Altin Gün recently dropped “Neredesin Sen” the track, is the band’s Lead single off their forthcoming album Garip, available February 20 via ATO Records. Altin Gün have also announced European live dates set through the spring, with more dates to be announced throughout the year. The band have previously shared the stage with Tame Impala, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, and more.
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Garip — which translates to “strange” 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.

For Altin Gün’s vocalist, keyboardist, and bağlama player 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.”

Altin Gün have 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.

Altin Gün
Garp
ATO Records
Tracklisting

1. Neredsin Sen
2. Gōnūl Daği
3. Öldürme Beni
4. Niğde Bağları
5. Benim Yarim
6. Suçum Nedir
7. Gel Yanima Gel
8. Zülüf Dökülmüs
9. Gel Kaçma Gel
10. Bir Nazar Eyledim

Altin Gün 2026 Tour Dates

Jan 31 – Muziekgieterij – Maastricht, NL
Feb 14 – Doornroosje – Nijmegen, NL
Feb 26 – 013 – Tilburg, NL
Feb 28 – De Roma – Antwerp, BE
Mar 5 – Paradiso – Amsterdam, NL
Mar 10 – Trianon – Paris, FR
Mar 13 – Koko – London, UK
Mar 17 – Carlswerk – Cologne, DE
Mar 19 – Huxleys Neue Welt – Berlin, DE
Mar 22 – Grosse Freiheit – Hamburg, DE
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

Pre-order Garip by Garp HERE.