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You can find the album in iTunes and Spotify , Apple Music etc...      Photo credit: Bugrahan Unsal

Selcuk Suna

THE SPACE BETWEEN

 


This group mixes traditional Turkish folk music with jazz, hip-hop, funk; a blend of different worlds and different eras in time. All compositions are by Selcuk Suna. Produced by Tyler Emond.
 

Band Members:

Saxophones & Clarinet / Selcuk Suna

Guitar / Tyler Emond & Demetrios Petsalakis

Keyboards / Tyler Emond & Demetrios Petsalakis

Bass / Tyler Emond

Drums / Matias Recharte & Marito Marques

Guest Turkish percussions / Mehmet Akyazi

Guest Vocal / Tara Moneka

 Guest Keyboards / Iskender Paydas

 Guest Strings / Jessica Hana Deutsch

 

 

 

 

Photo credit: Yunus Emre Dogan 

Photographer: Yunus Emre Dogan

Interests – Jazz, Funk, Soul, Pop, Rock, Classical, Turkish, Experimental

Born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1981, Selcuk comes from a family of musicians. His father, a professor of Traditional Turkish Music at Istanbul University, and his brother, a violin player and song writer, brought Selcuk into the music scene at a very young age. Selcuk was 8 years old when he joined the children's opera in AKM (Ataturk Cultural Centre). In addition, his parents decided to get him started on the clarinet when he was 11 in order to strengthen his lungs. It was the clarinet that led Selcuk to the saxophone at age 17. By the time Selcuk was 18, he was performing on various television programs and for many famous pop singers throughout Turkey. 

In his high school years, Selcuk studied clarinet at the conservatory in Istanbul.  He also won many high school vocal competitions. Selcuk was granted a full scholarship to study Jazz at Bilgi University, Istanbul, in the Jazz Performance (Saxophone) Department, which earned him a degree in Jazz Music. 

Selcuk has studied saxophone with great Ricky Ford, theory with greta Butch Morris. He has also played on stage with well-known artists such as Shakira. While living in Turkey, Selcuk played on a weekly friday late-night show(Beyaz Show) for 13 years; he also played for numerous Turkish pop-stars(Ajda Pekkan, Kayahan, Mustafa Ceceli etc.) Selcuk plays saxophone and clarinet for countless albums, theme music, television shows, and musicals. Selcuk also participates in vocal recordings, and is very knowledgeable in composition and has composed music for the theatre. 

Selcuk currently resides in Toronto, Canada, as a freelance musician. His past album "Turkish Standards / Non-standard" and the most recent album "The Space Between" can be found here.  He also performs with Moneka Arabic Jazz, Fethi Nadjem, Meltemi throughout Canada. In addition, Selcuk is a member of the New Canadian Global Music Orchestra, KUNÉ. Selcuk can be seen at various venues throughout the Greater Toronto Area...

Selcuk uses a soprano,alto & tenor saxophone (all Selmer Series III), clarinet (Buffet RC)

Selcuk Suna's album reviewed by Wholenote Magazine

Kensignton Jazz Festival reviewed by carefulblog.com

 

RECORDING STUDIO

Recorded countless works using my home studio. Send me the files and any details, and I will get to work. All styles including Jazz , Funk , Latin , Pop , World , Soul and R&B.

Recorded countless songs and albums using my professional studio. Send me the files and the details, and I will get to work. All styles including Jazz , Funk , Latin , Pop , World , Soul and R&B.

EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS:

  • Saxophones(tenor,alto,soprano) and clarinet

  • Sound card-Presonus

  • 4 channel Preamp:Hand made highest quality preamp by Harun Aksoy http://www.gadgetronicsaudio.com/

  • Art 2 channels preamp

  • 2 channel preamp:Hand made highest quality preamp by Harun Aksoy

http://www.gadgetronicsaudio.com/

  • Mac Studio

  • Logic Pro X

  • Monitors BM5A MKII

  • Mackie Big Knob Monitor Control

  • Microphones NEUMANN TLM 102 / RODE NT1-A and SENNHEISER MD-421 etc.

 

 

 

Please Check my contact info if you have inquiries

 

Discography For Selcuk Suna

The Space Between full album

Fethi Nadjem 2025 full album

Kune 2023 full album

Sultans of String https://open.spotify.com/track/5ZUqIg4oTuxi6FvRGfnZms?si=FT9710clR46_xeBil5zEsg

Cuban Canadian band OKAN https://open.spotify.com/artist/1YSAVsIPIV7qdbOO7Roufz?si=bUhK3rcUQcOM56onWzAfXQ

Partow Group(full album)(2019)https://open.spotify.com/artist/5DBfBgsizCsKTgDeWaBKHu?si=HDm1owT0SdGg_utnNy6iUA

Young Doctors In Love(2018)

Sultans of String-Christmas Album (2017)https://open.spotify.com/track/4uJv8HkbhLSqYJ64awcXWH?si=dQN3Y4ioTL216BDWEsmiOg

The Homeslice Experience – full album (2012)

Daniella Fabiano, Invisible Girl - “Invisible Girl” and “Stupid Boy” (2015)

Suat Suna, Askin Adi – Full album back vocals, clarinet and saxophones (2009)

Yalcin Akyildiz and Mengu Arslanoglu, Ruya – “Ruya” clarinet and soprano saxophones (2009)

Ayhan Gunyil, Skylight – “Ayhan’s Latin Flamenco” (2007)

Tuna Kiremitci, Tulumba – clarinet (2007)

Suat Suna,10– Full album back vocals, clarinet and saxophones and arrangement of brass section for the song “Sen” (2006)

Isin Karaca, Hosgoru – Full album back vocals; “Zamansiz” soprano saxophone (2005)

Isin Karaca, Icinde Ask var – Full album back vocals (2004)

Emre Altug, Sicak – Tracks 1,2,6,9 (2003)

Suat Suna, Su Damlasi  - Full album (back vocals, clarinet and saxophones) (2002)

Suat Suna, Yapamam Sensiz –  “Yapamam Sensiz” (1998)

 

-He played over 50 commercial music

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