All Nouveau Disco fans should shuffle on over to iTunes where Environ Records has just released the new Kelley Polar single Chrysanthemum.

The single is a soft and mellow track with nice sound efffects and, of course, some beautiful strings. It’s lyrics carry a pretty explicit anti-war message.

Where would Kelley Polar get the idea for an anti-war disco tune? In his off time from producing and touring his successful Nouveau Disco project, Kelley Polar aka Mike Kelley, (incidentally he’s also the brother of Soft Pink Truth / Matmos guest and performance maven Blevin Blechtum) is the violist in the piano quartet called the Apple Hill Chamber Players.

Apple Hill Chamber Players give classical music master classes and scholarships to young musicians from war-ravaged areas around the globe. Apple Hill Chamber Players have performed in Palestine, Isreal, the Balkans, Algeria and Northern Ireland in their nearly 20 year history. Recently they’ve toured the Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union They also run a summer festival and chamber music camp out of an old horse farm in New Hampshire.

Funny enough, Mike Kelley doesn’t even mention his work with as Kelley Polar on the Apple Hill Website.

The new single is pretty great though, and the b-side is fantastic too!

There’s also a video for the song, Environ’s first ever video, actually, here.

Check it out!