Alarga
Ankara, Turkey | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | SELF
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Indie-Pop band Alarga from Ankara, has released their second EP Inside Out last week via SoundCloud. The band is united in early 2014 and has stood out after their first performance.
You can listen the EP, which is recorded in Studio Teras, below. - Bant Mag.
Ankara based five-piece indie band Alarga, shared their second EP Inside Out.
The band -consists of Çağın Kırca, Cansu Turgut, Ozan Özgül, Can Sürmen and Hakan Karaaslan- founded in February 2014. The music they describe as ‘something naive’ promises for great works in the future.
Moreover you can give a listen to the debut EP, Uzakta, here. - Gri Balkon
Here comes Alarga with their debut album ¨Mono¨right after their third EP ¨25.09¨released in March 2015. There are 10 songs in album including the familiar ones from their previous EPs like “Bridges”, “Bu çok insani bi’ şey” and “Hengâme”. You may listen to the album via YouTube, Spotify and iTunes.
There are both English and Turkish songs in album. This seems not to harm the unity of the album. Mono sounds really good that may courage many musicians whom affraid of releasing an album includes both English and Turkish lyrics.
Bossa guitars, west origined, Turkish influenced trumpets, rhodes, synths... Not that simple, even so eurythmical. Sometimes powerful, always naive.
Opening song “Artık Gel” ve “Hugrats”, resembles Belle&Sebastian in the light of the tones and usage of synths. Influences from “Quite is the new loud” musicians of 90's and 2000's are quite obvious.
Bossa-fusion atmosphere makes itself appreciable esspecially through in the song “Time”, it merges with lucid vocals of Çağın Kırca and lurid bass melodies and left a beatiful taste at your mouth.
“Bu çok insani bi’ şey” is closing song of the album. Besides it is more acrid than it is promised through album. It makes you feel like the whole album is a defeatist's story. It is strange that the vocals are more powerful and at higher pitches than other songs but -maybe- the only sad song at the closure of the album. And beautiful. Naive. As we have not listened to but ¨as it is said before¨, actually ¨so pretendable¨.
Listen to the album on cold but sunny days. - Onur Sesigür
Discography
Uzakta (Far Away) (Debut EP, May 2014)
Inside Out (EP, September 2014)
25.09 (EP, March 2015)
Mono (Album, September 2015)
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Alarga is a five piece indie pop band. It has risen around the songs which the band would classify as ¨naive¨ if there was such a genre.
Released 3 EPs in last 3 years and an album called ¨mono¨ via digital platforms.
Has performed at Sofar Sounds Ankara and many acoustic ¨room occasions¨.
They're working on an album based on imaginary friend stories of their audience which they collected at one of their shows.
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