Biography
Formation
Can Özbay and Osman Yaldız first met at Dokuz Eylül University in 2009. The pair spent the summer recording the first album Purple Sky. Serkan Sandıkkaya, a classmate of Özbay and Yaldız, later joined the group. On September 2009, while Özbay was working on an Artificial Intelligence software, he and Elijah Wood met on a webpage, and started working together on the same software. After a year, both Özbay, and Wood wrote a software which enables the band to stream live audio to other band members' computers. With the new software, Wood joined the band, as the drummer.
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Purple Sky (2010)
Özbay and Yaldız started recording the first album at their own studio. After a long summer full of purple skies, they decided to name the album Purple Sky. To go with the feel of Purple Sky, they named the songs as star constellations. Soon, Serkan Sandıkkaya joined the band and improved the album's mood. Most of the songs have acrostic lyrics, all the songs are named after the neighbor star constellations of Coma Berenices. Purple Sky's artwork was designed by Nurcan Durmaz. Purple Sky was released globally on St. Valentines Day 2010.
Heart Broken (2010)
Band's second release, Heart Broken's music video has been released globally on April 23, and the song took it's places in the music stores on June 14. The music video was directed by Hande Zerkin, who is an old friend of Özbay.
Imagine (Cover) (2010)
On September 2010, after Wood joined the band, quartet decided to make a cover song. After realizing that the year being the 70th birthday of the legendary musician John Lennon, Özbay and Sandıkkaya started working on a cover version of Imagine. Quartet wanted to officially celebrate John Lennon's birthday, and they have started working on a music video of their cover version of Imagine. The New York footage was shot by Elijah Wood himself. Wood recorded the drums in his own drum studio and sent the audio-visual material to Özbay. The Izmir footage was shot and directed by Beril Asutay, a friend of Can Özbay from Dokuz Eylül University. Quartet released the Imagine's music video on YouTube on John Lennon's birthday. The cover was never released officially.
Lines We Drew (2011)
Upcoming album.
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