Anatolian Psych Out Series Adds Second Volume of Turkish Rock Rarities

The first volume mapped the surface. Now, Anatolian Psych Out: Volume Two tunnels further into one of rock’s most compelling detours—the Turkish scene of the late 1960s and ’70s that wired centuries-old modal melodies to fuzz guitars, electric bağlama, and trance-state rhythms.

Seventeen tracks are gathered here, none treated as museum pieces. They come from a period when Turkish musicians were absorbing Western psychedelia and hard rock but refusing imitation. Instead, they warped imported sounds around local scales, vocal ornamentation, and the deep hum of traditional instruments. The result wasn’t fusion as a polite exercise—it was sweaty, hypnotic, and genuinely strange.

These songs have spent decades circulating through collector circles and specialist reissues, often shrouded in patchy documentation. The new compilation doesn’t claim to write the final history. It works more like a signal boost: pushing this music past the niche, not by overexplaining it, but by letting the fuzz speak for itself.