Some Songs

Here are some songs that I keep replaying 🎶

Sometimes it can’t always be about politics, tech, or “world-changing” projects.
Nowadays I’ve been trying to pause for a bit, to listen more, think less, and just exist in the background noise of good music and small moments in my “canım annem’s” house, especially these days, as it’s been more than a hundred days since Fatih Altaylı was imprisoned. I used to start every morning with his videos. These are some songs that have been looping in that space, enjoy!

Lately (big lie, it’s been almost two years), I’ve been looping “Euphoria” by Kadebostany, Barış Demirel, and Serepocaiontas, especially the Turkish version by Barış Demirel (“Kakülünde Ak Oldum”). I still remember the day I heard it with Elif at Beymen Club; we were looking at coats, and I just froze for a second like, “Aaaaa, isn’t this the ‘Kakülünde Ak Oldum’?!”

Of course, I couldn’t skip “Hashish” by Ibrahim Maalouf from his Diasporas album, the one with the album photo hanging in my room. My lovely “İbrahim Ağabey” and his trumpet feel like a long sigh at 2 a.m.

And “Lili Marlen” by Ahmet Kaya, a song I still can’t fully memorize (like every song I know). Sorry, Ahmet Ağabey…