Selda Bagcan | zh

Selda Bağcan (born 1948) is a Turkish singer-songwriter and political activist. Some of her most compelling music was recorded in the mid-1970s when she incorporated Turkish folk music with funk, progressive rock, and psychedelic music. .

Selda (Selda Bağcan, born 1948 in Muğla, Turkey) is a Turkish wonder, heroine of the anatolian invasion; a powerful voice and charged lyrics gave her the moniker of "the Joan Baez of Turkey". She's a protest-singer and an activist, and belongs to the Alevi religious and cultural minority. check the b-music/finders keepers reissue of her self titled 70s album for a mind blowing explosion of psychedelic radical folk pop. selda is a revalatory and groovy in new ways experience for your earhole. .

Trying to escape Irish traditional music uilleann piper Stijn van Beek ended up at a folkbal in Nijmegen, looking for some shelter for the autumn cold of 2007. But apparently there was no escape. Before he even managed to enter the dancefloor the haunting sound of the Irish pipes surrounded him once again, this time played by multi-instrumentalist Toon van Mierlo. They met after the concert and a steaming session took off. At a balfolk weekend in Enschede later the same year history repeated itself, this time with another Belgian musician: Jeroen Geerinck. As a matter of chance, Jeroen and...