SARI ÇIZMELI MEHMET AGA (GERMAN CASSETTE)

Track listing

1. Sarı Çizmeli Mehmet Ağa (4:23)
2. Gesi Bağları (4:32)
3. Çoban Yıldızı (4:20)
4. Bir Selam Sana Gönül Dağlarından (4:01)
5. Flower of Love (2:52)
6. Fairground (3:08)
7. Susanna (3:15)
8. Ce Sera La Temps (3:05)
9. Aynalı Kemer İnce Bele (3:06)
10. 2024 / İkinci Yolculuk (6:09)
11. Ham Meyvayı Kopardılar Dalından (4:08)
12. Kurtalan Ekspresi (Kurtalan Hauptbahnhof) (5:30)
13. Runaway (2:52)
14. Bolu Dağları (2:25)
15. Dragon Fly (4:35)

Total time: 58:24

Tracks 1-8 are the A-side, 9-15 are the B-side on the cassette and vinyl editions


Tracks 1-4; 9-11 are directly taken from "Yeni Bir Gün" (1979)
(Second part of track 10 is replaced with the instrumental backing track of the song "Lady of the Seventh Sky" from 1976's "Baris Mancho.")
Track 5: single b-side, 1968 (with Kaygısızlar)
Tracks 6 and 7: failed attempt at a single, 1969 (with Kaygısızlar)
Track 8: 1977 or 1978 recording by a transitional line-up of Kurtalan Ekspres.
Track 12 is one of the first recordings made by Kurtalan Ekspres in 1972.
Track 13: single b-side, 1969 (with Kaygısızlar)
Track 14: instrumental recording by the "Baris Manco Etc." band from 1970.
Track 15: outtake from "Baris Mancho" sessions (1976) (includes "Bir Kelebeğin Yaşam Öyküsü" from "Yeni Bir Gün")

On the original cassette editons' covers, track 6 is not listed and the names of tracks 8 and 13 are misspelled.
No info (other than track names) is found on the cassette or CD covers. Line-up and recording dates are taken from "Yeni Bir Gün" LP's cover and music magazines of the times.

"Yeni Bir Gün" line-up (1978-1979, tracks 1-4; 9-11, info taken from Yeni Bir Gün LP cover):
- Barış Manço / lead vocals, classical & 12 string guitar, sitar, glockenspiel, synthesizer
Kurtalan Ekspres:
- Ahmet Güvenç / bass
- Bahadır Akkuzu / electric guitar
- Caner Bora / drums
- Celal Güven / percussion
- Kılıç Danışman / acoustic and electro piano, hammond organ, synthesizer
Guest musicians:
- Oktay Aldoğan / flute, tenor saxophone (track 4)
- Fuat Güner / Leslie guitar (track 3)
- Ömür Gidel / Fender Rhodes piano (uncredited, tracks 1 & 9)
- İskender and Mehmet / violins (tracks 3 & 4)
- uncredited female vocalists (track 1)

Transitional line-up between "Baris Mancho" & "Yeni Bir Gün" albums (1977-'78, track 8):
- Barış Manço / lead vocals, keyboards
- Ahmet Güvenç / bass
- Fehiman Uğurdemir / electric guitar
- Caner Bora / drums
- Celal Güven / percussion
- Kılıç Danışman / piano, hammond organ, synthesizer
- Oktay Aldoğan / saxophones

Kaygısızlar (1968-'69 recordings, tracks 5, 6, 7 & 13)
- Barış Manço / lead vocals, guitar & keyboards
- Mazhar Alanson / guitar
- Fuat Güner / guitar
- Mithat Danışan / bass
- Ali Serdar / drums

Baris Manco Etc. (1970, track 14):
- Barış Manço / guitar
- Jonathan Glemser / guitar
- Onkhan Tunca / bass
- Mounir Ghattas / percussion

"Baris Mancho" outtakes (1976, second half of track 10; track 15)
- Barış Manço / lead vocals, keyboards (Moog, Arp & Korg Synthesizer), 12-string guitar
- Celal Güven / congas
- Caner Bora / drums
- Ahmet Güvenç / bass
- Ohannes Kemer / guitar, yaylı tambur
- Kılıç Danışman / string ensemble
- Oktay Aldoğan / flute
- Georges Hayes / arranger & conductor
See "Baris Mancho" album in the discography for the full list of musicians
track 15 also includes some parts recorded during "Yeni Bir Gün" sessions.

Kurtalan Ekspres on track 12 (recorded 1972):
- Ohannes Kemer / guitar, yaylı tambur
- Nur Moray / drums
- Engin Yörükoğlu / drums
- Celal Güven / percussion
- Özkan Uğur / bass
- Nezih Cihanoğlu / guitar

Cassette Türküola - 1341 (1980, Germany)
Cassette 747 - T 0023 (1980, Singapore)
Cassette Akbaş Müzik GmbH - no cat. number (1999, Germany)

CD Akbaş Müzik GmbH - no cat. number (1999, Germany)

LP Türküola - EU-009 (2015, Germany)


This album is a compilation of tracks partly taken from "Yeni Bir Gün" album, and a variety of outtakes and published or unpublished single tracks spanning the years 1968-1979. It was first released as cassette in Germany (shortly afterwards reissued by the Singapore label 747) and was available in Turkey only through cassettes brought by visitors.
Another compilation under the same title including almost all "Yeni Bir Gün" tracks was issued by Yavuz Plak (original publisher of the album) in 1986, but that album is more like a cassette/CD edition of the LP (it doesn't include any rarities, but tracks from "2023" and "Baris Mancho" albums as extras), so it will be added to the discography as another album.