In the spring of 2017, Hayvanlar Alemi closed themselves in a studio in a small Italian town for a few days and recorded material for multiple future releases. Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence includes the heavier compositions that came out of these sessions, and marks a further stage in the band's 20 year history with a more layered production and an emphasis on slower, progressive compositions that carry elements from drone metal, stoner rock and psychedelic doom, while subtly preserving the overtones of the band's brand of globally-informed folkloric psych rock. This album presents the side of Hayvanlar Alemi which tends towards the darker without losing the colors, and tends towards the sombre without losing the vitality, with songs that surrender to gravity but refuse to touch the ground.
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released March 26, 2020
Özüm İtez: Guitar
Hazar Mutgan: Bass
Işık Sarıhan: Drums and Percussion
Founded in Ankara in 1999. Instrumental psychedelic rock informed by the traditional and popular styles of the globe,
blending together scales and rhythms of Asia, Africa, Middle East and South America with surf, dub, stoner rock, free improvisation and sonic experimentalism.
The band's latest release is "Evidence of Life on Earth", an album of concert recordings (Inverted Spectrum Records, 2023)...more
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Oh how I long for this album in vinyl format! Such smoothness. Such warmth. Such execution. This music begs to be taken along and woven into memories. Everyone I’ve shared this album with has loved it. The music speaks far and wide. Shouting out to a fellow follower, Brian Lehmann, for his excellent taste in music. If not for him, I likely would have never stumbled upon this absolute gem! Plinchmo Larduktin