{"product_id":"kit-sebastian-mantra-moderne","title":"Kit Sebastian - Mantra Moderne","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Mantra Moderne' is a stunning, contemporary masterpiece that fuses Anatolian Psychedelia, Brazilian Tropicalia, 60’s European pop and American jazz. A must for fans of Khruangbin, Portishead, Arthur Verocai, Goat, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes, Cortex and co.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe duo is formed of Kit Martin, who lives between London and France and plays all instruments on the album, and Merve Erdem, vocalist and multi-disciplinary artist from Istanbul, now based in London. This is their debut album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album explores universal themes such as love, loss, decay, language and ideology, mixing three different languages: English, Turkish and French. Written and recorded by the duo - Kit composed all the songs and Merve wrote the lyrics - in rural France during 2018, each song was completed within a 12-hour window, pawning contemplation for spontaneity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDubbed by Kit and Merve as ‘lo-fi-hi-fi’ in reference to the high-end tube equipment that helped it find its way to 8-track cassette tape. The style owes its sound to narrow tape width, valve distortion, spring reverb, the mixture of high end gear with lo-fi equipment as well as a disregard to the norms of hi-fi studio techniques. All instruments were analogue and no samples were used. The instruments that are used range from tablas to darbukas, balalaikas to ouds, MS20 synths to Farfisa organs and a lot of cuica. The mixing techniques were done on-the-fly, tracking immediately to tape: compression, EQ, delay and reverb; meaning mixing could not be revisited!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mr Bongo","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47316709540002,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/4059930-3479511.jpg?v=1780855946","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/es\/products\/kit-sebastian-mantra-moderne","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}