el jardín (2025)
Composed between Barcelona, Boston, Istanbul, and Valencia, El Jardín emerges from a time of profound personal change, embracing an acoustic, narrative, and global sound.
El Jardín blends Latin American rhythms with Mediterranean harmonies and poetic lyrics, featuring voices such as Maria Rodés (Spain) and Ana Rossi (Argentina). The result is an emotional journey in which each song reinterprets the past through the lens of the present. Written during a period marked by health challenges, personal losses, and a life transition, El Jardín tells the story of emotional transformation, memory, and rebirth.
MACONDO (2021)
Influenced by Latin American cultures, Macondo features lyrics inspired from Gabriel García Marquez and Pablo Neruda. Moreover, it features rhythms inspired from Latin America including chacarera, cumbia and others. The album is named after the fictional town in García Marquez’s bestseller “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Macondo includes an international group of musicians, including Marcelo Woloski, percussionist of Snarky Puppy and Banda Magda. This album was released as a series of three EPs: Migrante, Imagina and Raíz.
Mexican composer and singer Natalia Lafourcade was a great inspiration for this project. With her encouragement, Alper Tuzcu started composing the songs on this EP, with a more clear and defined approach to composing in Spanish. Helena Beltrão (Brazil), Nicoh Kwan (US), Marcelo Woloski (Argentina), Bengisu Gökçe (Turkey) and LASYA (India) are among the musicians in this album.
AURORA (2018)
Aurora is an international collaboration with Tuzcu’s musician friends Berklee College of Music, where the elements of jazz and electronica mix with Classic Turkish Music with lyrics influenced from poetry of Rumi. Growing up in cosmopolitan Istanbul, Tuzcu has been heavily inspired by the multicultural life of the city in his music. In this way, Alper Tuzcu’s music is a global project with a local approach to his cultural heritage as well.
Aurora, whose sound can be described by some of Alper Tuzcu’s influences such as Bonobo, Avishai Cohen and Thundercat, is the result of a genre-bending international collaborative featuring vocalists Micaella Cattani (Ecuador), Danielle Angeloni (US), LASYA (India) and Kat Kennedy (US). Written and recorded in United States, the album also features musicians from Italy, Colombia, Israel, Oman and Cyprus.
BETWEEN 12 WATERS (2016)
Between 12 Waters is a Alper Tuzcu’s debut album released by Palma Records, featuring seven vocalists from different parts of the world including Pia Salvia, Ganavya Doraiswamy, and Olivia Mok. The album title is a play on words inspired by Flamenco guitar legend, Paco de Lucía’s “Entre Dos Aguas”.
Tuzcu’s vision for this album was to write and produce 12 songs from almost 12 different cultural influences with various collaborators and compile a collection of his recordings from the past two years. Inspired by a variety of influences, which all relate to time spent living in the Mediterranean culture, each and every one of the 12 songs has its own unique story, musical and lyrically. In the end, they all come together under the single concept of reflecting the artist’s musical vision to mix different styles to erode cultural limits and borders.
With an eclectic collection of songs that are inspired from Flamenco, Jazz, Turkish folk and Electronic music, the album represents Tuzcu’s versatile background as a guitar player, composer and producer.
