Deniz Cuylan - For Luca *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 30th October 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

For Luca, Cuylan’s new album of elegant modern classical, globally informed
folk and gentle electronic music, is in part a tribute to his dearly departed
dog. Luca came into Cuylan’s life like a key unlocking a door, leading to
experiences and experiments simultaneously new and familiar. Back then the
Turkish-born musician was living in LA with his wife, leading a busy creative
life, writing and recording scores for films and Netflix series, and suddenly
with the adoption of Luca here’s this bouncy, furry being demanding
constant attention. Cuylan accepted the responsibility like a father
welcoming a child. He grew closer to his wife. He started psychoanalysis. He
returned to acoustic guitar, his original instrument, waylaid for 20 years in
favor of synthesizers and electronics, pulsing post-rock and skittering jazz.
Luca was there in the studio when Cuylan recorded his first solo album,
2021’s No Such Thing As Free Will, which The Guardian said “seems to invent
new languages for the guitar.”

Without a doubt, Luca the dog made Deniz the musician more expressive
and more vulnerable. Better at his craft. Better at his humanity.
Luca was just five years old when bone cancer struck. He exited far too
quickly, a comet of joy passing into the dark, unfathomable universe. Cuylan
found his absence very hard to process–he was just right here! It took a
couple years, but inevitably Luca, the catalyst for Cuylan’s current chapter,
inspired new artistry after his death–from Cuylan, and from a host of
collaborators from around the world who contributed to For Luca. All of
them share an abiding compassion for the more-than-human creatures with
whom we share this planet–dogs, cats, whales, ants, trees. The entire
menagerie, humankind’s kindred. The album is a collective meditation on–and
celebration of–their immeasurable essence. It was born not from despair but
from a transcendent love that burns all the brighter for its brevity.

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