The sun sets alone, always silently
In places you don’t know, my cries resound
Isolation doesn’t always arrive through separation. Sometimes it forms inside continuity—inside work that never finishes, grief that never clarifies, and survival that repeats without reward. Ductape’s latest single “Gölgesiz” (Turkish for “no shadow”) unfolds from that condition. Rather than dramatizing suffering, it documents persistence: sorrows accumulate, collapse, and return; attempts at renewal scatter rather than resolve. Even descent offers no bottom—only something briefly solid to cling to before the cycle resumes. Without shadow, there is no contrast between rest and strain, no place where pressure eases. Identity narrows to become an act of endurance itself.
Sung in Turkish, Gölgesiz moves with the weary momentum of someone who continues because stopping would mean collapse. The vocals are restrained and weighted, carrying a beautiful fatigue rather than dramatic force. Time is experienced not as progression but as repetition—days without contour, a present stretched thin. Power exists here, but it is volatile and conditional, shaped by attrition rather than control. And the storm singer Çağla Güleray embodies here isn’t chaos but pressure: a low system that builds like thunder that refuses to break.
Musically, the track mirrors that state. Post-punk guitar lines and steady, insistent drumming generate forward motion without release, circling rather than advancing. The arrangement resists climax, reinforcing the sense of movement without destination—discipline holding everything together where hope no longer does.
The black-and-white DIY video gives this isolation a physical form. Shot in Quito, Ecuador, during Ductape’s Latin American tour, it followsGüleray along an expansive shoreline, where she is often—though not exclusively—rendered in silhouette, bathed in darkness, and reduced to outline. The body drifts, smoke-soft and unstable, neither fully anchored nor fully erased. For a song titled Gölgesiz, the blurred line between what is all shadow and what has no shadow feels quietly pointed: presence thinned into residue, a figure carried by wind and water rather than by intention. Subtle distortions loosen the body from gravity, reinforcing the song’s central condition—exposure without shelter, endurance without protection.
Watch the video for “Gölgesiz” below:
Even after an extensive tour cycle, Ductape continues forward. Their upcoming album Faded Flowers, due in 2026, suggests a broader meditation on endurance, surrender, and what it means to remain present when relief never arrives.
Listen to “Gölgesiz” below and order the single here.
Ductape will be touring throughout Europe throughout 2026, including a performance at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in May, along with dates in Spain, Germany, Malta, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and more.
Tour dates:
- Dec 26 — Hangar 48, Madrid, Spain
- Dec 27 — Sala Vol, Barcelona, Spain
- Jan 05 — Slaughter Club, Paderno Dugnano, Italy
- Feb 20 — Eventstudio / Stereowerk, Brunswick, Germany
- Feb 21 — Lido, Berlin, Germany
- Feb 27 — Mergener Hof, Trier, Germany
- Feb 28 — Rockfabrik, Übach-Palenberg, Germany
- Apr 16 — Hafenklang, Hamburg, Germany
- Apr 17 — Exil, Göttingen, Germany
- Apr 17 — Gianpula Main Room, Ħaż-Żebbuġ, Malta
- Apr 18 — Kulturzentrum Grend, Essen, Germany
- May 21 — Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig, Germany
- Jun 25 — 2progi, Poznań, Poland
- Jun 27 — Cultuurhuis De Leest, Izegem, Belgium
- Jul 10 — Rock la Mureș, Simeria, Romania
- Aug 20 — Stella Nomine Festival, Torgau, Germany
- Sep 25 — Die Stadtmitte, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Sep 26 — Das Rind, Rüsselsheim, Germany
- Oct 23 — Kulturzentrum Bollwerk 107, Moers, Germany
- Oct 24 — Kulturzentrum franz.K, Reutlingen, Germany
- Nov 20 — Rust, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nov 21 — The Abyss, Gothenburg, Sweden
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