“I wanted to share my story in Canada as an immigrant”, says Fuat Tuaç of his second disc, the follow-up to 2017's Late Bloomer. “I wanted to talk about my journey in Canada. I wanted to talk about the people I’ve met along the way; my experience inside and outside the jazz world; what I anticipated from Canada and what I’ve actually found; how people see me and how I see them. I wanted to talk about all of this”.

Tuaç practised law in Turkey, France and UK prior to giving it all up to relocate to Canada to study jazz at Concordia University in 2011. Reflecting this international evolution, he sings in English, French and his native Turkish. Opening track ‘No Strings Attached’ introduces one of the themes here – dating and relationships in the social media area – which returns in ‘Who's That Man?’ ‘Moss Park’ focuses on homelessness in Toronto.

The songs have an attractive, ragged cosmopolitan feel, conjured with the help of the stylings of guitarist Eric St-Laurent and trumpeter Kevin Turcotte, in addition to the rhythm section of Jordan O’Connor (bass) and Eric West (drums). Kim Richardson duets with Tuaç on the Francophone ‘Chez Moi’, while Yeşim Akin shares the vocals on ‘Uzun Ince Bir Yoldayim’.