"Haven’t seen you for ages / How are you / Still burning with the pages..."
Sometimes an artful song dips you into a surreal state of awe. This is the case (for me) of "Follow The Voice" by Hamburg based dream duo Kraków Loves Adana lead by singer and producer Deniz Cicek. This track is simple in concept but if it would of been executed incorrectly could of been another white cap in a vast musical sea. What makes it special is not only Cicek's vocal aesthetic, that feels glacial on one hand but hypnotic in the other, but the cold calmy addictive atmosphere glued together by an incredible addictive hook. As synths anchors float over a pulsating door knock of a beat there is that keyboard lick that runs throughout, staying the same but seems to change shape against different chord patterns. I love when artists use this meditative placement. It is something that Joey Santiago (Pixies) has mastered, has codified.
The Official Video creates it's own orbit like the song, directed by the band in collaboration with director of photography Philip Jestädt and additional art design by Hannes & Johannes. Of the song and Video Cicek has this to offer:
“Follow The Voice” is back! And with it comes an album announcement. This song has been cursed from the start. We had to shoot the video twice. The release was postponed multiple times. In the end it became a song I never expected or wanted it to be. And then it was deleted from the world. Today, I am breaking this curse - the original version of Follow The Voice is out at last - a song that obviously developed a life of its own. And even though it disappeared for a while, its essence was always with me."
Kraków Loves Adana will release their sixth studio album "Follow The Voice" on November 12th 2021.
Kraków Loves Adana will release their sixth studio album "Follow The Voice" on November 12th 2021.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://krakowlovesadana.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/krakowlovesadana/
https://www.instagram.com/krakowlovesadana/
https://www.youtube.com/user/krakowlovesadana
Kraków Loves Adana formed in 2006 after eyeing each other for months at the same nightclubs in Germany. The group’s guitar-driven electronic ballads echo dream pop with a melancholic edge.
After sending out demo CDs in art print envelopes to music magazines and building a first audience on Myspace, their music gained the attention of producer Johann Scheerer, resulting in the publication of the duo’s debut full length “Beauty” and their sophomore record “Interview” on Scheerer’s Clouds Hill label. Their following two albums “Call Yourself New” and “Songs After The Blue” were produced by Çiçek and released on the band’s own label.
In 2019 Kraków Loves Adana was in direct support of Chromatics on stage for the European leg of their Double Exposure World tour.
“Darkest Dreams”, the pair’s self-released fifth studio album, offers a closer look into a world where dreams and reality collide. With the new material Kraków Loves Adana give meaning to exploring and embracing your own darkness and giving in to your darkest fantasies and desires - even if it means to lose yourself in the process. The synthesized arrangements paired with Deniz Çiçek’s contralto built an intriguing soundscape that draws from the singer’s own vivid dreams and nightmares. Recorded and produced over a span of two years by Çiçek in the duo’s own home studio in Hamburg, Germany, the ten songs offer a variety of dream pop and dark wave.
Following the self-release of “Darkest Dreams”, Kraków Loves Adana released the “A Night To Remember” EP around Halloween including a double feature video. The band hints that the EP exists in the same universe as the above-mentioned album, making it a spin-off feature that adds to the full story to be explored.
Kraków Loves Adana will release their sixth studio album "Follow The Voice" on November 12th 2021 and shared the titled track including a self-directed video.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://krakowlovesadana.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/krakowlovesadana/
https://www.instagram.com/krakowlovesadana/
https://www.youtube.com/user/krakowlovesadana
Kraków Loves Adana formed in 2006 after eyeing each other for months at the same nightclubs in Germany. The group’s guitar-driven electronic ballads echo dream pop with a melancholic edge.
After sending out demo CDs in art print envelopes to music magazines and building a first audience on Myspace, their music gained the attention of producer Johann Scheerer, resulting in the publication of the duo’s debut full length “Beauty” and their sophomore record “Interview” on Scheerer’s Clouds Hill label. Their following two albums “Call Yourself New” and “Songs After The Blue” were produced by Çiçek and released on the band’s own label.
In 2019 Kraków Loves Adana was in direct support of Chromatics on stage for the European leg of their Double Exposure World tour.
“Darkest Dreams”, the pair’s self-released fifth studio album, offers a closer look into a world where dreams and reality collide. With the new material Kraków Loves Adana give meaning to exploring and embracing your own darkness and giving in to your darkest fantasies and desires - even if it means to lose yourself in the process. The synthesized arrangements paired with Deniz Çiçek’s contralto built an intriguing soundscape that draws from the singer’s own vivid dreams and nightmares. Recorded and produced over a span of two years by Çiçek in the duo’s own home studio in Hamburg, Germany, the ten songs offer a variety of dream pop and dark wave.
Following the self-release of “Darkest Dreams”, Kraków Loves Adana released the “A Night To Remember” EP around Halloween including a double feature video. The band hints that the EP exists in the same universe as the above-mentioned album, making it a spin-off feature that adds to the full story to be explored.
Kraków Loves Adana will release their sixth studio album "Follow The Voice" on November 12th 2021 and shared the titled track including a self-directed video.
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