The title track to Yedi Kat Yabancı’s 2022 EP DEVON employs sequenced loops and distorted synth washes to draw you into a song about reconciling conflicting emotions and uncomfortable memories as a means of processing the ways those wrinkles in the psyche can trip up your full development as a human. The nostalgic tones are entrancing and hearken to educational videos of the early 80s in which the filmmakers used then new modes of making music to craft the soundtrack often unwittingly making melodies that suggest an open future of expansive possibilities. Think a more beautifully haunting version of the Cannon Pictures theme music but drawn out like a musical path to a better tomorrow. That’s the vibe of “DEVON” and the music video for the song is a visual map of the flow of thoughts and imagery in the mind that you mull over in moments of calm when you can feel relaxed enough to revisit memories that may have seemed painful and complicated at one point but which now you can look back on and appreciate the layers of those memories and the people that were a part of making them and appreciate the context more and how it’s helped to shape the person you are today in the positive and not so wonderful sense but in the process of attaining that perspective one also acquires the ability to accept a process of becoming rather than being trapped by it. Watch the video for “DEVON” on YouTube and follow the Istanbul-based artist Yedi Kat Yabancı at the links below.
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