'Barış Manço' History:
About Barış Manço"Along with Erkin, Baris Manco is one of the earliest stars of Turkish rock'n roll whose first public -success dates back to late 50's. He won scholarship in Belgium Royal Academy in 1963 and went to Belgium to study graphics and art. By the time he was there he was always busy with music and put out records in both Belgium and in Turkey (to where he returned for four or five months every year. Influenced by the rapid cultural movements occuring at the time in Europe, he realised his own country could be the cultural link between East and West, a link avidly sought by many open-minded Western European thoughts. After his collaborations with Les Mistigris and Kaygisizlar, Manço went on to form another band under his name which compromised of multi-national musicians. Best remembered for their fantastic live bluesy underground music." Gökhan Aya & Jay Dobis Baris Manço stayed in music business very long but succeeded to be fresh and renewing most of the time. His most early twist period is less interesting. His French songs are good. Later work is more '70's rock inspired. After 1978 attention to musical aspects in music faded out. I like the video's he made later in his life. The use of children to present/dance his music there I find soothening and bringing different ages together too. Some late albums are textual of more importance for his goal then that they musically explores musical ideas with Rock bands like before. "Baris Manco : Formerly a rockn'roll singer Manco had many evaluations during his career in music. He had experience in many genres in music some with a good will , some fully commercial. Beginning his career in 1958 at the age of 15, he experienced rockn'roll, twist, beat, Turkish psychedelic , east and west, ambient, funk , anatolian rock etc... He had the chance to make music with fabolous Hammond organist Murat Ses in two of his singles...After his sessions with Murat Ses he gained a view of creating ambient soundscapes...He had the advantage of this inheritance in his most strange concept album:"2023" which was produced in 1975....The album included two musical legends:one is "Kayalarin Oglu, 2023" the other is "Baykoca Destani" ...Kayalarin Oglu, 2023 is the greatest score he had produced...For the first time in an album a drum machine was used recalling the ambience of Jean Micheal Jarre's Oxygene....The string synthesizers were the leading keys during the album, but also Hammond Watkings Phaser, and an early model of Korg also had its place in the album...In 1977 in his album called "Baris Mancho" published by C.B.S. ; Mancho made a vocal version of 2023...The album was a complete failure with its Bonny M sound in both musical and commercial field.After this failure Manco returned with the lp "Yeni Bir Gun"(A New Day)(1979) In the lp he had covered 2023 with a different context, and with extra creative arrangements and compositions added by Ahmet Guvenc (bass guitarist of Manco's group Kurtalan Express) and Kilic Danisman (Moog , elc. Piano and strings player of Kurtulan Express) The name was 2024....The album also had a different ambient score named Coban Yildizi (The Sheppard Star which is a name of The Planet Venus)...He told the story of the planet venus with a musical and an epic way which is very typical in most of Manco's works. He used the same argument of Von Daniken during telling the story and making it an epic science fiction score like Murat Ses did 3 years before Manco's attempt.In 1981 Manco did "2025 , the last journey" for his 1981 L.P. "Sozum Meclisten Disari" ...In this lp Nejat Tekdal assisted Manco in using E.M.S. synthesizer which Manco needed the help of Gokcen Kaynatan to create a single sound because of its specificity...With aid of Tekdal Manco exhibites 3 great pieces such as "Gulpembe", "Donence" ,and "2025"...After this album Manco can be observed more an entertainer than a musician.That was so because of the great tranformation of Turkey after 12th September coup where nobody could achieve to use his civil initiative...The objects of art became objects of a non-limited consumption...In this circumstance Manco also had to cheat in a popular culture pool... I was still hopeful for his comeback where he could express who he really was...But too late for him and still we have time to archieve his works and provide unreleased stuff to be on the market...Manco died on February 1,1999...Play Moog in the heaven!!!" source: http://progressive.homestead.com/Baris_Manco.html |
Barış Manço Discography:
| Release Title and date | |
 | Mançoloji, Disc 1 1999 |
 | Mançoloji, Disc 2 1999 |
| 2023 | |
| 24 ayar | |
| baris mancho | |
| ben bilirim | |
| daglar daglar | |
| darýsý baþýnýza | |
| degmesin yagli boya |
| disco manço | |
| disco mancho | |
| hal hal | |
| iste baris iste manco | |
| kol basti | |
| live in japan | |
| mançoloji cd2 | |
| mega manco | |
| musaadenizle cocuklar | |
| sahibinden ihtiyactan |
| sanat'ta 41 yil (cd1) | |
| sari cizmeli mehmet aga | |
| süper babaanne | |
| sozum meclisten disari | |
| the best of baris manco | |
| yeni bir gün | |
| yuregimdeki baris sarkilari |
