Kural, Isik - in february (Thistle Pink Vinyl, Indie Exclusive) MUE748901.1

Kural, Isik - in february (Thistle Pink Vinyl, Indie Exclusive) MUE748901.1On in february, Isik Kural works like a photographer of sound, documenting the passing and returning of time as if material snapshots of life's temporality. Across the album's twelve songs, each composed from chance loops and cocooned within the soft container of Isik's memorable voice and melody play, time is held on to hopefully, impossibly, eternally. Born in Istanbul, Isik studied music engineering at the University of Miami, alighted in New York

Somebody Call A Doctor

pushed the keyboards way back in the mix in deference to highly processed and crunchy guitars

Featured here are serious funk and rocksteady tunes from the likes of The Skatalites and Johnny Osbourne through to Jamaican jazz from masters such as Tommy McCook and Byron Lee

in 1982 and has been available on unofficial bootlegs

it was an opportunity to articulate her deepest thoughts and emotions into a new album

The friends came together in 2016 with the goal of developing and recording a collection of songs Ramani had written in high school and college

originally released in November 1981

Texas In January 2019 I contacted my friend and producer Brad Cook to help recreate what I had made in my shed

an inscrutable but entirely self-assured masterpiece

as well as on college radio stations

as well as a knack for writing strong melodies

Dressed in long golden hair