Cem Karaca Vinyl, CD & Tape 6 Items

Sophisticated & passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca once led Istanbul’s music fans through a period of violent political turmoil. Karaca reworked traditional folk lyrics with molten electric bass lines that played up both a poet’s broiling righteousness and also his listeners’ common ground with their elders in Turkey’s history. This is the second album from Karaca, released in 1974, reissued for the first time in Picture Disc with remastered sound. It leads the listener through Karaca’s own musical history, skipping across various collaborations and bands up to his then-current project Dervisan. Can throbbing Anatolian guitars take on the assassins of the Grey Wolves? Imagine a hairy pied piper with R Kelly’s flair for drama, wailing into a microphone over an electric baglama, and you’re ready to enter the bohemian world of Papa Cem.

Picture Disc Edition. Sophisticated & passionate, with flamboyant taste in sunglasses, Cem Karaca led Istanbul's music fans through a period of violent political turmoil. Karaca reworked traditional folk lyrics with molten electric bass lines that played up both a poet's broiling righteousness and also his listeners' common ground with their elders in Turkey's history.

1975's 'Nem Kaldi' gathers more 60s-70s singles that lead the listener through Karaca's own musical history, skipping across various collaborations. Sink deeper into the intrigue both musical & otherwise as fractious personnel changes & real-life assassins multiply, yet the double-time drums & badass synthesizer schwings pound on.

Türküola proudly presents a brand new Cem Karaca album where most of the songs made their premieres inside this release. From the original masters of Türküola, we will be hearing Apaşlar, Ferdy Klein and even Dervişan era of Cem Karaca with English lyrics. As the opening track, we hear “Mutlaka Yavrum” which he recorded with Dervişan in 1975 which is really a political piece also with English lyrics. Karaca tells the stories of the children in refugee camps because of the Palestine and Israel conflict. The English versions of “Kendim Ettim Kendim Buldum”, “Emmioğlu”, “Muhtar” and “Baba” have the same playback with their Turkish versions but this time directly and faithfully transferred from their original masters. These tracks were recorded with Ferdy Klein Orchestra in 1970. The Turkish versions of these songs were previously released but the English ones were in the treasure box till now. “Tears”(Resimdeki Gözyaşları), “No No No” (Emrah 1970), “Why” (Oy Babo) and “Istanbul” (Istanbul’u Dinliyorum) are the recordings of Apaşlar with the support of Ferdy Klein Orchestra dated 1968 and the English versions were also released in the same era as two separate singles. In this album, we also hear instrumental tracks played by Apaşlar with the support of Ferdy Klein Orchestra namely “Memories of Marmara” (Emrah 1970) where vocal parts are replaced with strings, “Laila’s Dream” (Resimdeki Gözyaşalrı-Tears) where vocal parts are given with brass and solo sax, “Oy Bana Bana” where vocal parts are replaced with electric guitar and sax. These three songs were previously released in the LP of The Bosporus Sound Orchestra named “Laila’s Dream” which had been released by United Artists, Liberty, and Türkofon before. The Bosporus Sound Orchestra was, of course, Ferdy Klein’s pseudonym for his orchestra. Thanks to Türküola for making these legendary recordings meet its collectors and Anatolian Pop fans via faithfully transferred master recordings.

Fifth album by the ANATOLIAN ROCK legend, originally released in 1977. Progressive pop / rock sound including the 11 minute epic, Moog-laden “Sevdan Beni”. Original artwork in gatefold sleeve

Cem Karaca & Kardaşlar You may have seen a Kardaşlar &Apaşlar compilation LP or a Cem Karaca Lp with some Kardaşlar tracks or even you may have listened to a theatre score of CK & Kardaşlar; but it’s for sure that you haven’t seen or heard a Cem Karaca & Kardaşlar LP fully dedicated to the band’s whole career. This was a dream for every psychedelic rock collector to reveal such an LP but it was Türküola’s success to make such an LP. This LP with the gorgeous cover artwork displays the two significant line ups of the band. The front cover displays the band’s first fab four line up consisted of Ünol Büyükgönenç (guitar, saz), Seyhan Karabay (bass, electric ıklığ), Alex Wiska (guitar, bass), Hüseyin Sultanoğlu (drums) while the back cover displays Ünol, Seyhan, Fehiman Uğurdemir (guitar, bass), Cengiz Teoman (drums). The band has a special and unique soundscape created with solid bass, tom drums and electric iklig that can even be called a mystical psychedelia. You can hear gigantic double guitar fuzz solos in “Tatlı Dillim”, groovy beats in “Demedim mi” and mind blowing solid basses in “Kara Üzüm” . Enjoy a band’s whole career with the majestic and gigantic rock singer Cem Karaca with Türküola Quality !!

Another Masterpiece of turkish Psych-Rock by the great Cem Karaca unearthed by Türküola!