“Adimiz miskindir bizim” (1973) – Mazhar and Fuat * Written by Yunus Emre and Mazhar Alanson * LP: Türküz Türkü Çağırırız! * Label: Yonca
This alluring Turkish folk-rock song’s Sufi-tinged title translates to “they call us mystics,” with the first verse approximating the following: “We’re called mystics, our enemy is called malice. We hold no grudges because all creation is one.” Mazhar Alanson and Fuat Güner would eventually add a third member, Özkan Uğur, which turned them into the more commercially successful MFÖ. Although their stage presence and instrumentation became wholly Eurovision-friendly (they represented Turkey in 1985 and 1988), their taste for mystic subject matter never fully abated.