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Selcan, when provoked, immediately starts beating Sirma to a bloody pulp. No hesitation. Straight up attacking this evil lady. And calm and reasonable Mother Hayme, watching her daughter-in-law slam Sirma, the new Margrave's sister, against the wall, just ever-so-quietly has the cooks close the door in the manner of:

With one foot in America and the other in Turkey, SIRMA, the New York-based artist from Istanbul releases her latest track “Coming Undone”, the follow-up from her Turkish language single “Belki Bir Gün” (“Maybe One Day”). Taking a light and lofty air, the buoyant track hovers over the arc of Turkish instrumentation and expansive percussion. Soft and tender with the emotion of her vocal delivery, SIRMA  had a quite a bit to say about the the track and explains that she was about trying to step out of her comfort zone as a Turkish musician trying to find her musical roots abroad:

“I think it’s fitting how ‘Coming Undone’ is a song about stepping out of my comfort zone, because that’s exactly how I felt when I walked into the writing session that created it. My good friend from Berklee, Megan Dervin-Ackerman, who is a brilliant pop writer, introduced me to this incredible producer who apparently lived a 10-minute walk away from me: Myles Avery.”

“I brought some Turkish instruments samples into the session that I recorded over the years with different musicians; I have my custom library of samples of instruments like Ney, Kanun, Yaylı Tanbur. I use them all the time in my tracks; sometimes they’re obviously there, and sometimes you can barely hear what they are. I just enjoy designing unique sounds by using these samples because it’s the most fun way to produce and the possibilities are endless. As soon as Myles heard the Ney, he felt the same way and wanted to build the whole track around it. Megan and I were at his studio in Brooklyn for two days, talking about our struggles as musicians, how our lifestyles and being creative types affected our mood swings. I was already in that head space and hearing them talk about it, too, inspired me to write about it. After those two sessions, I got the rough stems from Myles, re-wrote some of the parts, recorded all the vocals and finished the production.”

“I like working in this manner when I work with other producers- this is how I made (EP) “To Love” as well. It just feels better to finish the production by myself, because I’m so detail-oriented. Just like every song I made before it, I listened to “Coming Undone” hundreds of times before I finally printed the stems and sent them to my mix & mastering engineer, Mike Tuccillo. And now, months after its inception, the time has come for me to part with ‘Coming Undone’; which is both nerve racking and liberating.”

You can check out track “Coming Undone” alongside Turkish language single “ “Belki Bir Gün” and EP track “Eclipse” and its Salt Cathedral remix:

“Eclipse” + (Salt Cathedral remix)

“Belki Bir Gün”