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The Item Girl

by Kapil Seshasayee

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Released on Loner Noise
Catalogue Number - EML-S019

Kapil Seshasayee returns with "Laal" - the follow up to 2018's "A Sacred Bore" and the 2nd instalment of his Desifuturist trilogy of albums. "Laal" is a concept album about the influence of the Bollywood film industry and includes his latest single "The Item Girl" as premiered in Rolling Stone India.

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I hear you ask with every death accrued
Whose still afraid of Red Yellow & Blue?
Nigh on heel-turn
Violently
Cry Subaltern
Vehemently

An Artifice
All empty static
An outline to abrase
I would stand
Had I not objected to

All Assertion
Silently
Seek To Burden
Stray too far
Rendering the act subdued

I only meant it in relation to
The underpinnings of an act I’ll soon regret
For all the trappings of an Item Girl
I’m in no rush to reappraise it yet

A vapid tryst
Deemed Emblematic
An ethos to evade
Understand
This is not a platitude

Veiled coercion
A reprieve
Defamation
Veer from what could remedy an attitude

I only meant it in relation to
The underpinnings of an act I’ll soon regret
For all the trappings of an Item Girl
I’m in no rush to reappraise it yet

I hear you ask with every death accrued

Whose still afraid of Red Yellow & Blue?
Nigh on heel-turn
Violently
Cry Subaltern
Vehemently

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released October 18, 2019
Vocals / Guitars / Keys / Electronics: Kapil Seshasayee

"Dazzling" - Rolling Stone India

"The intricate guitar lines still bear the harmonic and rhythmic influence of Carnatic music, but it's twisted through the avant-jazz sensibility of Mary Halvorson and the kind of digital processing associated with St Vincent. In lesser hands, a track like this could be a mess, but Seshasayee pulls it all together with real pop nous and bracing invective." - The List

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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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