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Shape Memory

by Robin Kester

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The music for Shape Memory is based on the verse of an unfinished song, stripped it down to just the bass line, which really sparked something and I ended up writing a brand new track. I wrote the song while I was feeling anxious about the side effects of ADHD medication and read about the Shape Memory Effect: how certain types of metal will bend back to their former shapes when heated. Like paper clips made out of nitinol: you can straighten them up, but when you heat them they’ll go right back to their original paper clip shape.I felt a connection with that paper clip; bent out of my original form with the medication, but I’d snap right back to my former self when I wasn’t taking them.

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Eyes on the screen, I’ve been waiting forever
You heat things up and I snap back into what I was
Like metal remembering how it was bent
I will turn to my original pose, once more

Shape memory
Can’t forget
The strangeness of changing it back again

Eyes on the screen I’ve been watching forever
You heat things up but I melt and spill over the floor
Like mourning doves resting on overhead wire
I see you as someone who’s passing me by below

Shape memory
Can’t forget
The strangeness of changing it back again
Shape
Memory
Keep
Showing me

How does it feel
you must have secretly known
something’s alive
And it wants to stay

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released April 12, 2024
Produced by Robin Kester & Wanness Salomé
Recorded by Wanness Salomé en Sam van Hoogstraten
Robin Kester: vocals, guitar, keys
Wanness Salomé: keys, bass, synth
Lisa Jonker: drums
Silvan van der Zwaag: clarinet, guitar

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Robin Kester Rotterdam, Netherlands

Drifting between chamber pop, electronic music and psychedelic rock, Kester’s experimental pop exudes a hazy euphoria and dark tension.

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