Siddhartha - Siddhartha (1998)

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Genre: Space / Progressive Rock
Country: Turkey
Date : 1998
Playing Time: 1:13:46
Quality:
- Lossy: WMA 128 kbps
- Artwork: Front

About:
Wrapped somewhere in the Porcupine Tree/Pink Floyd school or space prog lies Siddhartha blending instrumentation into some of the most delicious jams you have ever heard. Siddhartha blend Gilmour'esque electric guitar over symphonic landscape with some incredible bass and percussive moments.
This album is full of major mood swings from very serene and tranquil moments to the all out blitzkrieg jam sessions. Vocals are convincingly sung in english and in fact carry a certain "spaceyness" to them which fits the music quite well. Instrumentation is deep with some great warm sounds for your speakers.
Siddhartha is full of surprises and each songs carries its own colors and characteristics always sounding highly original. This is an essential recording and will absolutely remain a classic in this household.
The long tracks, like the instrumental “A Trip to Innerself” (10’29”) and the partly instrumental “Nervous Breakdown” (12’03”) has long stretched passages of over-the-top layers of psychedelic electric guitar improvisations with second echoed guitars, some (reverbed) bass guitars, has several Floydian movements and guitar effects, psychedelic keyboards and keyboard effects, some great progressive drumming, and a nice variation in the songs themselves. The second track "The Explorer" is a great guitar psych song with some Middle Eastern tuning elements. The third track "Desert" is an acoustic song (with double layered guitar). “Kervan” after that is a fantastic psych track with reverb guitars, keyboards, lots of rhythm changes, drums and some additional Turkish percussion. “Baroque” is even more arranged -progressive/psychedelic rock- with some harpsichord, with many guitar layers, with an old classical like composition still in a psych/prog style. "Beyond Destiny” is also very arranged, with multilayers of electric guitars and is in between prog and psych, with here and there a progressive hard rock touch in the guitar psychedelica. Like on the first track we hear also bits of piano there, and some English vocals. The last long track, “Om” also has some female vocals to it. Hidden in the last minutes is also a great mystery track : Middle Eastern psychedelica combined with another variety of rock styles.
Highly recommended. This has great guitar playing, very good arrangements and splendid execution !! I'm sure the group would have been really big if they were more known.

Tracklist:
01. Kervan (4:31)
02. Nervous Breakdown (12:05)
03. Om (16:07)
04. Desert (3:37)
05. The Explorer (7:01)
06. A Trip To Innerself (10:31)
07. Baroque (4:03)
08. Beyond Destiny (9:07)
09. Distant Cry (6:45)

Siddhartha:
- Özgür Kurcan / vocals, guitars
- Ege Madra / guitars
- Ulas Akin / bass
- Volkan Yildirim / keyboards
- Orkun Öker / keyboards
- Kaan Sezgin / drums
- Nil Karaibrahimgil / vocals
- Kerem Özyegen / vocals
- Neslihan Engin / keyboards
- Berke Özcan / percussion
- Serkan Yilmaz / percussion

Download:
WMA 128: Link

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