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TURKISH DELIGHT : VARIOUS ARTISTS
KHALIL TURK & FRIENDS
Turkish
Delight : Volume One
Release Date: 21st October 2022
Catalogue
Number: ESM370
Bar Code 5031281003706
Vinyl Catalogue Number:
ESMV1009
Barcode: 5 031281010094
The Musicians are:
Ronnie Platt: Lead vocals (Kansas)
Billy
Greer: Lead vocals (Kansas/Seventh Keys/Streets)
Jeff Scott Soto:
Lead and backing vocals (Talisman/Yngwie Malmsteen/Trans Siberian
Orchestra)
Robin McAuley: Lead and backing vocals (Michael
Schenker Group/Grand Prix/solo artist)
Chris Ousey: Lead vocals
and Backing vocals (Heartland/Ousey-Mann/Virginia Wolf))
Jerome
Mazza: vocals (Pinnacle Point/Steve Walsh)
James Christian: Lead
and backing vocals (House Of Lords)
Terry Brock: Lead vocals
(Strangeways/Kansas)
Lee Small: Lead and backing vocals (Phenomena/Lioneheart/Shy)
Mick
Devine: Lead and Backing vocals (Devine Intervention/7/solo
artist)
Ronnie Romero: Lead and backing vocals (Rainbow/Michael
Schenker Group)
Tony Harnell: Lead vocals and backing vocals
(TNT/Westworld/Starbreaker/Morning Wood)
Steve Overland: Lead
and backing vocals (Lonerider/FM/solo artist)
Robin Beck: Backing
vocals (solo artist)
Matt Sinner: Bass (Primal Fear/Sinner)
Joel
Hoekstra: Guitars (Whitesnake/ Trans Siberian Orchestra/13)
Mike
Slamer: Guitars (City Boy/Streets/Seventh Key/Steelhouse Lane)
Jeff
Pilson: Bass (Foreigner)
Gary Pihl: Guitars (Sammy Hagar/Boston)
Steve
Morris: Guitars and Keyboards (Heartland/Lonerider)
Gene Black: Lead Guitars
(Tina Turner/Rod Stewart/Device)
Billy Sheehan: Bass (Mr Big/The
Flood/Talas)
Tracy Ferrie: Bass (Stryper/Boston)
Ricky
Phillips: Bass (Baby’s/Styx/Bad English)
Rocky Newton:
Bass (Michael Schenker Group/Lionheart)
Josh Devine: Drums
(One Direction/Levara/Devine Intervention)
Takeaki Itoh: Bass
(Pinnacle Point)
Jim Kirkpatrick: Slide guitar (FM/The
Flood/Bernie Marsden Band)
Chris Childs: Bass (Thunder/Lonerider)
Steve
Mann: Keyboards (Michael Schenker Group/Lionheart/Ousey/Mann)
Vince
DiCola: Keyboards (Rocky4/Staying Alive/Transformers/Storming Heaven)
Mark
Mangold: Keyboards (Touch/American Tears/Drive She Said)
Alessandro
Del Vecchio: Keyboards (Revolution Saints/Edge Of Forever/Hardline)
Stevie
D: Lead guitar
Marco Mendoza: Bass (Whitesnake/Thin Lizzy/Journey)
Jimmy
Nicholas: B3 (Faith Hill/Kenny Loggins/Van Zant/Jim Peterik/Juice
Newton)
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards (Radioactive/Steve
Walsh/Robert Hart))
Brain J Anthony: Bass (Steve Walsh/Lonerider/Robert
Heart/ Robbie LeBlanc)
Brian Tichy: Drums (Whitesnake/Dead Daisies/
Foreigner)
Mark Stanway: Keyboards (Magnum/Grand Slam)
Robin
Beck: Backing vocals (solo artist)
Nikolo Kotzev: Lead guitars
(Brazen Abbot/Robin Gibb)
Fredrik Folkare: Guitars (Unleashed/Heartwind)
Mikael
Rosengren: Keyboards (Heartwind)
Steve Newman: Guitars/keys/backing
vocals (Newman/Compass)
Eric Ragno: Keyboards (Baby’s/Joe LynnTurner)
Fredrik
Bergh: Keyboards (Talk Of Town/Bloodbound)
Michael Lange: Drums
Vinyl
Side A
1. INTRO 1:49
Music
arrangement: Vince DiCola
2. Live Again 4:46
Steve
Newman)
Ronnie Platt: Lead vocals
Chris Ousey:
Backing vocals
Steve Newman: Guitars/keys/backing vocals
Steve
Mann: Keyboards
Stevie D: Lead guitar
Rocky Newton: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
3. Crazy Days 3:27
(Dean
London/Tommy Denander)
Jerome Mazza: vocals
Vince DiCola:
Keyboards
Joel Hoekstra: Guitars
Takeaki Itoh: Bass
Josh
Devine: Drums
4. Bad Enough 4:45
(Steve Newman)
Billy Greer: Lead vocals
Joel Hoekstra:
Guitars
Matt Sinner: Bass
Steve Newman: Keyboards
Eric
Ragno: Keyboards
Josh Devine: Drums
5. NEVER WILL FORGET 3:42
(Steve Morris / Mick Devine)
Mick Devine: Lead and
Backing vocals
Steve Morris: Guitars and keyboards
Jim Kirkpatrick:
Slide guitar
Chris Childs: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
Side B
1. Harder They Fall 3:54
(Steve
Overland / Tommy Denander)
Jeff Scott Soto: Lead and backing
vocals
Joel Hoekstra: Guitars
Tommy Denander: Guitars
Billy Sheehan: Bass
Alessandro Del Vecchio: Keyboards
Josh Devine: Drums
2. Get Out Of Here 3:57
(Mick
Devine / Steve Morris)
Terry Brock: Lead vocals
Mick Devine:
Backing Vocals
Gary Pihl: Guitars
Steve Morris: Keyboards
Tracy Ferrie: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
3. Believe 5:29
(Steve
Overland / Fredrik Bergh)
Robin McAuley: Lead and backing vocals
Mike Slamer: Guitars
Fredrik Bergh: Keyboards
Jeff
Pilson: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
4. Hangman Blues 3:20
(Lee
Smal /Tommy Denander)
Lee Small: Lead and backing
Joel Hoekstra:
Lead Guitars
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Rocky
Newton: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
Side C
1. State of Mind 4:40
(Mick
Devine / Tommy Denander)
Jerome Mazza: Lead and backing vocals
Mick Devine: Backing vocals
Gene Black: Lead Guitars
Tommy
Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Ricky Phillips: Bass
Mark
Stanway: Keyboards
Josh Devine: Drums
2. Belly Of The Beast* 5:24
(Steve
Morris/Chris Ousey)
Chris Ousey: Lead and backing vocals
Steve
Morris: Guitars
Mark Mangold: Keyboards
Chris Childs: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
3. Holy Water 5:13
(Mike
Slamer /Lee Small
Ronnie Romero: Lead and backing vocals
Lee
Small: Backing vocals
Mike Slamer: Guitars
Marco Mendoza:
Bass
Jimmy Nicholas: B3 Hammond
Josh Devine: Drums
4. Sweet Serenity 3:34
(Mikael Rosengren/James Christian)
James Christian: Lead
and backing vocals
Robin Beck: Backing vocals
Nikolo Kotzev:
Lead guitars
Fredrik Folkare: Guitars
Mikael Rosengren:
Keyboards
Takeaki Itoh: Bass
Josh Devine: Drums
Side D
1. Take It Away 3:30
(Steve Overland/Tommy Denander/Michael Landau)
Tony Harnell:
Lead vocals and backing vocals
Steve Overland: Backing vocals
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Marco Mendoza: Bas
Josh
Devine: Drums
2. BAD TO GOOD 4:27
(Steve Overland/Tommy Denander)
Steve Overland: Lead and
backing vocals
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Brain
J Anthony: Bass
Brian Tichy: Drums
3. The Year 2000** 6:04
(Vinyl Only)
(Dariush/Chris Ousey/Mariam Mohammed)
Chris
Ousey: Lead and backing vocals
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Brian Anthony: Bass
Michael Lange: Drums
4. FROZEN ROSE** 4:57
(Vinyl Only)
(Kouroush/Chris Ousey/Mariam Mohammed)
Chris
Ousey: Lead and backing vocals
Tommy Denander: Guitars and keyboards
Brian Anthony: Bass
Michael Lange: Drums
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CD Version:
1. Intro 1:49
2. Live
Again 4:46
3. Crazy Days 3:27
4. Bad Enough 4:45
5.
Never Will Forget 3:42
6. Harder They Fall 3:54
7.
Get Out Of Here 3:57
8. Believe 5:29
9. Hangman
Blues 3:20
10. State Of Mind 4:40
11. Belly Of
The Beast 5:24
12. Holy Water 5:13
13. Sweet Serenity
3:34
14. Take It Away 3:30
15. Bad To Good 4:27
Produced by Khalil Turk for Turkish
Delight Productions
Mixed and Mastered by Stephen DeAcutis at
Sound Spa Studio, New Jersey, USA
*Mixed by Andy
Zukerman
*Mastered by Fredrik Folkare
**Mixed and Mastered by Brian J Anthony (Vinyl
Only)
Artwork Design by Hugh Syme (Rush/Bad
English/Elton John)
Turkish Delights
‘Turkish Delights Volume One’ celebrates
the absolute joy that Escape Music co-owner Khalil Turk has for
the kind of music he loves so much and has spent the last thirty
and then some years championing. Indeed, his enthusiasm for a new
band or a new song today is no different from when I first met him
in the mid ‘80’s. I lost count of the number of phone calls he made
to me when I was working for ‘Kerrang!’ magazine, where he would
excitedly tell me ‘Dave, you just have to listen to this! It’s brilliant!
You’ll love it!’ before playing me something over the phone – new
and often obscure - he had picked up on his international record
buying trips. Nine and a half times out of ten he’d be right!!
Khalil’s quality control has been
such that the record label he co-founded with fellow melodic rock
enthusiast Barrie Kirtley in 1995 remains reliably and solidly in
place all these years later. Escape continues to deliver monthly
doses of quality hard rock, melodic rock and AOR to a very devoted
following.
Khalil had first entered the music
business in the early ‘90’s, effectively as a talent scout for the
German owned Long Island label. However, after the company folded,
Turk felt that, rather than look at opportunities with other
labels, he had the enthusiasm and now had rather more knowledge
of the inner workings of the music business to put something together
himself alongside the equally enthusiastic and astute Kirtley. We’ve
seen hundreds of solid album releases from a huge variety of acts
(including AXE, Steve Walsh (Kansas), John Elefante (Kansas), Lonerider,
Shadowman, Alliance, Pinnacle Point, Mass, Heartland, Grand Illusion,
Overland, Last Autumn’s Dream, Punky Meadows, ColdSpell, Chris Ousey,
Ozone and Touch, to name just a few) as well as reissues (from Aviator,
Sugarcreek, Jon Butcher Axis, Franke And The Knockouts, FM, Tantrum
and Surrender, Zon, Hanover Fist etc) ever since.
So here we are, over twenty five
years since that first Escape Music album appeared hot off the presses
(Heartland’s ‘III’ album in November 1995, if you’re asking) and
this collection of songs, personally chosen by Khalil, reiterates
that pure joy he still possesses for the music he is utterly immersed
by.
With material from the pens of Steve
Overland (FM), Chris Ousey (Heartland), Steve Morris (Export/Ian
Gillan/Heartland), Mick Devine (Seven), Steve Newman (Newman/Compass)
and Tommy Denander (Radioactive) there’s also a list of musicians
culled from Khalil’s contact book that, quite frankly, is VERY impressive.
Just a few names appearing on ‘Turkish Delights’ to throw at you
include Ronnie Platt (Kansas), Billy Greer (Streets/Kansas), Billy
Sheehan (Talas/David Lee Roth/Mr Big), Gary Pihl (Sammy Hagar/Boston/Alliance),
Gene Black (Device), Jeff Pilson (Dokken), Jeff Scott Soto, Chris
Childs (Thunder), Mike Slamer (City Boy/ Streets/Seventh Keys/Steelhouse
Lane) Joel Hoekstra (Whitesnake/Joel Hoekstra’s 13), Mark Mangold
(American Tears/Touch/ Drive, She Said), Mark Stanway (Magnum),
Mat Sinner (Sinner), Marco Mendoza (Thin Lizzy/Whitesnake/Journey),
Ricky Phillips (The Babys/Bad English/Styx), Robin Beck, Robin Mc
Auley (Grand Prix/MSG), James Christian (House Of Lords) Steve Overland
(FM), Jerome Mazza (Pinnacle Point/solo), Terry Brock (Strangeways)
and Vince DiCola (‘Transformers’/Thread/Storming Heaven). This is
a cast of thousands. Well, it at least appears that way!
It’s a very interesting package
and, as Khalil would surely say, you’ll love it!
Dave Reynolds
August 2022
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