Founded by Cenk Taner, Belen Unal, Tayfun Caglar and Melih Rona in 1990, the band has now completed its twentieth year along with seven albums, a myriad of concerts and the labour of many precious musicians contributed to it.

The band has won recognition in Turkish rock with its first album “Dipten ve Derinden” (From the Deep, From the Bottom) which was released in 1991. The musical adventure of the band has carried on with the albums “Aşk ve Para” (Love and Money, 1993), “Tut Beni Düşmeden” (Hold Me Before I Fall, 1995), “İnsulin” (Insulin, 1998), “İçinde İçindekiler Vardır” (Inside is the Index, 1999), “İzin Vermedi Yalnızlık” (Loneliness didn’t Let, 2000), the solo album of Cenk Taner and “Kum” (The Sand, 2004).

The last cadre of the band is as such: Cenk Taner (the founding guitarist and vocal of the band), Can Alper (the guitarist, back vocal and arranger who joined the band in 1994 and performed in the albums “Tut Beni Düşmeden” and “İnsulin”), Tansu Kızılırmak (the bass and acoustic guitarist, back vocal, composer and arranger who joined the band in 1996 and performed in the albums “İnsulin” and İçinde İçindekiler Vardır”), and Emre Sarıtunalılar (the drummer, percussionist, back vocal and arranger who joined the band in 1998 and performed in the album “İçinde İçindekiler Vardır”)

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of its foundation, the staff has come together again to dynamize the band with new albums and concerts. The band has met with its fans via twenty concerts organized in various cities including Istanbul under the heading “The Twentieth Anniversary Concerts” during the year 2011. This refreshment is now crowned with the album “Doğdum Ben Memlekette” (And I was Born in the Homeland) released with the label of Ada Music. The compositions and the lyrics of eleven songs in the album belong to Cenk Taner, while the arrangements are made by Can Alper, Tansu Kızılırmak, Emre Sarıtunalılar and Cenk Taner. The song “Eğ Başını Eğeceksen” (Bend Your Head If You Will) which was performed acoustically by Cenk Taner in the compiled album “Kent Ozanları I” (1998), yet never appeared in the previous albums of the band meets with the listeners with a brand new arrangement in the new album. The first video clip of the album has been shot by Özkan Aksular for the opening song “Atlar Dönmedi” (The Horses didn’t Return). The band is preparing to meet its fans with its new songs via an extensive concert series in the forthcoming period.

The band defines its listeners keeping company with it in this long journey as such: “It is the listener of Kesmeşeker who is an immense minority characterized not with the question ‘how many’ but with ‘who’…”