Serdar Öztop: after sukut

News:
23-02-2007:
Serdar Öztop is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/serdaroztop

Sukut


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Background:
Serdar Öztop was born in Istanbul, in 1970. He started practicing music by playing the mandolin in primary school. He moved to the electric guitar in high school. He has studied civil engineering and electronics in Bogazici University.

After he graduated electronics school of Bogazici University, he started working in Spectrum Recording Studio as a sound engineer. He had the chance to develop his skills on different recording techniques and worked in productions of various albums as an engineer and a studio musician.

He set up a home-studio, he continued his studies as a producer-arranger. In summer of 2002, he released his first solo and Turkey's first instrumental rock album; "Sukut". He then joined the rock band Bulutsuzluk Ozlemi. He played many gigs around Turkey and Europe with the band and recorded a live album with a symphony orchestra named Bulutsuzluk Senfoni.

In the first quarter of 2005, he left the band to record his 2. album Mutlulugun Gozyaslari (Tears of Happiness) and to concentrate on his solo projects. Full list of albums: