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Crazy Turks Orhan Gencebay Saliha Enzenauer

Apocalyptic Gospel, Existential Doom & Blasphemious Grooves: The Story of Orhan Gencebay, Turkey’s Best Kept Secret

We will deal with another heavyweight of Turkish music today, one who refuses the genre name ‘Arabesk’ for being „inadequate and uncomplete“, and prefers labels such as ‘Progressive Turkish Music’ or simply: ‘Gencebay Music’. Orhan Gencebay has officially sold 80 million records in Turkey- which already makes him one of the most succesful artists on …

Kraftwerk Most popular Music Saliha Enzenauer

Kraftwerk Was Never About The Future, But Always About The Present

We were pretty sure that we weren’t raised in Liverpool. Our generation had to come up with a counterpoint to that… Kraftwerk was willing to relate to the past of German identity. Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk, 1975-91) If you ever plan to fly to Cologne and its neighbor-city Düsseldorf for its electronic music & ‘Krautrock’ heritage …

GAS Music Saliha Enzenauer

More Light, Less Hocus-Pocus: GAS-RAUSCH (2018)

Eigteenth of Oktember The night falls The king comes The hunt starts Wolfgang Voigt, Rausch (2018) GAS is Wolfgang Voigt, co-founder of the legendary electronic music label Kompakt from Cologne, and Rausch (2018) is his masterpiece. On the cover art we see and on the two discs we hear the mythical German forests, birthplace of …

Beatles Music Saliha Enzenauer Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono: Half A Century of Beatles Fans And Their Orientalism

My readers will know that no band on this planet annoys me more than the Beatles, an outrageously overrated band with decent tunes that function best as good children’s music. A band whose music and boring story is forced on us in an endless reproduction-loop through radio stations and music magazines which put the four …