Water and Other Elements

2021

Bülent Somay comes up with an album in 2021, “Water and Other Elements,” a collection of songs he had written between 1993-1995. Sometimes things take time. A singer-songwriter since 1970’s, over the years he studied and probed English Language and Literature, Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies.

He credits me for motivating him to make his own album; you cannot motivate someone ex nihilo. In his book, Song Reader, he says about poetry: “If you believe you have something to say to people, then you write.” The selection of songs here are from a man of almost-40 at the time; that man is 65 years old now. I just noticed that he believed the time has come for him to publish his songs.

Tolga Tüzün

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