People born with the Moon in Gemini are open to new experiences, enjoy meeting new people and are enthusiastic about all the information and opportunities the world has to offer. I had to look that up, I admit. I could have dispensed with the astrological introduction if Işık Kural hadn’t called his new album »Moon In Gemini«. And if my words here didn’t go so well with his music.
Işık Kural songs are short. Rarely longer than three minutes. They are condensed snapshots of mundane situations from everyday life. Sometimes, as on the instrumental »Redcurrants«, it is simply the sun shining onto a windowsill and the birds chirping outside. Sometimes, as on »Mistaken for a Snow Silent«, it is snow fall in April and two people huddling together in the cold. Music for daydreamers. Even more dreamy than his already dreamy début »In February« from 2022.
Işık Kural, who now lives in Glasgow after stints in Istanbul, Miami and Helsinki, recorded »Moon In Gemini« in an old farmhouse in his Turkish hometown of Amasya, experimenting with new recording techniques. He was joined by flautist Tenzin Stephen, harpist Kirstin McCarlie, clarinetist Giulia Tamborino and singer Stephanie »Spefy« Roxanne Ward. And then he wrote these intimate songs. We had the chance to ask him which records currently inspire him.
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