Gaye Su Akyol

Acclaimed Turkish psych-rock sensation and Sub Pop recording artist Gaye Su Akyol announces her debut U.S. tour, set to hit select U.S. cities in September. Akyol's U.S. dates are part of her larger, worldwide 2023 tour in support of her new album Anadolu Ejderi (“Anatolian Dragon”) released in December 2022 on Sub Pop. Her latest single, "Love Buzz", was released earlier in August in advance of her U.S. debut. Gaye is an Istanbul-based musician and visual artist at the vanguard of a new psychedelic rock revival in Turkey; her music combines traditional Anatolian sounds, classical Turkish music, psychedelia, surf rock, and post-punk into a wild, dreamy and futuristic sound. Her work redefines the concepts of power, desire, change and rebellion, in tight-knit solidarity with women, queer and outcast communities, and rebels against societal gender roles, patriarchy, censorship, and oppression. She creates a universe of imagination, in which she constructs her own “counter-reality” against the stifling realities dictated by power.