“Love doesn’t ask where you’re from, it asks where you want to go and it can be the most brilliant and fulfilling journey, together.”
“Once in July, Before our goodbye, I’m still lost in time” poetically starts the melodic single, that is due to be released on the 7th of October 2016 ( on “Better Call Rob” label) and is the doing of the Hamburg based band “Kraków Loves Adana”, with Deniz Cicek behind the Songwriting & Lyrics, Voice, Guitar & Piano and Robert Heitmann on Guitar & Piano. We had a little chat with Deniz about heartbreak and the exclusive photo shooting they had in a rundown hotel that turned out to be a magic experience.
What´s the story behind your band name “Kraków Loves Adana”?
When I grew up, your nationality always was kind of a big deal. I often felt uncomfortable about it and sometimes like I had to deny mine in order to be accepted. But when I fell in love, none of it mattered. When I wrote music, none of it mattered either. That is the essence of our band name. Most people don’t even recognize at first that our band name refers to two cities because of the word “Loves” between them and that is the whole point – to deconstruct and rebuild the meaning of identity. Love doesn’t ask where you’re from, it asks where you want to go and it can be the most brilliant and fulfilling journey, together.
Is “Once in July” about a real love story that happened to one of you or it´s fiction?
All our songs have a personal meaning, but like most of them, the reality of “Once in July” lies between the lines.
The best way to get over a heartbreak?
The best way to get over it is to get into it, not to endure it but to live with it. You can only love as much as you can suffer. Try to be grateful that you are capable of feelings, no matter if good or bad because most people just exist.
And to be honest, extreme emotions don’t last forever, neither the bad nor the good ones (unfortunately).
The one thing that I learned about loss is that with each day passing by it makes you stronger and wiser so make sure that you create something out of it because that is your power.
“The one thing that I learned about loss is that with each day passing by it makes you stronger and wiser so make sure that you create something out of it because that is your power.”
For the photo shooting you chose a rundown hotel, in Hamburg, a place that seems like nothing and a bit odd.”But against our expectations the inside had its own magic. We want the viewer to try to look behind the facade, through the discomfort and into the core, to be at war with the obvious.” When was the last time in your life that you met someone odd, where you initially forgot to look behind the facade?
Honestly, I can’t remember. I am a strong introvert and also very empathetic so it’s not that much about meeting someone odd, it’s more about being odd myself. That scares off some people in the first place who don’t seem to get my nature.
The music you listened to in your teenage years?
A lot Bright Eyes, Morrissey and Elliott Smith.
Your future goals?
To build a good name and create good work. The third album has already been recorded, my next goal is to write songs for a Horror-movie inspired EP which is due to Halloween ’17.
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Single release”Once In July” on 07.10.2016/ record label Better Call Rob
Deniz Cicek Songwriting & Lyrics, Voice, Guitar & Piano
Robert Heitmann Guitar & Piano
All images by Anna Wegelin
