There’s not much I can really say about the latest name to be part of this long-running alphabetical series.
Yusuf Azak is an Aberdonian of Turkish descent who lives in Glasgow. There were three albums in a relatively period of time in the last decade – Turn On The Long Wire (2010), Go Native (2012) and Peace In The Underworld (2014). The first two came out on Song, By Toad Records and the last of them on Gerry Love Records.
The record label publicity associated with the third album said:-
It’s an album of off-kilter folk pop songs with Yusuf’s unique gruff-but-sweet vocals. It’s also a more luxurious sound than his other records, with his excellent songwriting and acoustic guitar skills filled out with drums, drum machines, keyboards, electronics and more.
I’ve only one track on the hard drive, and it came courtesy of a Song, By Toad sampler released back in 2013
mp3: Yusuf Azak – Go Native
The short title track of the second album – it comes in at just under two minutes. I did try to get some more recent info on the singer/songwriter, but all travelled paths came to dead ends.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 