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Escape Music is pleased to announce the release date for Khalil Turk & Friends Turkish Delight second studio album titled “Volume 2“ with 500 limited edition double Vinyl “Side A B Ashy Grey colour and side C D Kinky Pinky colour” all will be numbered 1-500! With hand signed postcard! Now both CD and Vinyl are available !! You can order your copy from: Khalil Turk & Friends - TURKISH DELIGHT - VOLUME TWO New Release Date: 14th July 2023 CD Catalogue No: ESM378 Vinyl catalogue No: ESMV1011 Featuring musicians: Robin Mc Auley (MSG/Black Swan/solo) James LaBrie (Dream Theatre/solo) Dino Jelusick (JeluSick/Trans Siberian Orchestra/Dirty Shirley/ George Lynch) Marc Storace (Krokus/solo) Jeff Scott Soto (Talisman/ Of Apollo/Journey/Yngwie Malmsteen) Ralf Sheepers (Primal Fears/Gamma Ray) Jean Beauvoir (Crown of Thorn/ solo) Jerome Mazza (Pinnacle Point/Kansas) Dan Reed (Dan Reed Network) Tony Harnell (TNT/Morning Wood/Westworld/Starbreaker/solo) Mark Boals (Yngwie Malmsteen/Ted Nugent/Ring Of Fire) Jules Galli (Levara) Andrew Freeman (Great White/Last In Line) Lee Small (Phenomena/Lionheart) Mick Devine (Seven/The Roads) Paul Taylor (Winger/Alice Cooper/The Road) Kai Hansen (Helloween/Gamma Ray/Iron Savior/Unisonic) Paul Logue (Edens Curse/James LaBrie) Keith Atack (Atack/Bonnie Tyler) Mohammed Alsadeqi (Osiris) Billy Sheehan (Mr Big/The Flood/ Winery Dog) Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake/Thin Lizzy/Journey) Rudy Sarzo (Quite Riot/Ozzy Osborne) Wayne Banks (Saxon/Brazen Abbot/Robin Gibb) Takeaki Itoh (Pinnacle Point) Mike Slamer (Streets/Seventh Key/Steve Walsh/City Boy) Dennis Stratton (Iron Maiden/Lionheart) Laurence Archer (Grand Slam/Thin Lizzy/solo) Ben Cristo (Sister Of Mersey/Black Diamond) Fredrik Folkare (Unleashed/Eclipse) Peter Hallgren Tommy Denander (Steve Walsh/Radioactive/Overland/Chris Ousey) Steve Mann (MSG/Lionheart) Steve Morris (Ian Gillan Band/Heartland/Lonerider) Chris Childs (Thunder/Lonerider/Tyketto) Charlie Calv (Angel/Shotgun Symphony) Nick Foley (Atack) Michael (Hardline/Missing Persons/XYZ/Lita Ford) Kjell Haraldsson (Glen Hughes) Josh Devine (One Direction/Levara) Johan Kullberg (Hammerfall) Turkish Delights Vol 2 ‘Turkish Delights Volume Two 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, Hurricane, Lonerider 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 Fredrik Folkare (Eclipse), Peter Hallgren, Dan Reed (Dan Reed Network) Lee Small (Phenomena/Lionheart/Sweet), Steve Morris (Export/Ian Gillan/Heartland), Mike Slamer (City Boy/Steve Walsh/Seventh Key), Mick Devine (Seven), Steve Newman (Newman/Compass) and Tommy Denander (Radioactive/Steve Walsh) there’s also a list of musicians culled from Khalil’s contact book that, quite frankly, is VERY impressive.
