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Find a Psychedelic 'Bangalore' with Sea Moya

10 April 2016 | 10:00 am | Madeline Kilby

If you give SEA MOYA's new single ‘Bangalore’ a listen you’ll be hooked, and more about the flying cat than the prowling cat.

SEA MOYA are a trio that define themselves as psychedelic music, meanwhile the tunes they make are blurring the lines of indie-electronica and Afrobeat.

Yeah that makes Sea Moya sound like a very confused cat, that maybe found itself roaming amongst the pigeons, wondering why it couldn’t fly, rather than thinking of attacking. But if you give ‘Bangalore’ a listen you’ll be hooked, and more about the flying cat than the prowling cat.

Writing about music you usually find yourself reading a presser that gives you all the best details of a band and their tracks. On this occasion the thing that stuck out most to me was the description of Sea Moya’s music was ‘modern retro progressiveness’. It sounds like a major oxymoron, and yet it’s actually the only way to work exactly what you are hearing with ‘Bangalore’. I couldn’t come up with any words better myself, so I stole theirs.

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It’s this kind of old school sound, a bit like from an old movie where everything is a huge long panning shot and grainy quality. And yet with the electronic influences on the sound, it clearly belongs just as much in 2016 as it does in 1966.

One third of the Cologne based band, Ivan, explains the song to the band is about driving through a highway at night in a foreign exotic city. Without making the track to urban city, they wanted it to be more organic. The track was finished, and named, after other members David and Elias took a trip to India, sound influences you can also hear within the track.

Sea Moya’s next EP Baltic States will be released on Heist or Hit in June.

Words by Madeline Kilby

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