Given the name Ataşehir — a dense, largely unremarkable district of Istanbul, chosen perhaps for its deliberate ordinariness — this 2021 release treats patience as its central material. Slow-moving tones accumulate without drama, each shift arriving only when it has earned its place. The mood is neither melancholic nor hopeful, but suspended somewhere between, the way a city sounds at 5am when it hasn't quite decided to wake up. Small details surface in the texture and disappear again before you can name them. It's easy to miss one while following another.
appears in: reflection