Release Date: August 25th, 2023 Sinaloa, Mexico
İsmimi Bulutlardan Aldım:
This new album from Black Sea Storm was entirely made in Mexico in a nomadic fashion. The writing and recording process occurred in Monterrey, Culiacán, Mazatlán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, and Querétaro. The band’s challenge in making this album consisted of making a full rock band-sounding record, on the road with limited musical equipment.
In English, the album’s title translates as “I was named after the clouds.” Believing perhaps music comes to us from the universe and takes a journey in the musician’s subconscious before materializing itself through musical instruments. Traveling the world while making music triggers inner travel, which creates a perfect situation to make original music connected to the soul and the outside world. Overcoming the logistic challenge of recording on the go made this album possible and added excitement to the ongoing adventure.
The album was horizontally written and recorded, meaning that all the song backbones were written simultaneously, and all the trackings of different instruments were layered across all songs. More material was left out than kept on the album, embracing the idea of always leaning toward what excites us musically. Not forcing, letting grow what grows naturally, similar to how vegetation grows in nature.
Since “İsmimi Bulutlardan Aldım” was recorded with the touring gear. An acoustic guitar and an SM57 mic were the main components of the recordings. The acoustic guitar as the core element gives this album a unique acoustic progressive rock sound.
About Black Sea Storm:
Black Sea Storm started as a side project in 2002 near the Mexican border in San Diego, California, USA. Its founder Ali Deniz Ozkan at the time was actively playing bass guitar in touring bands in the United States. Black Sea Storm remained a recording project for several years, regularly releasing albums. In 2011 the project became Ali’s sole musical outlet. The band moved to Buenos Aires in 2017 and embraced the nomadic life in 2018. The live performances started the same year, playing on Peru, Chile, and Argentina streets as a street musician.
In 2019 Black Sea Storm played its first official show in Yucatán, Mexico. Since then, the band has performed nearly 50 shows, mainly in Latin America. In 2022 Black Sea Storm went to tour Türkiye and performed 21 concerts in this country. Since November 2022, Black Sea Storm has returned to Mexico to play some shows and record “İsmimi Bulutlardan Aldım.”
Over the years, Black Sea Storm has released over a dozen albums, EPs, and singles, all available on major global music platforms.
About Ali Deniz Ozkan:
Ali Deniz Ozkan started his rock career in the mid-90s as the bass player of the Swiss indie rock act Swoan. In the ’00s, he was a founding member of Channing Cope, a power rock trio from San Diego, California. He has also performed as a stage musician with the Kenseth Thibideau Band. Since 2011 Ali Deniz Ozkan has solely been focusing on Black Sea Storm, playing all instruments, doing all the recordings himself, and performing live as a solo act.
Throughout his rock career, Ali Deniz Ozkan had the opportunity to share the stage with renowned rock artists such as Mogwai, Royal Trux, Shannon Wright, The American Analog Set, Swell, dEus, The Fu**ing Champs, The Album Leaf, Sleeping People, The Dresden Dolls, The Godfathers, Drugstore, Rob Crow, Damien Jurado, Moholy-Nagy (ex- Tarentel members.) Talkdemonic, Danava, and Carson McWhirter.