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CMU Approved
Approved: Gaye Su Akyol
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 24 October 2018
Turkish musician Gaye Su Akyol is set to release her third album, ‘İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir’, through Glitterbeat this week.
With a sound drawing heavily on Anatolian pop and rock of the 60s and 70s, the album’s title translates as ‘Consistent Fantasy Is Reality’. An examination of her personal politics, the lyrics may be presented in a tongue I don’t understand, but Akyol’s passion is more than apparent throughout.
“In terms of its philosophy, lyrics, music and motto, this album is the dream of pure freedom, of showing the courage to be yourself, of looking at the culture I was born into without alienation”, she says. “A ‘dreaming practice’ propounded into a country and world that is increasingly turning inward and becoming a conservatised prison”.
“I believe that we need to create a counter reality in order to challenge organised evil and the horrible reality it creates, and the strongest option here is consistent dreaming”, she goes on. “There is nothing as spectacular and beautiful as a free mind. As soon as I realised that the only difference between dreams and reality was ‘consistency’ in my mind, the universe became a better place”.
Listen to the album’s title track here:
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