O g ü n A C A R - S e m i h Y A KU P O Ğ L U
Tersnağme is something which reflects who we are, our perspective and the understanding of music and life…
Ogün Acar &Semih Yakupoğlu; two good fellows who have been friends since university years have met somewhere in their dreams of music to introduce their musical experiences to the listeners ,although they have quite different lives. Semih has been a pharmacist for 20 years and still working. Ogün had worked as an industrial engineer for a long time, but today he is running a beautiful boutique hotel with his family.
We had a nice conversation with Tersnağme members, Ogün and Semih, whom we will be hearing soon in music world with their first music album ‘Uzak’. We talked about their music life and new album in Mrs Saliha Stone Mansion, located in historical and touristic town of Birgi, İzmir. We asked what we wonder about them.
Can you tell us about why you waited 20 years for the album?
Ogün: At university, it was too easy to spare time for music because we were only students with merely responsible for studying, but after we graduated, we had many more responsibilities to make our living. Time and conditions flew us to different lives and places. As a pharmacist Semih went to Kars, a city on the east of Turkey. He was still making music. In Kars he formed local music bands and he started to gather teenagers and supported them to perform music giving concerts in many festivals. I went back to Ankara to work. I also went to England and then to Istanbul for my Professional business, engineering. Our priorities changed subsequently. During this period, I have lived with music, though. Music has always been somewhere inside me and so I played music with various instruments by myself. As you know and appreciate making an album is something that needs togetherness with true time and place. Conditions are convenient for us now and we want to share our musical experiences with all people.