Stylish, clever, eclectic new single by the French-Turkish London-based duo of Kit Martin and Merve Erdem about the difficult immigration experience and fusing the influence of Azerbaijani music with an old Italian analog synth. It heralds their forthcoming album New Internationale, released on 27 September via Brainfeeder Records. Kit Sebastian specialise a fusion of different styles, such as Anatolian Psychedelia and Brazilian Tropicalia to 60’s European pop and American jazz.
On this track there’s the influence os famous Azerbaijani’s musicians (such Vagif Mustafazadeh or Rafig Babayev) but with a western funk groove, with an Italian analog synth found in a junkyard and a mock-choir to create a choral texture, ending with a samba section, with two drum kits, horn section and string section partially fed through an analog synth to process it.
The lyrics highlight an immigrant’s pressures and disillusionments of trying to find control, meaning, and a sense of belonging in a seemingly indifferent and foreign world, all while grappling with the compromises between pursuing art as a profession and seeking stability. It is about projecting one's hopes and desires onto a new city, the naive sense of freedom this brings, and the inevitable disillusionment and desolation that follow.
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When you want life to restart
Easiest way is to depart
Change of scene may do the trick
Find a city yellow-bricked
Hide your head
In the sand to feel you’re free
Cast your fears
Into the depths of North Sea
Glass, concrete, brick all around
What you looked for, what you found
Blue sky and the sun are gone
Desolation lights the dawn
Work, work, work
Are you an artist or clerk?
Tame your words
Are you a barbarous Turk?
Work, work, work
You think you’re losing control
Tame your words
Lose your worth before you know
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