Playing Turkish Rock for a Good Cause in Guadalajara Mexico My name is Ali Deniz Ozkan. I am a nomad rock musician living on the road, mainly in Latin America, since 2018. My one-man band is called Black Sea Storm. On March 10th, 2023, ONCO Y VITA AC, Ojos de la...
After finishing the Sonora Desert Recordings in Hermosillo, I started a little race against my Mexican visa’s expiration date. I had about three weeks to go up to the US border then head south to make it to Guatemala. After visiting San Carlos, I first went to Tijuana...
Leaving Tijuana On March 5th, 2021, I woke up in Tijuana last time to head further south in Baja California. It was a Black Sea Storm release date of a song called “Ayrıldım Ben,” one of the singles I recorded in Hermosillo with Kacho Olivares before coming to Baja...
For me, Tijuana was a different type of destination than the places I’ve been visiting on this nomadic journey. I lived 11 and a half years in San Diego from September 1999 to March 2011. San Diego and Tijuana are two adjacent cities separated by a political border...
A couple of months earlier, it took me 15 hours to go from Hermosillo to Mexicali. This time around, I planned to go from Guaymas to Tijuana. Not only was I starting the trip further south of Hermosillo, but I was also aiming to go further west of Mexicali. The good...
