With Biblo’s latest album Absence, Pınar Üzeltüzenci tries to come to terms with the social and political turmoil happening in Turkey in 2013. The album was made at the time, over the period of one year. Facing the events in and around Gezi Park, Biblo stopped commuting between Istanbul and Berlin and instead stayed in her hometown, seismographically translating her reactions and experiences into music. Her approach is deeply emotional, the result is an oppressive odyssey through blurry dub sounds and distant noise, vague melodies and cryptic vocals. Her voice makes due without words. Absence –as Biblo explains– means «the absence of desire, the absence of roots, the absence of  meaning and the absence of justice». Her music is a sonic dislocation, both unsettled and unsettling, an attempt of way finding within chaos. This seeming disorientation, without a doubt a reflection on the incidents around her, make out the appeal of her music. Biblo opens a door to a dark labyrinth, wordlessly revealing her fears and secrets and translates her existential tensions between the private and the political into an electronic soundscape. 

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