How do your different backgrounds and musical
talents complement each other?
ChanCé comes from a very old school form of Turkish
music. If I have to summarize, ChanCé performs with
large choruses, orchestras, and writes powerful songs
that tackle real (almost controversial) issues, about
how different religions and opposing cultures can
come together in peace. I write about the forests and
the oceans, and our raw yet often overlooked
connection to it in everything from sex, passion, and
naturism. Somehow in there, there is middle ground.
We found our songs are more about the bigger picture,
and less situational. Why not tackle the big issues,
even in music I say. We just found we wanted reality
in writing music, and this honesty and organic
approach was probably the middle ground that brought
us together.
You write about a lot of meaningful topics...
Yeah, on the surface they are, but actually it all comes
back to my common theme. Even in “Gallipoli” and
even in “Ordinary”. “Ordinary” was about Turkish
people being kept under the thumb by their
Government, and not having the freedom to even kiss
in public. It all comes back to who we are and our
place on the earth, which is very much connected to
the earth. We’re natural human beings and you’ve got
to keep reminding yourself of that, and that’s what I do
with my songs... I just keep telling people the whole
time that we are part of the earth like our animal
friends, and we need to respect the animals and
understand that these feelings that we have are not
unnatural, and that everything which is natural inside
overpowers anything unnatural via the Government for
example, telling us what to do. It goes back to how we
are as animals, people forget that. We’re connected to
the sun, we’re connected to the moon, we’re connected