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Haku

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    From the opening, drawn-out synth lines on, "E.T ( Extended Technique)" to the echoing bass fueled finish on "Haku" - Denver-based Ramakhandra's debut "S/T" crackles with otherworldly energy.

    Recorded and mixed by LA-based engineer Bradley Giroux, who worked on Kamasi Washington’s Heaven & Earth, this record was lovingly crafted by four creative minds pooling their imaginations to create visions of another reality with echoes of our own world. These tracks can be compared to Flying Lotus, Little Dragon, or Hiatus Kaiyote, but that would only tell part of the story. This band exists within a world all its own.

    Listening to this record is like voyaging through an undiscovered country filled with creatures from anime, popular culture, and video games. Taken as a whole it feels like the sonic equivalent of a Studio Ghibli film, but you can also get easily lost in their universe by looking at the beauty in every stroke of soundwaves. These songs breathe with life, like on the environmental fable “Kujira,” in which a whale sprouts wings to escape an earth ruined by humanity, or “Andromeda Soup Dumpling,” a dreamland anthem about not losing hope as your loved ones succumb to illness.

    Each song digs deep into the internal and external crises facing humanity, but recasts them in magic and hope, remaking sadness and struggle into beauty. Nowhere is this more evident than on the rallying cry of “Haku,” where thunder and lightning crash overhead as singer/harpist Annastezhaa sings a battle mantra of rebirth.

    Ramakhandra is music to wrap yourself in, one moment it's raindrops falling on your face, the next it’s an inter-dimensional storm soaking you to your very essence. But above all, it's breathtaking.

    Track List:

    E.T. Extended Technique / What Giants Dream Of

    Andromeda Soup Dumpling

    Kujira

    Ronin Ramen Shaman

    March of the Ents

    Haku


    Credits:

    All songs written & performed by Ramakhandra

    Recorded and mixed by Bradley Giroux

    Mastered by Keith Gretlain

    Album cover by Shintaro Kago

    Duration : 44 minutes 10 seconds


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lyrics

We left home, drove
To the sound wave soaked sandstone
Striking from the east, I melted in my slanted seat
The mountainside sang lachrymosely
While the white molting meadow mirrored
The hemming and hawing in me
Cried to find the courage in me
While it rained in my heart, the clouds hung low
Rolling brush beyond the red rocks groaned
Saying, “You are no longer asleep! No rest until the rest are free”
Convicted by what is now known
Centered, alive, our hearts overflow
Now all they can see
Is the sound of our fire
Ripping and sawing
Through a dream

Inward to the golden sun
And you become the rarest love
In your position
Do you remember us?
Let go, let go!
Like water, a formless one
Blessed from seeing unicorns, and our fire!

We haven’t given up on our fight
We surface with the strength of I and I
We know someone has been lying
And now we’re looking for the signs

We are the fire and the flame,
We are the water and the wave that breaks -
Forevermore
And though we die,
We’ll always rise with terrifying force

Now we prepare to fight a war we’ve already won
We know who we are
It was over before it ever begun
And we never fear death
Because we go on and on and on
We feel it in this endless moment

Inward to the golden sun
Now, our fire has gone
Like water a formless one
Our presence is unknown
So let go, let go!

And soon they’ll feel the fire
Now let’s get going to fight
Now we’re looking for the signs

We are the fire and the flame,
We are the water and the wave that breaks -
Forevermore
And though we die,
We’ll always rise with terrifying force

Now we prepare to fight a war we’ve already won
We know who we are
It was over before it ever begun
And we never fear death
Because we go on and on and on
We feel it in this endless moment

So catch a soul fire
Watch us on fire!
Watch us all catch a soul fire

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from Ramakhandra, released June 19, 2020

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Ramakhandra Denver, Colorado

Ramakhandra are a music megazord made up of a cosmic harpist/vocalist, an intergalactic whale of a bass player, a master Atari synth player, and supported by a space-time continuum bending drummer.

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