Surf guitars, double-tracked vocals, psychedelic overload, a summoning of the spirits of Syd Barrett and Brian Jones, punk and stoner rock, all wrapped in the region’s ancient culture and featuring a rumbling bassline of contemporary politics – welcome to Istanbul-based artist Gaye Su Akyol’s fourth album, Anadolu Ejderi (Anatolian Dragon), plugged directly into a power source that casts its own spell.
“Anadolu Ejderi is an archaeological excavation of the imprints of Anatolian people that were demolished culturally, socially and politically by coups and anti-democratic practices,” says the singer-songwriter. It is also, she adds, the expression of “a modern-age traveller questioning what it would be like if it were another way, a time machine transporting back and forth through the ages; [and] the sensual relationship a woman fosters with her body,…
