Anarya, by Ozan Tekin

Anarya

by Ozan Tekin

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1.	Gravity of the Past 03:43	info	buy track
2.	Irresistible Call of a Swift 04:28	info
3.	Flutter (Ballad of July) 04:17	info	buy track
4.	Sunsick 03:33	info
5.	No More Home 02:29	info	buy track
6.	An Intro, a Pause, an Ending 01:45	info
7.	Troubled Nest 03:37	info	buy track
8.	965 01:48	info	buy track
9.	The Fall 03:32	info
10.	Knots (Ballad of August) 02:24	info
11.	Life Blooms in Concrete 03:27	info	buy track
12.	Ode to Being Idle 03:39	info	buy track
13.	Lament for a Lost Kite 05:57	info
14.	Orange Jam 04:10	info

about

Cologne-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Ozan Tekin winds his musical journey back from Cologne to Adana with a long layover in Istanbul in his second studio album “Anarya”, a triangle of migration drawn by musical notation and performance. The album is composed of 14 tracks, and each one of them is a sound story that echoes Tekin’s distinct memories from these three cities. “Anarya” is the end product of a process in which Tekin and his upright piano co-tuned each other. It is an artistic representation of the idiosyncratic phenomenon called stimmung in German; a spectrum of tones, moods and atmospheres expressed in personal and instrumental terms.

The transposed narrative of “Anarya” sprung up from its roots when Tekin came across a 66-years old worn-out piano in Cologne. Mesmerized by its unique sound, he felt the urge to make recordings with this piano before it fell apart. After spending months learning its mechanics, Tekin recorded his second album with the old upright piano he repaired and brought back to life.

The remarkably catchy melodies and immersive melancholic arpeggios with uneasy changes in time signatures set up the atmospheric stage of “Anarya I” in the first five tracks. The gloomy synths of the 80s, the lush strings, and room tones of “Anarya I” are followed by the next six tracks of the album from “Anarya II” that revisit Tekin’s emotional and episodic memories in Istanbul. His unaffected absorption into piano music in the first two parts of “Anarya” is followed by his coyishly joyful tracks later in the album: an idle “ode”, a lost “lament”, and a colorful “jam”. These three tracks blend the neoclassical, jazz, and ambient sounds of Cologne and Istanbul with sentiments of childhood and rascality in Adana.

The piano conversations of Tekin throughout “Anarya” are accompanied by his analogue synthesizers, vocals, bass guitar, Hanitra Wagner’s violin, and Berke Can Özcan’s drums, percussions, and vibraphone, and Emre Malikler’s mix and mastering. The sounds of collaboration go deeper and louder as the album’s tracks move forward and Tekin’s memories go backwards simultaneously. Anarya gitmek (“to go back”) is a vernacular saying from Tekin’s hometown Adana and Tekin makes a figurative attempt to migrate backwards via the compositions that came into being in his most recent home, Cologne. Having been born out of an upright piano, Tekin’s music has instrumental origins. However, due to his constantly mutating sense of belonging, his melodies can’t be pinpointed to any specific heimat.

Tekin’s continuously transforming music invites his listeners to explore and experience his music on their own terms. Tekin’s personal memories that shape “Anarya” is open to new forms of sonic exploration and rearrangement. This openness lies in Tekin’s unwavering faith in not to be entrenched in any single genre. The immersive intimacy radiating from the collaborative piano conversations in “Anarya” is an invitation signature to his music’s current and future followers.

Text by Mehmet Ekinci

“the inclusiveness and warmth of the music is contemplative, yet light and refreshing, all in one breath” - Mike Gates in ukvibe - 5/5

DJ support from: Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6 Music), Toshio Matsuura (Worldwide FM), Alex (KEXP), Groovement (Reform, Manchester)

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released May 27, 2022

All music written and produced by Ozan Tekin

drums & percussion (tracks 12, 13 & 14), vibraphone (track 13) by Berke Can Özcan
violins (tracks 7, 9 & 11) by Hanitra Wagner

mixing & mastering by Emre Malikler
artwork and design by Başak Ünal

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Ozan Tekin Cologne, Germany

Ozan Tekin is a Cologne-based composer and producer. His latest album “Anarya”, a three-part compilation of his piano works, was released in May 2022. His debut album “Pillars of Salt” was released by NOORDEN in October 2019. In addition to his solo works, Tekin composes music and makes sound design for theatre, film and TV in Germany and Turkey. ... more

discography

Anarya

May 2022
Anarya II

Mar 2022
Anarya I

May 2021
Pillars of Salt

Oct 2019
Ayrık

Jan 2017

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