Mogollar

Makam madness gives way to instrumental prog on Mogollar's burned-out last album, released in 1976 by Turkey's Anadolu Pop heroes and now reissued. Mogollar was the band that never kept a singer for long, and yet even more than Baris or Erkin, the musicians consciously highlighted what was different about the new sounds of the era. This incredible fusion of ancient Anatolian melodies and instruments with prog/psych (including occasional piercing fuzz guitar) is recommended to anyone into John Berberian, Devil's Anvil and vintage Turkish psych. This reissue comes with remastered sound and includes liner notes by Angela Sawyer.