Chicago Singer/Songwriter | Multi-Instrumentalist | Composer
Full-length album: It’s Not Me | It’s Used released 2.20.2020

Cobey.’s music carries the torch into a new era of indie-pop, and brings together all of your favorite alternative music influences. His new album, ‘It’s Not Me | It’s Used’, nods to the likes of Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, and Tame Impala, while also adding the pop sensibilities of Billie Eilish and Maggie Rogers. His songs carve out a new musical path and invite any indie-pop enthusiast to enter.

It’s Not Me | It’s Used atmospherically binds light and dark using sonic experimentation that eerily mirrors the complex human experience. Cobey.’s songs interweave melancholic and hopeful arrangements by using intimate lyrics, polyphonic melodies, disheveled entrancing rhythms, and harmonious vocals.

When listened to from beginning to end, the album is a gripping emotional arc that walks you through the dense layers of his personal story, giving listeners an inside perspective into processing pain and using it as a tool for growth.

It's Not Me | It's Used was written and recorded by Cobey Bienert in his bedroom in Chicago. All songs were mixed, mastered, and produced by Neil Strauch in Chicago, IL. 

Special Thanks to: 
Artist Management: Matthew Boll
Marketing & Visual: McKenzie Hanson

Gokalp Ergen (born April 27, 1977) is a Turkish singer,songwriter, music composer,multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He began his music career as a guitarist at the age of 13.He wrote many of his well known songs including Lacuna ,when he was 16.One year later, he started teaching guitar in Local Music Academies. At that time he started practising other instruments such as classical guitar,bass guitar,piano and drums. As a vocalist ,songwriter , composer and producer Gokalp Ergen has led rock project The Climb beginning in 1996 and ending in 2007.The Climb released two albums;The Climb in 1999 and Principia in 2002.He also played drums,bass guitar and electric guitar in Principia. Gokalp Ergen was previously associated with musicians and bands such as N-Closer as a vocalist and producer. He composed the song for the soundtrack to Kolpaçino Bomba in 2011.He composed classical music arrangements for Armory Exhibition Hall in the Topkapi Palace in 2011.He also works as a vocal coach for Turkish singers. He has over 200 songs including unreleased ones, in genres such as classical,electronic and rock music. In 2011 he joined the legandary Turkish Heavy Metal Band Pentagram aka Mezarkabul as the Lead Singer and now they are in studio recording their first album together to be released in 2012. _____________________________________________________________________________ 



Vokalist,şarkı sözü yazarı,besteci,multi-enstrumanist ve müzik prodüktörü Gökalp Ergen,27 Nisan 1977'de Kocaeli'nde doğdu. Müzik kariyerine 13 yaşında gitar çalarak başlayan müzisyen, aralarında" Lacuna" adlı şarkısının da yer aldığı en çok tanınan şarkılarından bazılarını 16 yaşındayken besteledi. 1994 yılında yerel müzik akademilerinde gitar dersleri vermeye başladığı dönemde klasik gitar,bas gitar ,davul ve piyano gibi farklı enstrumanlara da yoğunlaşmaya başladı. 1996 yılında kurduğu, vokalist, gitarist , besteci ve prodüktör olarak yer aldığı The Climb ile , 2007 yılında grup dağılana kadar iki albüm yayımlamıştır. İlk albümleri "The Climb" 1999, ikinci albümleri "Principia" 2002 senesinde yayımlanmış;"Principia" albümünde Gökalp Ergen vokallerin yanısıra bazı parçalarda bas gitar, elektro gitar ve davul da çalmıştır. Ana projesi The Climb dışında,prodüktörlüğünü yaptığı N-Closer grubunda vokalistliği de üstlenen Gökalp Ergen,2000'den 2010 yılına kadar birçok farklı sanatçı ve grupla prodüktör,aranjör ve besteci olarak çalışmıştır. 2011 yılında "Kolpaçino Bomba" filmi için "Never Think About You"adlı şarkıyı bestelemiş,aynı sene Topkapı Sarayı Silah bölümü için klasik müzik aranjeleri yapmıştır.Yayımlanmayanlar dahil klasik müzik,elektronik müzik ve rock müzik tarzlarında 200'ün üstünde bestesi olan sanatçı aynı zamanda vokal koçu olarak da çalışmalarını sürdürmektedir. 2011 yılında Türk Heavy Metal Efsanesi Pentagram aka Mezarkabul'e vokalist olarak katılan Gökalp Ergen şu anda Pentagramla ilk albümü için stüdyoda... 

East London based producer & DJ.
Indie Dance, Nu Disco, Deep House, Electronica & Downtempo meets the sounds of magical Istanbul.

The Nighted Nations is an Ethereal,Shoegaze,Post Grunge,Industrial and Dark Wave trio from Istanbul,Turkey. It consists of Imge Celepçi,Ufuk Evcimen and Gökalp Ergen.

Long ago there was a boy who went commercial fishing with my Father, leaving the safety of the Monterey Bay (California) and off into the wilds of the Pacific Ocean. Always humming melodies that got stuck in my Dad’s head, it became clear while growing up I had a knack for melodies. After many ocean journeys, a life amongst the saltiest of the saltiest sailors, sharks, mermaids and even near death experiences at sea myself, I was inspired to write songs about all life as I experienced it on my own. The lyrics would have a naturally nautical leaning heavily salted with experience on the ocean and up and down the West Coast. After some years singing as frontman for a melodic punk band, I searched long and hard for a crew and retinue of mermaids that took a decade to find and the years payed off, even after a quick visit to Davey Jone’s locker and back! Now that boy is a man or rather a musical captain as it were, The Captain, now setting sail for high seas musical adventure, should you dare to join Me!  For fans of Pixies, Weezer, Nirvana, Jimmy Eat World, blink-182, Green Day, Queen, The Cars, Blondie, Twenty One Pilots and more.

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