Hand-Numbered edition, includes Obi Strip and set of 4 x 120mm x 120mm photo postcards selected by the band.
Yalvarma / Agitate / Yeter / Melodi Pt 1 / Melodi Pt 2 / Elegy For Love / Affet Beni / Inertia
/ Ahenk / Please Don’t Take This Badly
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about
London-based duo Kit Sebastian share their new single ‘Inertia’, a world cinema inspired gem. It is the second track to be taken from their forthcoming sophomore album, ‘Melodi', which is released 1st October on Mr Bongo. ‘Melodi' is a joyous expression of vibrant grooves and sophisticated lyricism that transcends boundaries, borders and social-cultural preconceptions. Those familiar with the band's cult classic 2019 debut record 'Mantra Moderne' will instantly recognise their unique take on world music, jazz and psychedelia. With this next album the duo have expanded their language and concepts and transposed them into something larger and more contemplative.
Influenced by their love of world cinema, ‘Inertia’ is infused with lush orchestral textures inspired by soundtracks from some of the duo's favourite films. The lyrics were written as a response to Marlene Dietrich’s performance in ‘Der Blaue Engel’, and how the apathy of modernity is communicated in cinema.
It sits in a relaxed, loose, smoky cinematic funk setting, with Merve's lead vocals sparring with the horn section, whilst strings and exotic instrumentation interweave in and out of the backbone of the song. Kit's backing vocals float almost ghost-like, mirroring Merve, giving it a dreamlike quality. The tone of 'Inertia' evokes a sense of longing and searching, a muted melancholy that is uplifted by the horn and string sections.
It is a sophisticated groove with a deeply seductive complexity that draws the listener in, being both timeless and borderless in its origins.
lyrics
Oh concrete sighs find you reposed
Smoking a blend of doubt disguised as hope
Inertia fills the culture I must breathe
To feel connection to disease
Past the statues, ‘scuse you’s’ and the tears of old and the thoughts of man who appeared so bold
Woe becomes the drug and the dreams decay
Though the absence comes the tears obeyed
credits
from Melodi,
track released August 20, 2021
Performers:
Merve Erdem - Vocals
Kit Martin - Guitar, Bass, Drums & Perc, Zither, Vocals, Glockenspiel
Ellie Wang – Viola
Munéyuki Sugiyama - Trumpet
WRITER/AUTHOR - Kit Martin / Merve Erdem
COMPOSER - Kit Martin / Merve Erdem
PRODUCER - Kit Martin
LYRICS LANGUAGE – English
EXPLICIT LANGUAGE - N
MIXING ENGINEER - Shuta Shinoda
Mastered by Pete Norman at Finyl Tweek
Published By: Mr Bongo
Kit Sebastian is a duo formed in London by Kit Martin and Merve Erdem, spread between Turkey and France. Their music is a meeting point of different genres from Anatolian Psychedelia and Brazilian Tropicalia to 60’s European pop and American jazz.
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
