Ozan Tekin

Ozan Tekin is a Turkish-born composer and producer from Cologne, Germany. His latest album "Anarya," a three-part compilation of his piano works in which he draws his projections across neoclassical, jazz and ambient music, was released in May 2022. Tekin also releases singer-songwriter songs under the pseudonym Seyrek Rifat and composes music and does sound design for theater, performance, film and television in Germany and Turkey. Tekin wraps up his musical journey back from Cologne to his hometown Adana with a long stopover in Istanbul in "Anarya" with 14 tracks, and each of them is a solid story reflecting Tekin's different memories of these three cities. "Anarya" is the final product of a process in which Tekin and his piano are matched.
It is an artistic representation of the idiosyncratic phenomenon of mood in German; a spectrum of tones, moods and atmospheres expressed in personal and instrumental terms. Born from an upright piano, Tekin's music has instrumental origins. The remarkably catchy melodies, haunting melancholic arpeggios and uneasy time changes set the atmospheric stage of Tekin's music. However, due to his ever-changing sense of belonging, his melodies cannot be assigned to any particular home.