Pharaway Vinyl, CD & Tape 2 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.

A wild, esoteric mix of psychedelic funk, afro-latin grooves, jazz and Italian / French styled library sounds courtesy of CUASARES, an enigmatic studio project created by pianist / arranger / visionary Waldo Belloso.
Acid fuzz guitar, cosmic synth splashes, distorted organ, flute, vibraphone, trippy studio effects...
Originally released in Argentine in 1973 as a micro-edition, here’s the first ever reissue.
Includes insert with photos and detailed liner notes by Eduardo A. Elizalde Pietruczyk (a.k.a. Bubbling Minds) and Mike Wallace.
Digital download card