Avaz

Avaz is the third album by the Turkish band Replikas. Spending a lot of their early career in dingy backstreet venues of Istanbul, Replikas - “great Beyoglu hopes” – have never taken much notice of the mainstream making so much noise around them or tried to make themselves easy to classify. In a country where popular musicians face challenges when trying to stand out, Replikas have made a unique name for themselves. Taking inspiration from Avant- and Kraut-Rock, and adding Turkish elements with bits of traditional or cultures spices, their new album Avaz has a new bounce and, compared with their previous two post-punk/noise albums, a return-to-roots feel. Perhaps this is best seen in the raw reworking of Ömür Sayacı, a song which appears on their previous album [Dadaruhi]. Producer Wharton Tiers has taken their material born in those crowded cellar bars and helped shape and guide their back-to-basics direction: guitars sound like guitars, electronics gain personality, and vocals are perfectly placed in a design where carefully constructed sound allows for wide open musical spaces. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaz_(a...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)