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. The album has received wide attention and several awards in Turkey. The entire album is built around the concept of loneliness, concerning both the lyrics and the melancholic music. The first video, having the same title as the album, was shot by renowned director

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Track listing

# Afili Yalnızlık (''Ostentatious Loneliness'') # Git (''Leave'') # Hareket Vakti (''Time to move'') # Ve Gülümse Şimdi (Bebeğim) (''And smile now (My baby)'') # Bu Kez Anladım (''This time I understood'') # Kim Dokunduysa Sana (''Whoever touched you'') # Belki Bir Gün Özlersin (''Maybe one day you'll miss me'') # Kalan Sağlar Senin Olsun (''The Living Be Yours'') # Unut Gittiğin Bir Yerde (''Forget, wherever you are'') # Dayan Yalnızlığım (''Endure, my loneliness'') * Hidden track: ''Tesadüfen'' (By Chance)

Album information

Personnel

* Management:

Hadi Elazzi Hadi Nabil Elazzi (born December 7, 1973, Istanbul) is one of the founders of Turkey, Turkish music production - management company and record label GRGDN. He was the manager of several renown Turkish artists like maNga (band), maNga, Gripin, Gök ...

, Selim Serezli * Producer:

Haluk Kurosman Haluk Kurosman (born 1 March 1975, Istanbul) is a Turkish music producer and co-founder (together with Hadi Elazzi) of GRGDN, a music production – management company and record label; producing, mixing and mastering the albums of successful yo ...

* Arrangement: **Haluk Kurosman (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10),The numbers indicate the track numbers **Tuğrul Akyüz, Haluk Kurosman (5, 9) * Studio:

* Recording, Editing, Mixing: Haluk Kurosman * Mastering: Çağlar Türkmen * Design: Homework, Serdar Beyaz * Photography: Cemil Ağacıkoğlu

Musicians

* Emre Aydın: ** Vocal, backing vocal **

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(7, 8, 10) **

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(3, 7, 9, 10) **

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(4) *

: ** Electronic underworks, keyboards ** acoustic guitar (7, 8, 10) ** electric guitar (1, 7, 9, 10) **

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(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) **

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(1, 3, 9, 10) ** backing vocals (8, 9) * Tuğrul Akyüz (

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): ** acoustic guitar (7, 8) ** electric guitar (3, 5, 8, 10) ** Electric underworks (3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) * Yusuf Torun: ** acoustic guitar (1, 3, 9) ** electric guitar (3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) * İlker Baliç (

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s * Cem Bahtiyar (

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): bass guitar (1, 9, 10) * Onur Ela: acoustic and electric guitar (2, 5) * Özgür Salı: keyboards and

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(4, 10) * Neslihan Engin: keyboards (8) * Kempa Yaylı Grubu: stringed instruments (1, 3, 4, 8)

Videos

#''Afili Yalnızlık'' (Ostentatious Loneliness) (directed by

) #''Kim Dokunduysa Sana Ona Git'' (Whoever Touched You) (Emre Can) #''Sensiz İstanbul'a Düşmanım'' (I Loathe Istanbul Without You) – duet with

(directed by Gürcan Keltek) #''Git'' (Go) (Yon Thomas, Mike Norman) #''Belki Bir Gün Özlersin'' (Maybe One Day You'll Miss) (directed by Gürcan Keltek) #''Bu Kez Anladım'' (This Time I Understood) #''Dayan Yalnızlığım'' (Hold On My Loneliness) (directed by Fadıl Dinçer)

Notes

External links

Emre Aydın's official website

GRGDN official site
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