Ölümle Yaşam Arasında - Live Session

Each line is like cold smoke from a fire - it pulls, stings, leaves a smell on the skin. It seems like there was a home, warmth, hands - and suddenly only echoes, photographs, and memories that scratch deeper than any words. Words are like icy fingers sliding down your neck, while your heart is still trying to warm up. There is no tragedy here in its pure form - more of a weary realisation: no one can surpass the pain of losing the one who was closest to you.

This music sounds like a conversation on the border between life and death, between farewell and habit. The sadness in it is thick, mixed with philosophical irony: ‘this is how we live, philosophers in exile, exiled from our own feelings.’ And in this alienation, there is still a faint glimmer of ‘still’ - not hope, but rather the habit of surviving, even when it seems that there is no longer any reason to survive.

Lyrics and music: Akif Alkan, Ahmet Hatipoglu, Zen-G

Arrangement: Can VS and Engincan Onar

Vocals: Akif Alkan, Zen-G

Drums: Halef Binici

Guitars: Yusuf Kurtucu

Bass guitar: Cenk Siner

Mixing and mastering: Can VS

Mixing and mastering assistant: Engincan Onar

Recording: Jan V.S., Engincan Onar

Drum recording: Pürr Records

Guitar, bass guitar, vocal recording: Sidechain Studios

Director: Semstellar

Director of photography: Iskender Cem Demirtas

Assistant director: Jan Narin

Lighting manager: Mahmut Turan

Styling: Bedirhan Tasci.

Post-production: Ramka

Set design: Bilal Çiman

DIT: Kadir Kan-Arabacı

Photography: Onur Pulluç

Behind-the-scenes photography: Ömer Köze

Production and management: GD Management / Güney Doğan

Label: Sidechain Records

Assistant Artist: Adem Bayram

Technical Supervisor: Kaan Çapar