Karkara to Release Crystal Gazer Oct. 25
Here’s the simplest post I’m going to put together today. The info for this album came down the PR wire. I skimmed through it in that way I do when I’m most likely three-quarters asleep — which is most of the time these days — said to myself, “well that might be cool,” put it on, it was, so I’m posting about it. Done. It could not possibly be easier or more straightforward than that.
A cosmic trio based in Toulouse, France, Karkara will release their debut album, Crystal Gazer, on Oct. 25 through Stolen Body Records. They’ve got opening track “Proxima Centaury” streaming now, and it’s both a spiritual and a sonic gateway into the rest of the LP that follows. Take my word for it or don’t, but know that I wouldn’t try to purposefully steer you wrong or mess with your day — or at least not do so surreptitiously; there’s some stuff that gets posted around here very much intent on messing with your day — and rather that I’m putting this here for the opposite purpose.
Have at it:
Karkara ‘Crystal Gazer’ (Stolen Body Records)
Explosive power trio that furiously mixes garage / fuzz and middle eastern sounds, KARKARA is an unprecedented project that takes the gamble of glueing together the East and the West sound in a common goal: transcendence. Created in 2017 in Toulouse – France- under the idea of the guitarist and the bassist and inspired by the psychedelic rock scene of the Middle East and the Maghreb of the 60s and 70s, the band combines its traditional inspirations with a visceral taste for the shattering sounds of garage fuzz and contemporary krautrock.
Even going so far as to use their favorite atypical instrument – the didgeridoo – the three members of KARKARA, like desert wizards, take pleasure in pushing the boundaries of the genre further and take their audience into a mystical and indomitable world.
Their debut album «Crystal Gazer», recorded at Swampland studio and mastered by the American producer Jim Diamond, who had recorded and collaborated with the White Stripes in Detroit under Ghetto Records in the 90’s, is a hypnotic musical production inspired by the mystical folklores all around the middle eastern countries. With the collaboration of the illustrator Dead Flag who was an additional source of imagination, this 7 tracks LP of 41 minutes is a deafening psychedelic flood where the desert and the tribal atmosphere is omnipresent.The lyrics take the form of a mystical and narratives incantations that draw the thread of an epic journey that unfolds throughout all the album.
Tracklisting:
1. Proxima Centaury
2. The Way
3. Camel Rider
4. Into Orchard
5. Crystal Gazer
6. Zarathoustra
7. Jedid
KARKARA is:
Karim Rihani – guitar / didgeridoo / vocals
Hugo Olive – bass
Maxime Marouani – drums / vocals
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https://karkara.bandcamp.com/
https://stolenbodyrecords.co.uk/
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