Nilgün Özer

In case you still haven’t listened, my second album Broken Patterns is out. 🫀 I wanted to have a specific post just for the credits because it took so many people to bring this project alive. Credits All tracks written and composed by Nilgün Özer Produced by Nilgün Özer Co-produced by Ashley Maurice @__ashleymaurice on tracks 3 and 11 Performed by Nilgün Özer Additional musicians whom I’m immensely grateful to: Drums in ‘housecat on the hill’ by Joshua Mellard @josh_em_dot_com Electronics in ‘Secrets’ by Ashley Maurice Bass guitar in ‘They’re Ringing Our Bells’, ‘Heart of Many’ by Ashley Maurice Modular patch in ‘breaking habits is already hard enough’ by Ashley Maurice, Nilgün Özer Piano in ‘breaking habits is already hard enough’, ‘They’re Ringing Our Bells’ by Ashley Maurice Additional guitar in ‘What They Say About the World’ by Ashley Maurice Time Motifs Choir consist of, Adriana Bona @adrianabonaa Delan Fernando @fernando.delan Gabriel Venegas @gabrielvenegas__ Galadriel Daufresne @_galadrieldlc_ Hari Krishna @shriek.studio Ian Manning @eldritchbass Laura Lengua @marialauralengua Laura Mainard @lauramainard Niko Gomez @niko_shiuu Nilgün Özer Nino Theys @nino.theys Olesia Konovalenko @ales_kon Recorded between 2023-2025 in Funkhaus, Berlin Mixed & Mastered by Nilgün Özer photo by @saramalikova

My second album Broken Patterns is out! 🫀 When i started making music more than 15 years ago i never understood why musicians would give such big breaks between releases. Without realizing i was deep in a big lesson this last 3 years, i learned why and how. For the first time i didn’t really choose compositions and instead I fully trusted the process and let them come to me. Broken Patterns was first an EP. Then i had a photoshoot and started the paintings and sewing and realized this album is gonna be big. It felt like an anthropological excavation where i slowly found new discoveries about this world. Then the rest followed through. The roads and layers of mine i discovered in this process was interesting, to say the least. I honestly feel like a different person. However, one thing that i had and still is the core of my art is that i always write about the realities of either my life or lives that i observe. I think it’s safe to say for me art is for life. So each song represents a reality, I will perhaps give glimpses of these in later days but my biggest wish is i hope you’ll find snippets of your realities within this work and it’ll make you feel seen. ❤️ Thank you for listening ❤️

Breaking patterns is neither easy nor painless, yet it is vital for life that moves forward. Here is what this album is about, It will be out soon 🫀 This song is my first release where i composed the track with my humble piano skills and modular stuff, thank you @__ashleymaurice for gracing me with your piano skills so that this could come together. 🧡 #newalbum #darkfolk #experimentalfolk #independentrelease

retrospective: tea&stillness team event for @soundcloud with life music by @afflatuse 🪈 #teaceremony #teamevents #wellbeingberlin

Dear musicophiles, join us this Thursday to listen to @afflatuse ‘s newest album “Broken Patterns”. There will also be a short talk followed by time for questions. We hope to see you there! ——— Dragi ljubitelji muzike, pridružite nam se ovog četvrtka i poslušajte najnoviji album @afflatuse “Broken Patterns”. Bit će i kratki artist talk, nakon čega slijedi vrijeme za pitanja. Vidimo se tad! “Broken Patterns is a multidisciplinary body of work where I explore rupture between the musical traditions I grew up with and the experimental sounds I’ve come to embrace, acoustic and electronic, tradition and modernity, routine and societal collapse. It’s a project that spans sound, visuals, performance, and text.“ 📸 @saramalikova

On the move to start a project in Bosnia for @culturemoveseurope I had to get to Bosnia by bus so i stopped by Vienna to visit my cutie @hasnadost And guys the art is everywhere, and Vienna is cute 🌿 Manifesting this lady’s energy 🌕 #culturemoveseurope

time away is time very much not away and i like that🌿

Nilgun, a Creative Audio Production & Sound Engineering alumna, shares a powerful reminder during the International Women’s Day event she co-organised here at Catalyst. ⁠ ⁠ #CreativeJourney #InternationalWomensDay #CatalystBerlin #SoundEngineering #WomenInAudio

I just wanna make music and eat great food with my friends and fam, that’s it.

Bonus track from Broken Patterns you can’t listen to from most music markets, only cd and bandcamp. :) Let me know if you want a cd or a code for having it on bandcamp as digital. #brokenpatterns

Throwback to the end of my performance for @manifest.io.berlin It was a dream come true ending to this performance. I merged 2 of my tracks from my recently released album “Broken Patterns” and let the Time Motifs Choir take it away while I say what I wanna say. It seems I had a lot to say about “the things they Don’t say” Broken Patterns is out.🫀 Ashley Maurice (@__ashleymaurice ) on bass guitar and electronics Visuals by Miraal Habib (@miroo.proj ) DOP / Videographer: Nela Wojaczkova (@nwjczk ) Assistant videographer: Yarram Andrew Stephen (@_stephen.yarram_ ) Thank you to D&B Audio for the Sound System (@dbaudiotechnik_gmbh ) #brokenpatterns #spokenword #livemusic #neyflute #experimentalfolk

playing ney and looping with your foot is difficult, i need a looper that i can use with my brain 📷 by @__ashleymaurice while we were practicing for Broken Patterns 🫀 #neyflute #loopinglayers