21. Peron

This Is The First Ever Reissue Of Assembled Recordings From This Off-Shoot Group Of The Izmir College Band -Who Did Release A Few Singles Recordings Before-. The Izmir College Band Was Started In 1970 Highly Influenced By Creedence Clearwater Revival The Who And Crosby Stills Nash And Young And Even Performed Tommy At Some Schoolshows Back In 1972. They Won The Milleyet Contest In 1973 With A Self Written Tune. After That The Group Members Changed Due To Graduating Included A Viola Player And Renamed Their Group Into '21.Peron'. Their Influences Expanded And Included Zappa Genesis And Gentle Giant With Still Sympathy For The Anadolu Rock Which They Continued To Develop. In 1974 They Did A Progrock Jingle For A National Radio Show By Ümit Tunçag Who Supported Jazz And Progressive Music. By 1975 They Moved To An Instrumental Style Of Music With Some Yes And Genesis Influences Which Was Respected But Hard To Understand For The Turkish Public. At That Time They Recorded 5 Tracks Themselves But It Was Impossible To Find A Label To Release This. Although Erkin At That Time Gave Examples Of Oriental Psychedelic Heavy Metal And Sometimes He Played Very Jimmy Hendrix-Like Bands With Cem Karaca Had Even Performed Symphonic Rock Büyükburç Had Its Hard Rock Band And Also Selda And Edip Akbayram Performed Their Own Heavy Folkrock Style. There Were Bands Like Oksijen Tehlikeli Maddle And Tank With A Hard Edged Inventive Style. Not Many Of Such Recordings Ever Made It Onto Record. More "experimental" Or Progressive Music From Small Groups Outside The Altin Mikrofon Contest And The Milleyet Schoolband Contest Simply Were Not Promoted. Although Turkish Labels Did Turkish Pressings Of The Classic Prog Bands Like Pink Floyd Jethro Tull Led Zeppelin Etc. Within Their Own Ranks Only Short Songs Of The Inventive Folkrockcrossover Nice Crossover Style Of Anadolu Pop Were Preferred And Be Printed And Although These Artists Had A Remarkable Also Progressive Rock Creativity Only A Certain Degree Of Freedom Was Permitted To The Known Artists Ersen Büyükburc Erkin Koray Mogollar Cem Karaca Fikret Kizilok . In 1977 The Group Had The Permission By Label Owners Attila Özdemiroglu And Sanar Yurdatapan To Record In A Professional Studio Another 6 Songs. The Tracks Had To Find A More Compact Form And Balance For The Market's Rules. The Tapes Were Used Once For A TRT National Broadcast Airplay But Then Were Left Unused Ever Since. In 1978 The Band Made Live Arrangements For An Additional Orchestra. "Petruska" Was Played Live In A 12 Minute Version Rock Band With Orchestra But This Full Version Recording Was Not Included On This LP Yet. Around The Same Time The German Band Embryo Started Their First World Music Tour Documented For The Indian & Pakistan Parts Afterwards On "Embryo's Reise . In Turkey They Played With 21.Peron Although The Important Part Of The Violin Wasn't There Because Alp Had To Leave The Band For His Studies. In 1979 Just As A Joke The Band Suggested A Song For The Eurovision Song Festival And Were Accepted. Due To The Oil Crisis And Threats By Other Middle Eastern Countries To Participate Turkey's Entry In Israel Was Cancelled So The Band Never Came To It. After This The Band Recorded A Pop Album The Only Thing That Was Permitted Then. Only Recently The Band Reconsidered And Put Their Old Recordings Together To Publish The LP They Once Had Dreamed Of To Release. "Anne" Has A Anadolu Rock Flavour But Also Includes Some Psych Organ Wah Wah Guitar And Violin Improvisation With A Developed Sound Varying From A Garage Psych Feeling But It Is Definitely Symphonic In Its Evolution. "18400 TL." Is Inventive With Its Sound And Compromises Progressive Rock And Bluesrock Or Beat Rhythms With Anadolu Folk And Anadolu Fuzz Psych Ideas Also In A Symphonic Way. Fantastic !
"F.M.Ö" Is More Experimental Improvised. Progressive Music To Lick Your Fingers To. The Track Was Meant As An Imaginary Mini-Soundtrack. "Petruska" Is Based Upon Stravinski's Composition In A Great Progressive / Chamber Music Rock Interpretation Inventively Played. Stunning ! If This Version Of 6 Minutes Is Already That Good I Wish To Hear The 12 Minute Version With Additional Arrangements !! I'm Sure Stravinsky Would Have Approved This Work. Side B Starts With "Cocukluk Anilarim" A More Relaxed Track With A Banjo-Like Ethno-Folk Instrument Electric Guitars Great Psych Organ Violin Drums. "Inilti" And "Bes" Are Good Symphonic Tracks With Much More Keyboard Chord Input Guitars And Drums Just Like Various West European Bands From Mid Seventies. "Sarap Mahzeninde Gece" Has A Combination Of Driving Anadolu Elements With Heavy Prog Rock With Refined But Powerful Arrangements Arranged Perfectly Into A Progressive Form. "FMO II" A Bit More Moody Fits Perfectly Here With Curved Air Like Violin Adaptation And A Bit More Experimenting Within Improvisation With Echoed And Experimental Sounds Guitars Violin . Last Track "Arap Bebegin Dansi" With A Debussy Theme Starts A Bit Different With A More Fun Rhythmical Moog And Organ With Some Dance Violin Combined Unexpectedly With Some Heavy Prog Rock Guitars. In Some Way It Gives Another Aspect Of The Anadolu Rock Scene Reminiscent Of Erol Büyükbürç Area/story Here It Still Is With All Its Seriousness Intact. Photos And More Info At Http //progressive.Homestead.Com/21PERON.Html read less