Karkara Announce Nowhere Land Due Nov. 23; New Video Posted
Preorders are up now through Stolen Body Records, the band directly and Ghost Lizard Diffusion for the second album from Toulouse, France-based heavy psych rockers Karkara. Titled Nowhere Land and reportedly composed while touring to support their 2019 debut, Crystal Gazer (review here), the record has already sold through a significant portion of its initial pressing. Karkara‘s Bandcamp page as of this writing has just 32 copies of its 300 total still available, so it seems fair to expect those might go before, say, the next two and a half months are done.
All the better for the band, then. They’re streaming a new video for “Falling Gods” that finds them out among sand dunes pulling together a Middle Eastern-inflected blend of progressive and heavy riffing, guitarist Karim Rihani and drummer Maxime Marouani splitting vocal duties between the verses and chorus. Everything would seem to be in good order following up on the debut, in other words.
Clip is at the bottom here. You’ll also see preorder links on your way down. Stolen Body posted the following:
Karkara – Nowhere Land
A deafening echo that suddenly speaks out of the dust, conveying all the desolation of an endless landscape up to the sky. A journey for those who like exotic rock to sound viscerally loud, raw and high gained. To blow up the speakers for good. Fuzzed guitar and Buzzing didgeridoo locked with a sped up drums and cranked bass sound that makes you feel like you are riding a spacecraft at full speed between the dunes.
KARKARA’s second album, “Nowhere land” explores the mysteries of the unknown lands. An album that drags the comfort out of your zone and creates an eerie space of atmospheric low-end and sneering highs.
7 tracks that take a further step into a dark and mystical world. This album is a straight continuity of ‘Crystal Gazer’. The second chapter of a journey made by a traveler who discovers new lands and mysterious people. Written during Crystal Gazer’s tours, among long rides between gigs and rehearsals in south France. Recorded in Toulouse at SwampLand studio and using only analog equipements to add that raw Lo-fi flavor they love.
Created in 2017 in Toulouse, France, the threesome takes inspiration among different rock genre, from the sweet middle eastern psychedelic rock to the raw shattering sounds of garage fuzz and german krautrock.
Even going so far as to use their favourite atypical instrument – the didgeridoo – the three members of KARKARA, like desert wizards, take pleasure in pushing further the boundaries of the genre and take their audience into a mystical and indomitable world.
TRACK LIST :
01. Deliverance (5:46)
02. Space Caravan (6:24)
03. Falling Gods (3:55)
04. People Of Nowhere land (6:04)
05. Setting Sun (4:14)
06. Cards (4:30)
07. Witch (5:33)
Preorders:
https://karkara.bandcamp.com/
https://bit.ly/337wgrp
Artwork by Dead Flag Studios
KARKARA is:
Karim Rihani – guitar / didgeridoo / vocals
Hugo Olive – bass
Maxime Marouani – drums / vocals
https://www.facebook.com/karkararock/
https://www.instagram.com/karkara_band/
https://karkara.bandcamp.com/
https://stolenbodyrecords.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/stolenbodyrecords/
https://www.instagram.com/stolenbodyrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/Ghost-Lizard-Diffusion-1003831926422650/
