Anadol - Hatiralar

Pingipung

£30.76

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: Pingipung080
Barcode: 4250101452086
Release Date: 09 Jun 2023
Genre: Electronic/Outernational/Experimental

The title Hatıralar ("Memories") turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Anadol recalled and revisited the music in 2023, gently editing and mixing the compositions for the newly mastered LP format in which they now see the light of day. Hatıralar represents an early version of the melodic, instrumental synth-pop that Anadol refined on her album Uzun Havalar (2019) before exploring the more free, krautrockinspired musique concrète of her last album Felicita (2021). Here is the text that accompanied the original 2017 release:

Anadol, named after an old-fashioned Turkish automobile brand, is an instrumental synth-pop project by Gözen Atila, an artist, dj and keyboard player. She records with mini organs manufactured during the 70s and 80s, the built-in rhythms and arpeggios of these machines provide the backbone of her sound, and her melodies are influenced by pop music and soundtracks from France, Italy and Turkey from the same period.

The music is awash with allusions to the moods of old Turkish and European cinema, from the erotic to the melodramatic, and with a reminiscence of the sound and spirit of so-called "tavern music" popular in Turkey's urban nightlife in the 1980s, a flexible pop style usually performed by a solo keyboardist-singer. Anadol is a continuation of the tradition of lone synth experimentalists like Bruce Haack and The Space Lady with their childlike curiosity for electronic sounds, and of the keyboardists pushing the boundaries of minimal equipment to entertain middle aged drunk couples in pubs and wedding parties of Istanbul.

Tracklist:
A1 Yapılacak Kadın A2 Her Şeylerin Arasından Göründü Bana Bir Ceylan A3 Gurbet Bekçisi A4 Zengin Olur Giderim A5 Orman Yangını A6 Ya Benimsin Ya Onların A7 Gel Elimi Tut B1 Hatıralar B2 Kiralık Aşk B3 Sekiz Sütuna Sekiz Manşet B4 Tahta Sucu B5 Sazlıklardan Havalanan Havada Asılı Kalan