Dirtmusic - Love Is a Foreign Country (feat. Gaye Su Akyol)

Taken from the album ’Bu Bir Ruya’ Order now: Video by Hoda Siahtiri and Laurent Van Lancker All images by Polymorfilms Dirtmusic return for their fifth album, a full-scale collaboration with Turkish-psych visionary Murat Ertel from Baba Zula. Recorded in Istanbul, the album navigates hypnotic rhythms, cinematic atmospheres and dark political realities. ‘We need music like this to stay sane’ – Murat Ertel The striking figure of Murat Ertel is standing at the door of his home studio, a converted mechanic’s garage in a suburb of Istanbul. The Turkish capital is a tense and conflicted place these days, but Baba Zula’s leader and saz man is on fine form. Before him stand those current and former musical nomads, Chris Eckman and Hugo Race, guitars in hand. Dirtmusic are about to take on their latest, and perhaps most thrilling, form. But let’s rewind a little, for Dirtmusic’s story is worth your time (although it perhaps makes more sense to talk about