life musical pioneers with raging political passions and visionary ideas ripe for rediscovery.


Format Häftad Omfång 350 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Watkins Media Limited Utgivningsdatum 2018-03-15 ISBN 9781912248056