09/03/2024

Isik Kural Shares New Single + Video for “Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues”

Ahead of its release this Friday, September 6, we offer a final preview of Isik Kural’s new album, Moon in Gemini, in the form of “Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues.”

Accompanied by a video from Öykü Dikmen, filmed in Olympos, Turkey (Isik’s home country), the closing track on Isik’s album embodies the altogether dreamier atmosphere that separates it from his previous work. As a songwriter, Isik is an intuitive and playful lyricist who allows his deep love of literature to flow through his off-kilter texts. On “Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues,” echoes of Silvina Ocampo’s poem “Dialogues of the Silence” reverberate from the margins while a hushed piano and field recordings create a tender pastiche and invite the listener to daydream as-deep-as-possible.

Isik’s music reaches forth from a place of future memory. His humble and intimate songs are collaged from fleeting moments, tinted with literary references and flickers from life’s silent cinema to create an impressionistic snapshot of the world that is perfectly imperfect in its poetry. Isik’s music tunes into tender and liminal states of being where the simple wonder of everyday life peeks through and the imaginary is always ripe for discovery.

Experience Öykü Dikmen’s video for “Most Beautiful Imaginary Dialogues” just below. Artist and “standard” LP and JP CDs are shipping now before Moon in Gemini is available across the digital universe on Friday.