Serdar Oztop Anatolian Rock Orchestra made a magnificent start with the concert titled “Inspiring Bards” hosted by Directorate of Orchestras of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality at famous Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall on December 14th 2023. A repertoire consists of orchestral arrangements made by Serdar Oztop for well known songs ot the 3 famous bards of 20th century, as well as original songs influenced from this culture. The audience had a great experience with the impressive performances of the guest artists; Ozan Bircan, Cahit Berkay, Murat Evgin, Burak Gürpınar, Ogün Sanlısoy, Nejat Yavaşoğulları and Rojin.
Murat Meriç played LPs of Anatolian music before the concert and hosted the show with Abtülkadir Elçioğlu.
I’ve recorded this anthem for the Youth and Sports Day of the 100th year of Turkish Republic. I hope it raises moral and courage on these critical days our country is going through.
You can listen/watch the work by clicking the links below.
We will be playing at Kadıköy Ağaç Ev on August 10B10th. This time Akın Eldes and Göksenin Tuncalı will be our guests. Bass-Vocal: Levent Okumuş Drums: Cihan Topaloğlu
Here is a short video of our performance on the night of June 8th in Ağaç Ev Kadıköy . We can’t wait to play for the audience of Ankara on July 26th in IF PERFORMANCE Hall 😊
Special thanks to Ahmet Serin , Kazım Aslan and Bülent Şimşek of BuzzMedya for this spectacular video; special guests of the night Murat Evgin , Onur Özaydın and Merve Çakar for their great performances; my band mates Levent Okumuş ,Cihan Topaloğlu and Mert Küçükaksoy for their support and musicianship; Burak Ocakçı for his hospitality 🙏
I’ve released a cover song last year but then I’ve decided to keep the video for a better time when the Covid pandemics is out of our lives. Now it’s the time to have some fun🎶🚀
We are on the road again but this time our destination is outer space. Dedicated to absent minds who are empowered with fake goals but have no endeavor to solve real problems.
Music and lyrics: Nejat Yavaşoğulları
Arrangement, vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keys, recording, editing,mixing and mastering: Serdar Öztop
Onur Özaydın has been drawing attention lately for his role in a prime time TV series, Yargi and now he is taking another step as a singer/songwriter with his new single, Yalan Yok. As usual, I took care of the whole production and performed many of the instruments.