Erkin Koray - Live in Nazilli 1974

Erkin Koray is a legendary composer,  also - one of the last remaining  og 'psychedelic rock warriors' and guitar virtuoso who has made a name for himself in the early on in the 70s in Turkey he is regarded as the 'Godfather of Rock' and often referred to as Erkin Baba

He is definitely a uniquely interesting individual in the course of rock 'n roll history.

Erkin Koray at the time had been aware of his influences, and motivations and was studying music  since his youth in the early 60s but he has always one way or another remained true to his 'hard rock' rocker roots while always having a kind of spiritual understanding of the world.

He sometimes wrote and performed songs that were usually outside the singer-songwriter norm of his time and performed in a different number of ways sometimes performing solo.

As an innovator of a new kind of 'rock' sound that hadn't been heard before, Erkin Koray kept striving to invent these sounds with his own personal musical preferences to merge his western influences garage rock with elements of raga and ethno-folk to make a (new) kind of music that is still fresh and innovative today..


The following recording is from a live concert in a small movie theatre in rumor has it that this recording only exists because the drummer Nihat Örenel (ex-Bunalımlar) had hit 'record' on happenstance following a conversation with Erkin Koray who was a bit curious about what he sounded like live..

Truly a seminal moment in the course of global psychedelia and rock 'n roll history


We're lucky enough that this piece of history is within our reach


He is said to be working on a new album which will be his 27th














Long live The Baba!