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Echolocate

by Ruby Singh's kraKIN

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EchoLocate, the first single from kraKIN, is inspired by the Southern Resident Orca community off the west coast of so-called “canada.” In 2018 Tahlequah, the matriarch orca of the Jpod, carried her stillborn calf 1600 kilometers over 17 days, as a gesture of mourning and a clear cross-species communication to us humans. Fast forward to now, when orcas are carrying out coordinated attacks in different seas around the globe against human intrusions into their homes. This song was created to challenge and question the colonial and capitalist powers that carry on ignoring the devastation in their wake. You will hear orca song, exhalations and echolocation mixed and chopped for melodic and rhythmic purposes; as well as field recordings of waves, the crunch of dried crab shells, and bull kelp biosonified basslines taken from Desolation Sound. Singh and Datura's rapid lyrics cut deep into historic hard truths and stretch to the stars with sci-fi surrealism. Singh created the accompanying video to mirror the lyrics with a digital collage of underwater worlds, taking us to futures where whales have mastered interstellar communication and can travel to multidimensional distant worlds.

lyrics

Open your mind open your eyes
Open the fever we feelin’ inside
Omen or sign showin’ the guise
whole damn system need a redesign
Bout damn time already crossed the line
Better act quick in this fleeting time
Tic toc toe tag intertwined
Find us praying at a barren shrine
Barren tide on a barren coast
Bear in in mind these words can float
Like a plankton growth or a salmon’s ghost
Clear your throat or learn to choke
Interdependent we’ve chosen our faith
Future descendants are on the next wave
Extinction event better mind our fate
best echo locate to find our way


Chorus
Set us free now in the winds of the open seas
From the reach of the flyest breech to the darkest edge of the deep
Set us free now from the grips of your golden greed
To the place of the garden sea where we guarding the gates of dreams
Set us free now in the winds of the open seas
Set us free from the grips of the golden greed
Set us free now to the darkest edge of the deep
Set us free


imagine an island / fathom the silence / salmon return but they burn with defiance / used to be giants / true to the science / used to be sacred & naked as diamonds / take from our kind with / hatred & blindness / six million ways to die faded & mindless fuck with Divineness / you gonna find us / up in your grill with some krill in your finance / KraKIN is imminent / maps is our instruments / rap is the voice of the land when you intimate
patterns be intricate / matter is infinite / rather be dirty & earthly than innocent / worthy & penitent / hands of the mendicant / ill our relation cetacean & immanent / grace & guerilla grit / nature be killin’ it / come to the shores: become more-than & militant

Got us, chasin’ a sonic wave
Got us, catchin’ the prey we crave
Got us breachin the breath of the brave
Through the pain to attain our claim to remain
—Shame

(Got us) holdin’ our children again
Got us shoulder’n the burnden in vain
Got us, scoldin’ these two legged frames
Who complain as they stain and blame the domain
—Shame

Who’s the beast that set to the feast
That sent the disease in the hands of a priest so
The lambs of deceit on the land of the free
This scam on repeat from the very first treaty
Ink dried in the blood of the stone
Barried their bones and called it home
Let’s roll up tear down their thrones
Melt’em all down and turn ’em into poems

Oracle dorsal fin with nautical tale winds / adorable mortal kin with orbital whale spins Audible portal bends recordable oceans / Impossible coral lends remarkable song sent
Across a planet we inhabit and ravage imagine
When a melody could carry across a sea (whale call breakdown)
A remedy for entropy An entity Of empathy
of majesty entangled in the gravity that centred in the sanctity so set them free

Chorus:
Set us free now in the winds of the open seas
From the reach of the flyest breech to the darkest edge of the deep
Set us free now from the grips of your golden greed
To the place of the garden sea where we guarding the gates of dreams
Set us free now in the winds of the open seas
Set us free from the grips of the golden greed
Set us free now to the darkest edge of the deep
Set us free



Sins of stars, sinistar Suns of solar, eclipse, flips
Radiant lips dipping in polars, slipping in sonar
So far the symbol starts tripping the tongue scar
Radium bars, gripping bizarre we czars like quasars
Active on a galactic nucleus, these tactics be ruthless
Climatic hubris—that’s what we move with…

credits

released September 21, 2023
Produced & Composed by Ruby Singh
Lyrics & Vocals by Ruby Singh and professah exile (Dr. Michael D. Datura)
Background Vocals by Holly Eccleston
Turntables by DJ Su Commandante
Artwork by: Ruby Singh
Design and Layout by Rob Eccles
Mixed by Alex Penny at Monarch Studios
Mastered by Brock McFarlane at CPS Studios

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Ruby Singh Vancouver, British Columbia

Ruby Singh's creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, visual art, photography and film. His expressions engage with mythos, memory, identity, justice and fantasy; where the surreal can shatter the boundaries of the real. Singh's personal and collaborative works have been presented across Turtle Island, India, Germany and the UK.
For more info check out www.rubysingh.ca
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