Altın Gün Announce North American Tour

ALTIN GÜN ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES THIS FALL CELEBRATING "SONICALLY EXPANSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL" (NPR) NEW ALBUM GARIP OUT NOW VIA ATO RECORDS ALEX MAAS OF THE BLACK ANGELS OPENING SHOWS @ BROOKLYN STEEL, THE ORPHEUM LA & MORE

Photo by Sanja Marusic PRAISE FOR ALTIN GÜN & GARIP “Sonically expansive and beautiful.” NPR Music "Sonic alchemy." SPIN "Traditional music as living blues, still asking timeless questions and still hitting right in the chest." KCRW “Masterfully navigates the balance of historical reverence and forward-looking creativity.” Relix “A thoroughly enjoyable ride." MOJO "A gateway to a universe of some of the most fascinating sounds you’re likely to hear." Spectrum Culture “Contains some of the band’s most endearingly experimental, otherworldly efforts." Far Out “One spin through Garip shows that the band are playing with a little bit more fiery pizazz, making it not just another time-marking installment in their catalog, but a highlight.” AllMusic “Mixing consummate grooves with a rich base of traditional folk music and 1960s psychedelic rock, Altin Gün continue to concoct their own musical genre.” Qobuz Magazine “A 10-song trip through palpable melodies that bend and twist without breaking, allowing the band to reimagine the same tropes they’re looking to uphold.” Glide Magazine

Today, Altın Gün — “Amsterdam’s finest Turkish psych revivalists” (Pitchfork) — announce their forthcoming North American tour, hitting major markets across the continent in rooms like Brooklyn Steel and The Orpheum this fall, taking along Alex Maas of The Black Angels and a co-founder of the Levitation Festival as their opener. Tickets are on sale this Friday, March 27 at 10am local. The tour is in celebration of their acclaimed recently released sixth album Garip via ATO Records, and in addition to European live dates set through the spring. All dates and details below. Watch a live performance video of album highlight "Zülüf Dökülmüs Yüze" here. The band's vocalist, keyboardist, and bağlama player Erdinç Eçevit recently talked about Garip on NPR's Weekend Edition, listen here. Altın Gün's experimental vision of rock and folk music has led them to world tours, opening slots for Tame Impala and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Coachella and Primavera festival stages, and even a GRAMMY nomination. Garip — which translates to "strange, poor, and alone" in English — is a loving tribute to Neşet Ertaş, a beloved icon of Anatolian music who carried the spirit of the ashik folk tradition into the modern era. Ertas was a gifted singer, lyricist, and bağlama virtuoso who recorded more than 30 albums and wrote hundreds of songs — some of which were famously recorded by the likes of Bariş Manço and Selda Bağcan. Through reimagining ten Ertaş compositions, Altın Gün carry on his trailblazing spirit — weaving in lush Arabesque string arrangements, bursts of saxophone, glimmering synth balladry, and a fresh surge of tightly wound rock ’n’ roll. Throughout they maintain a distinct cinematic scope, equal parts Bollywood and spaghetti western. Garip a fitting way to honor a figure as titanic as Ertaş, a work that traces Altın Gün's sonic roots while simultaneously charting an exhilarating path forward. For Erdinç Eçevit, interpreting a suite of Ertaş’s tunes is a chance to get back to his roots. “Both of my parents are from Turkey, from the same area he is from,” he says. “It's the music that I grew up with. When I was five, six years old, my grandfather always had cassettes by Neşet Ertaş and I used to listen to it all day long. Then I was too young to really understand the lyrics and the meaning, but I really liked the melodies." Now, years later, Eçevit has fully immersed himself in Ertaş’s lyrics — messages from the heart that are, he says, “stories about what he’s facing in life. The Turkish traditional music is the blues of the Turkish people.” On Garip, Altın Gün recast these songs of longing, heartache, and resilience with the freewheeling verve that has kept them on the cutting-edge of 21st century psychedelic music. They even collaborated with the Stockholm Studio Orchestra to lend a luxuriant, sophisticated feel to various tracks, with arrangements inspired by Egyptian popular music, Turkish Arabesque, and swooning mid-century French and Italian pop.   EU/UK Mar 24 - Grev Hall - Copenhagen, DK Mar 26 - Fallan - Stockholm, SE Mar 27 - Pustervik - Gothenborg, SE Mar 28 - Sentrum Scene - Oslo, NO Apr 11 - Le Temps Machine - Joue Le Tours, FR Apr 12 - Attabal - Biarritz, FR Apr 14 - Kafe Antzokia - Bilbao, ES Apr 15 - Son Estrella Galicia - Santiago De Compostella, ES Apr 16 - Bee Week - Madrid, ES Apr 18 - Psych Fest - Barcelona, ES Apr 19 - Le Bikini - Toulouse, FR May 12 - La Laiterie - Strassbourg, FR May 13 - Fri Son - Fribourg, CH May 14 - Sudpol - Luzern, CH May 15 - Gemini Festival - Bologna, IT NORTH AMERICA Sept 6 - The Pearl - Vancouver, BC Sept 7 - The Pearl - Vancouver, BC Sept 8 - Showbox Sodo - Seattle, WA Sept 9 - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR Sept 11 - The Regency Ballroom -  San Francisco, CA Sept 12 - The Orpheum Theatre - Los Angeles, CA Sept 15 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN Sept 16 - Vic Theatre - Chicago, IL Sept 18 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON Sept 19 - Théâtre Beanfield - Montreal QC Sept 22 - Big Night Live - Boston MA Sept 23 - Brooklyn Steel - Brooklyn NY Sept 24 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA Sept 25 - Howard Theatre - Washington, DC Sept 26 - Roxian Theatre - Pittsburgh, PA