Moğollar
| Moğollar | |
|---|---|
| Origin | İstanbul, Turkey |
| Genres | Anatolian rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, progressive rock |
| Years active | 1967–1976, 1993-present |
| Labels | Emre Plak |
| Associated acts | Silüetler |
| Website | www |
| Members | Emrah Karaca Cahit Berkay Taner Öngür Serhat Ersöz Kemal Küçükbakkal |
| Past members | Utku Ünal Engin Yörükoğlu (deceased in 2010) Nejat Tahir Özyılmazel (He was known as Neco since 1974) Aziz Azmet Ersen Dinleten Barış Manço (deceased in 1999) Selda Bağcan Cem Karaca (deceased in 2004) Murat Ses Haluk Kunt Hasan Sel Aydın Daruga (deceased in 2015) Ayzer Danga |
Moğollar (Mongols in Turkish) is one of the pioneer bands in Turkish rock music for about 40 years and one of the founders of Turkish folk rock (or Anatolian rock). The major goal of the band is to prove that folk music has a multi-layered soul and folk music's dynamism is very close to pop music's dynamism.
The band was founded in 1967 by Neco (Nejat Tahir Özyılmazel), Aziz Azmet, Aydın Daruga and Murat Ses who were previously members of Silüetler (silhouettes). However, Neco left the band at the end of 1967. Also, Cahit Berkay, who was a member of Selçuk Alagöz Band, and Haluk Kunt, who was a member of Vahşi Kediler (Wild Cats), both joined the band. Later, Haluk Kunt was replaced by Hasan Sel, who was a member of Apaşlar (Apaches) in 1968, and Aydın Daruga was replaced by Engin Yörükoğlu in 1969.
In 1970, Hasan Sel was replaced by Taner Öngür, previously a member of Meteorlar (Meteors) and the Erkin Koray Quartet. The band tried to fuse the technical aspects of pop music with the melodies of Anatolian folk music in late 1960s and early 1970s.
In July 1970, Aziz Azmet, the band's vocalist left the band due to musical disagreements and Ersen Dinleten replaced him for a short time. Moğollar recorded Ternek/Haliç'te Gün Batışı (Ternek/Sunset on the Golden Horn) 45 rpm, and left for Paris in August 1970. While they went to Paris , they signed a 3 year contract with CBS . While they made a 45 rpm album called Behind the Dark/Hitchin . After that , they signed with another record company called Guild International du Disque and made one album for this company. This album received a big record award called Academic Charles Cros in 1971. By that time, they met with Barış Manço and started to work with him while he was living in Belgium.
In 1968 the group won the third place in Turkish music contest Golden Microphone. In 1971 the group won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy (previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix). Nearly all of the tracks on this album are compositions or traditional arrangements of Murat Ses, the group's keyboardist, arranger and composer (official records by SACEM, GEMA and MESAM).
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