GNZY

From a young age GNZY was surrounded by intriguing physical and spoken narratives. Compliments to the ancient Greeks and the collective pain and memory of the diverse peoples who occupied the land he grew up on, he was allured by storytelling at a very young age. These experiences informed his design thinking as an architect, but he often longed for a medium of creative expression that was less restrictive. Eventually, these feelings inspired him to write his first collection of songs on the train on his way to work.

In late 2020 in the midst of the Covid out-break he recorded a demo for his first album ‘Doku, Koku, Sen, Ben, Biz.’ in his spare bedroom in Melbourne, Australia - which he would eventually use to entice Can Kuman and Batuhan Polat. Over the course of the next few months the trio started working on the production of DKSBB. With each member bringing their own musical flair, a genre-busting collection of tracks started to come to life. Across three intensive camp sessions in Istanbul they recorded and arranged the basic instrumentals. Polat, an established singer songwriter, improvised most of the guitars and some of the other instrumentals during these sessions and Kuman, a composer with a particular interest in experimental jazz and electro-acoustics found creative avenues to reflect these techniques throughout the album. The songs were then produced, mixed and mastered by Kuman in his home studio, through a remote, collaborative and creative process.