This song was born in İstanbul, at the edge of a sleepless dawn, on a day when I went out not for solace, but for a sign.
A mischosen morning became a path, a path became a drum, and a drum became a doorway.

A stranger’s hands tested the frame and declared it alive.
I took it home and played the only rhythms I knew.
Then something older than memory moved through the room
and these words arrived without knocking.

A song about the barren soil of the heart,
the seeds planted long before us,
and the quiet truth that, when everything else falls away,
nothing remains
but becoming.

Recorded in its first breath with Che and Oğuz,
before we knew what it wanted to be.

Olmaktan Başka - ilk çalım / demo

Produced by Kerem Akdag
Mixed and Recorded by Kaan Duzarat at Analog Kultur

The track you're listening to is the first and only take and the lyrics were freestyled by Deniz Balkanli.

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