Name: The Ballad of Bant Singh
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: Protest musician Kapil Seshasayee releases a psychedelic R&B rework of live favourite "The Ballad of Bant Singh" from his acclaimed concept album about the horrors of the Indian caste system - as featured in The Guardian, Pitchfork, Vice, Rolling Stone India & The Quietus.

The Ballad of Bant Singh

by Kapil Seshasayee

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Protest musician Kapil Seshasayee releases a psychedelic R&B rework of live favourite "The Ballad of Bant Singh" from his acclaimed concept album about the horrors of the Indian caste system - as featured in The Guardian, Pitchfork, Vice, Rolling Stone India & The Quietus.

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I hang a robe upon the bloody hook
A disconnect
From all the stars that slowly dim as if to genuflect
An altercation that I hoped would circumvent a curse
An allegation that would render all my limbs inert

Your sect to a hilt (my wrath until)
You go and stir that sword
Don’t value your worth (as if it hurts)
Shaping your guise into an homage to a virtue

For berating the one that you adore
My only failings in a bid to learn anything
Don’t call my bluff if you’re not anxious

Heightened by it
Salient too
Bloated and rotund
But just in case

I had a feeling that it would have meant a lot to her
In spite of that your only motive is to make it worse
For all the risk I know I should have been more wary of
Decapitation as a token of my only love

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released May 19, 2023
Keys / Guitars / Vocals - Kapil Seshasayee
Drums / Percussion - Edwin Stewart McLachlan
Flute - Diljeet Kaur Bhachu

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Kapil Seshasayee Glasgow, UK

Kapil Seshasayee is a polymath, both as a songwriter and as a soundsmith, creating something wholly unique. Combining electronica flourishes evoking FKA Twigs with Indian Classical guitar ornamentations, stunning vocals and a penchant for unorthodox instrumentation such as the aquaphone, Kapil manages to be truly experimental yet still accessible. ... more

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