Khalil Turk & Friends - TURKISH DELIGHT III
New Release Date: 7th November 2025
CD Catalogue No: ESM405
Featuring musicians:
Steve Walsh: Vocals (Kansas/Streets)
Glenn Hughes: Vocals (Deep Purple)
James LaBrie: Vocals (Dream Theatre/solo)
Steve Overland: Vocals (FM/Lonerider)
Kent Hilli: Vocals (Giant/Perfect Plan)
Dino Jelusick: Vocals (Jelusick/Trans Siberian Orchestra/Dirty Shirley/ George Lynch)
Ralf Sheepers: Vocals (Primal Fears/Gamma Ray)
Craig Brooks: Vocals (Touch)
Dan Reed: Vocals (Dan Reed Network)
Mark Boals: Bcaking vocals and bass (Yngwie Malmsteen/Ted Nugent/Ring Of Fire)
Andrew Freeman:Vocals (Great White/Last In Line)
Mick Box: Lead guitars (Uriah Heep)
Kee Marcello: Lead guitars
Marty Friedman:Lead guitars
Howard Leese: Lead guitar (Heart/Bad Company)
Mike Slamer: Lead and rythmm guitars (Streets/Seventh Key/Steve Walsh/City Boy) Doug Aldrich: Lead guitar (Whitesnake/ The Dead Daisies/Hurricane/Dio)
Mitch Perry: Lead and rhythm guitars (MSG)
Ivan Keller: Lead guitar (Jelusick)
Jimmy Westerlund: Lead guitars, keyboards (One Desire)
Laurence Archer : Lead guitar (Grand Slam/Thin Lizzy/solo)
Fredrik Folkare: Lead and rhythm guitars (Unleashed/Eclipse)
Peter Hallgren: Lead and rhythm guitars
Robby Boebel RIP: Lead and rhythm guitars (Ray Of Light/Frontline/Phantom 5)
Vinny Appice: Drums (Last In Line/Black Sabbath/Dio)
Ian Paice: Drums (Deep Purple)
Josh Devine: Drums (One Direction/Levara/Sign Of The Wolf) Johan Kullberg: Drums (Hammerfall)
Chuck Wright: Bass (House of Lords/Giuffria)
Steve Mann: Keyboards and rhythm guitar (MSG/Lionheart) Nick Foley: Keybaards and Oragan (Atack)
Jeff Pilson: Bass (Foreinger/Black Swan/Lynch Mob)
Adam Wakeman: Keyboards and Hammond (Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne)
David Ragsdale: Violin (Kansas)
Wayne Banks: Bass (Saxon/Brazen Abbot/Robin Gibb)
Takeaki Itoh: Bass (Pinnacle Point)
Robert Sall: Lead and rhythm Guitars (Work of Art/W.E.T/Overland)
Mark Mangold: Keyboards (Keys/Touch/Drive She Said)
Matteo Filippini: Rhythm guitar (Moonstone Project)
Barend Courbois: Bass (MSG/Micheael Schenker Group)
Bodo Schopf: Drums (MSG/Micheael Schenker Group)
Rocky Newton: Bass (Lionheart/Grand Slam)
Gregg Fox: Keyboards (Renaissance Rock Orchestra)
Michael T.Ross: Keyboards (Hardline/Missing Persons/XYZ/Lita Ford)
Kjell Haraldsson: Keyboards (Glen Hughes)
Alessandro Mori: Drums (Moonstone Project)
Nik Mazzucconi: Bass (Moonstone Project)
Track Listening:
1. A Moment of Truth 5:34 (Featuring James Labrie)
2. Out of the Dark 5:05 (Featuring Harry Hess)
3. City of Lights 5:15 (Featuring Steve Walsh/Jerome Mazza)
4. The Voice Inside 4:32 (Featuring Steve Overland/Kee Marcello)
5. In the Shadows of the Night 4:44 (Featuring Dan Reed)
6. Bag of Your Bones 4:28 (Featuring Dino Jelusick/Jimmy Westurland/Ivan Keller)
7. Chasing the Dream 5:07 (Featuring Robin McAuley/Howard Leese)
8. History 5:07 (featuring Jerome Mazza/Mick Box)
9. I am the Night 7:56 (Featuring Andrew Freeman/Doug Aldrich)
10. Rose in Hell 6:59 (Featuring Glenn Hughes/Mike Slamer)
11. Closer to Heaven 3:55 (Featuring Kent Hilli)
12. The Nero Decree 5:28 (Featuring Marty Friedman/Ralf Sheepers)
13. Turn Your Head Around 4:00 (Featuring Mick Devine)
14. Wreckage 4:13 (Featuring Craig Brooks/Doug Aldrich
15. outro (instr .47)
Produced by Khalil Turk for Escape Music Ltd
Mixed and Mastered by Fredrik Folkare
Artwork Design by Eric Philippe
Turkish Delights Vol III
‘Turkish Delights Volume Three to 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 thirty 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 new material from the pens of Fredrik Folkare (Eclipse), Peter Hallgren, Steve Mann (MSG/Lionheart/OuseyMann) Steve Overland FM/Lonerider), Robin McAuley (MSG/Black Swan), Mick Devine, Chris Childs (Thunder/Lonerider), 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 Vol 3’ to throw at you include Steve Walsh (Kansas), James LaBrie (Dream Theatre/solo) Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) Howard Lesse (Heart/Bad Company), Billy Sheehan (Talas/David Lee Roth/Mr Big), Ralf Sheepers (Primal Fears/Gamma Ray), Jeff Pilson (Foreigner/Black Swan), Kent Hilli, Chris Childs (Thunder), Kee Marcello (Europe) Andrew Freeman (Great White/Last In Line), Mick Devine (7), Steve Mann (MSG/Lionheart), Josh Devine (One Direction/Levara), Robin Mc Auley (Grand Prix/MSG), Dino Jelusick (JeluSick/Trans Siberian Orchestra/Dirty Shirley/ George Lynch), Jerome Mazza (Pinnacle Point/Steve Walsh/solo), Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake/The Dead Daisies), Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath/Dio/Last In Line), Chuck Wright (House of Lords) Laurence Archer (Grand Slam/Thin Lizzy/solo) and Rudy Sarzo (Quite Riot/Ozzy Osborne). 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!