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"Turkey's Instrumental Guitar Entry"

Billed as one of Turkey's first instrumental guitarists, Serdar Oztop's first CD Sukut is a stunning example of the compositional and playing ability of this artist. Featuring ten instrumentals, the album offers blazing, cleanly and confidently played axework while containing enough surprises and twists to stand up to repeated listenings. Oztop was trained as an engineer, so the production and recording is top notch. Graceful ballads such as "Kalabaligin Ortasinda" alternate with ethnically enriched pieces ("Yeni Gun"), and fierce, all-out-pedal-to-the-floor rockers ("Azraille Dans"). Oztop has mastered the fine art of balancing memorable, melodic and harmonized guitar lines with impressively fluid, smoking speed solos, and that alone is enough to highly recommend Sukut to guitar fans.


Serdar was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1970. His introduction to music came from playing the mandolin in primary school. Serdar picked up the electric guitar in high school, and later started to play original compositions with his first band, Exon, which I formed in the beginning of his years at university. After he graduated from the electronics school at Bogazici University, he started working in Spectrum Recording Studio as a sound engineer, also joining the Turkish rock band "Kesmeseker" Serdar later set up a home studio, continued my studies as a producer-arranger. In a short time, he had the chance to work with Turkey's top rock stars and became a well known producer and guitarist.

Oztop continues to gig around the Istanbul area and hopes to make a big splash all over the world with his instrumental release.

- www.guitar9.com


Discography

As a solo artist;
"Mutlulugun Gozyaslari (Tears of Happiness)" 2005
"Sukut (Silence)" 2002

As a band member;
Bulutsuzluk Ozlemi "Bulutsuz Senfoni" 2004
Kesmeseker "Ask ve Para" 1994

As a producer, arranger, musician and/or sound engineer ;
Baris Akarsu "Islak Islak"
Asrýn "Maximum"
Kutsal "Gözlerim agliyor"
Haluk Levent "www.leyla.com"
Rojin "Ya Hep Ya Hic"
Murat Evgin "Beni Ellere Verdin"
Haluk Levent "Mektup"
Arda "Unutma"
Haluk Levent "Arkadas"
Teoman "Teoman"
Haluk Levent "Bir Gece Vakti"
Tanju Asanel "Yolculuk"
Haluk Levent "Yollarda"
Murat Koseoglu "Yine Yagmurlar Yagiyor Duygularima"

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Bio

I was born in Istanbul, in 1970. I've studied civil engineering and electronics in Bogazici University.
I started practicing music by playing the mandolin in primary school. As I met the electric guitar in high school years, I was involved into music with a serious concentration. I played concerts with the school band and participated in contests organized among high schools. I started to play my original compositions with his first band Exon, which was formed in the beginning of my university years. The band had the chance to record a song as the winner of a contest at 2 branches; "Best Hardrock Band" and "Best Heavymetal Band". The band transformed into a funk-rock band because of the changes in the line-up and was named as Blue Line.
After I graduated electronics school of Bogazici University, I started working in Spectrum Recording Studio as a sound engineer. I had the chance to develop my skills on different recording techniques and worked in productions of various albums as an engineer and a studio musician. Meanwhile, I joined the Turkish rock band Kesmeseker and recorded the album "ask ve para" in Bogazici University's Recording Studio. I left the band after the album and formed the most reputable cover band of Turkey; Indians, which we have played in top clubs for a long time.
Setting up a home-studio, I continued my studies as a producer-arranger. In a short time, I had the chance to work with Turkey's top rock stars and became a well known producer and guitarist.
In summer of 2002, I released my first solo and Turkey's first instrumental rock album; "Sukut". After a short while, I joined the famous rock band Bulutsuzluk Ozlemi. I played many gigs around Turkey and Europe with the band and recorded a live album with a symphony orchestra named “Bulutsuzluk Senfoni”. Meanwhile with my album “Sukut”, I had positive feedback all around the world and was chosen as an undiscovered artist by the famous guitar site www.guitar9.com.
In the first quarter of 2005, I left the band to record my 2. album “Mutluluðun Gozyaslari(Tears of Happiness)” and to concentrate on my solo projects. My new album was released on September, 2005.