Browse by Artist: SELDA

Artist:	SELDA
Title:	Selda
Label:	B-MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BMS 004CD

2006 release. "The music you are about to hear defies categorization. But for all intents and multi-purposes, this record is a folk album. Embodying all the aesthetic watermarks of a private press country LP, Selda's debut long player from 1976 has masqueraded as lamb dressed as mutton, throwing many a discerning wolf from the gourmet scent. Behold! Space age, Anatolian, electronic, progressive-protest, psych-folk-funk-rock from the Middle East. All of the above ingredients are presented immaculately with up-most authenticity and conviction to create a delectable hybrid concoction which has never been replicated or equalled in the three mutant decades since its recording."

Artist:	SELDA
Title:	Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi
Label:	WORLD PSYCHEDELIA (WORLD'S LEADING TERRORIST STATE)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	WPC6 8492

"It's no wonder that psychedelic crate-diggers, and self-proclaimed vinyl vultures Andy Votel and Dominic Thomas of Finders Keepers both have tracks by Selda included on their list of favorites: her take on Anatolian music is unique. This reissue features the second album (released in 1975) by this much beloved female Turkish protest singer, notorious for her clashes with Turkish governments; Selda and her acoustic guitar are accompanied here by a psychedelic rock band which includes members of Mogollar, and the result is is one of the best records we've heard from Turkey, for it includes 'Utan,Utan' (traditional folk sounds spiced with fuzz guitar) and 'Karaoglan'; a track like 'Askerin Türküsü' is interesting for its medieval arrangements, and 'Maden Dagi' is sung with great emotion. This is an album which was forbidden in Turkey, which means it has been hard to find since its release; includes eight early singles as bonus tracks, on which hearing Selda sing is as exhilarating an experience as the first time hearing Les Mysteres de Voix Bulgares or the manic warble of Liz Fraser. Notes in English give some background on Selda and the Anatolian rock sound; nice booklet also includes lyrics."

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