Adnan Varveren Abidik Gubidik Twist

The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion

In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu Pop. But that was just the beginning. Through the second half of that turbulent decade, Turkish rock warped and transformed, striking out into wilder and stranger territory _ fuelled by the psychedelic revolution and played out over a backdrop of cultural, social and political turmoil. The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered by Western crate-diggers. It�s a tale of larger-than-life musical pioneers with raging political passions and visionary ideas ripe for rediscovery.

İstanbul

A Long Day's Evening

Shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award in Translation: Turkey's great experimental modernist pens a philosophical novel in three parts about desire, faith, and the psychology of prohibited love.