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Cicadas & Kitharas

by Berke Can Ozcan

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A few years ago I came by a book titled “Making Noise” by Hillel Schwartz. When the pandemic began it felt like it was the right time to start exploring this heavy book. In the very beginning there it was, a myth about a cicada and a kithara which struck me deep at heart and let me start working on new music again.

“There was once, wrote Asclepius, a god-favored kithara player who had a string break during a contest of music and song; the Mighty one, listening in, caused a cicada to light upon the kithara and restore the song by keeping the space where the string had been”.

Life happened and my paths crossed with three guitar players that inspired me with their music while I was growing up. Serdar Ateşer (the creator of the mysterious album titled “Avdet Seyri” back in 1998), Sarp Maden (who had a quartet named after a local southwestern breeze, Lodos, which published a cassette i listened to maybe a thousand times as a teenager) and Erkan Oğur (the white haired wise man who touched my heart eversince i first heard his magical piece of music “Purple Mountains”).

As Hillel Schwartz suggests; myths of creation and re-creation are sonic, whether cicada and kithara or boom, babble, brouhaha.

This music is an ode to “1901”, Serdar’s studio which was partially burnt down in fire last year. It’s a farewell to all the tapes full of good music that got burnt with it.

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released June 24, 2021

Mixed by Mahmut Albulak and Berke Can Özcan
Produced by Berke Can Özcan
Artwork by Elif Kayaman

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Berke Can Ozcan İstanbul, Turkey

He began as a drummer. He has founded and killed many bands. He wrote music, sang, played the drums and many other instruments within a variety of projects, recorded and produced albums, travelled and received acclaim, but you know, everything keeps changing. ... more

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