Interview: She Past Away

Back in early 2013 İdris Akbulut of She Past Away agreed to do an interview with me.
Being the first English Otranto article then I would like to just repost the whole thing here, but keep in mind that it's already more than a year old.

They are currently THE insiders’ tip of the New Wave underground – She Past Away. The duo from Turkey had already been active on stage for several years and had released a three song EP in 2010, but it was in 2012 with their first full length album “Belirdi Gece” that they had an international breakthrough.
Critiques for this work almost couldn’t be any better, and I myself think every single one of the ten songs is quite ingenius in its respective way and I won’t hesitate a second to call myself an enthusiastic new fan. Bass player İdris Akbulut talked to the Otranto archives…


İdris, your musical style reminds me a lot of classical dark wave bands of the 80′s and early 90′s. Is that intentional? 

We are heavily influenced by the 80’s music. The albums we love to listen to mostly belong to that period. Our music is an outcome of this influence; however, there has never been a band we tried to sound like. It is totally natural. 

And how would you describe your music, and what are your musical backgrounds, inspirations and influences?