Name: No Such Thing As Free Will
Brand: Deniz Cuylan

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HH136

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black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5056321639639

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Deniz Cuylan

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

Hush Hush

The memory is distant but distinct: Deniz Cuylan, five years old, early 1980s, at home in Istanbul, Turkey, listening to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on his parents' turntable. Those regal opening notes arise from nowhere and the music is instantly as real as daylight, refracting his imagination into a spectrum of unfamiliar sensations: grandeur, urgency, beauty, sorrow. Communion. Thirty-five years later, Cuylan is still chasing that feeling. The composer and multi-instrumentalist is older and wiser now but remains convinced that music is the most lucid articulation of the enduring contradictions of the human condition. Which is why No Such Thing as Free Will, is so unexpected. No Beethoven-inspired maximalism here, no internet-enabled hyperpop, no quixotic endeavor to cram every post-millennial trope and trend into some grand unifying theory. The six songs on Free Will distill a lifetime of collaborative musical exploration into a remarkably spare, meditative package. They're timeless, in that they are unattached to any specific moment but the one currently ticking by. They're universal, in that they come from everywhere and nowhere particular. Simultaneously subverting and embodying the manic cognitive dissonance of life on Earth circa 2021 AD, Cuylan recorded an ambient acoustic album. The bulk of No Such Thing As Free Will is built from classical guitar.

No Such Thing As Free Will

Music GB