mogollar

Mogollar is one of the pioneer bands in Turkish rock music for about 30 years and one of the founders of Turkish ethno rock music (or Anatolian rock music). The major goal of the band is to prove that folk music has a multi-layered soul and folk music's dynamism is very close to pop music's dynamism. The band members (Aziz Azmet, Cahit Berkay, Taner Ongur, Engin Yorukoglu and Murat Ses) tried to fuse the technical aspects of pop music with the melodies of ancient Anatolian folk music in late 1960s and early 1970s. The group reunited in the early 1990s without Murat Ses. Murat Ses is dealing with other projects and is still pursuing an extraordinary international career. The group won the Grand Prix du Disque (previously won by such groups as Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix) in 1971. See also: Turkish music