kraKIN, by Ruby Singh

kraKIN

by Ruby Singh

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Take a deep dive into the ecology and lingusitics that make up this double album release in the form of 2 books fused together. With original artworks, lyrics and poetry by Ruby Singh and
Dr. Michael Datura aka professah exile.

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1.	Better Days 05:05	lyrics	buy track
Verse: I’m not guided by the grind or the gears or the greed Imma give what i got, imma take what i need Imma breath the salty air feel the wind in my hair I’m still learning to share with the creatures i care Four breaths to invest in a tidal flow Through my chest on a quest of long ago To bless and express like the wings of a crow You can feel it in your bones when you take life slow we just some westcoast anarchists / avocado amethysts bananas with the cannabis / expanding your parameters beyond the banks & analysts / we live in different Canadas ours be dank & animist / theirs be rank with vanitist they Empire: they clamorous / we come from clams n’ vandalists The Land in us demands a certain candidness / an ampleness a heart that takes some damages / a love that won’t abandon us a place that can inhabit us / & praise for what’s been granted us Chorus: Deep Down feel it in your ghost Sweet Sounds rolling over coasts We Bound hold it real close In your way/ hold the faith/ we will see / better days Verse: I keep my mind strictly tricky / with these pines sticky icky imma whiskey jack o’ gritty lines / our kind quick n’ dizzy finna flip the city swiftly / Van City’s got grizzly history (but) can we kick it?——— “yes we can” A land of mystery / a boat of fools on the periphery schooled in ancient arts like being a gentle mystic viciously linguistics be—a tool of dream, a means of coolah being a way to keep it chiiillll—from 93 to the Chthulucene It’s that new shit flowing out of old lips Follow along like a ghost ship go sift Through the tides in the back of the mind In the taste of waves as they hit the shoreline Designed from the beginning of time is where These rhymes intertwine off line walk in the Shrine Searching for signs when you align your spine with the sublime It’s a prime time to remind and unwind Chorus: Deep Down feel it in your ghost Sweet Sounds rolling over coasts We Bound hold it real close In your way/ hold the faith/ we will see / better days PRAY
2.	Midnight Wings 03:37	lyrics	buy track
Chorus: See the light won’t fade on this world / see the light won’t fade Verse: only built 4 human ostriches /(breath) symbiotic consciousness entangled in the consonance / we Pharoahe Monch / we monstrous() this phosphorescence haunts us with /a universe of consequence thoughts light up the continents / enlightened in the darkest sense a dark defenseif bears arrived in helicopters /terrified these mwafuckaz bring tha noise: bring tha ruckus / bring the flux: bring the fungus (Merlin) bring the storms what summons us / a being that’s thunderous All praise the beings that’s under us / all praise this dream of otherness Chorus: See the light won’t fade on this world / see the light won’t fade Verse: Burnt my tongue on the sun again dealin with these foolish men, hooligans Never listenin to the long distance call Of the fate they spin what it could’ve been Onyx feather to wolf skin we all kin Honest tether to origins for skeletons Promised ember on talons for medicine Sonic centre is woven so let it in let it brim Let it spin swallow the end and let it /begin To seep through your pores Airborne spores melding with your core See it from the shore we intercellular Molecular centaurs my sense soar Over forest floors and these metal wars Looking for a branch to land on—they all gone Weather patterns are feeling wrong but stay calm Something like a Geologic phenomenon Reaching for the ancient beyond to stay strong —Come along Chorus: See the light won’t fade on this world / see the light won’t fade Bridge: We got that fanged tooth // Cloaked in the old truth We got those slang roots // Midnight wings gonna drop the jewels We summon those storm blues // It’ll strike you clean through Watch how the forest moves // Midnight wings gonna drop those jewels Verse: we got you stuck off this alpha-helix / we be the infamous you heard of us / quoth the raven: shit is murderous we just some merciless herbalists / tryna merger with this universal turbulence / this breath, this impermanence my style keep these fowl merchants shook with nervousness we howl at the firmament / we spit these whirling dervishes our shit Copernicus / you’re shit is earthen terminus y’all mumble murmurous / we some pond reflect eternalists
3.	Echolocate 04:23	lyrics	buy track
Verse: Open your mind open your eyes Open the fever we feelin inside Omen or sign showin the guise whole damn system need a redesign (whisper rap up until here) Bout damn time already crossed the line Better act quick with 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 that 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 guardin the gates of dreams Verse: 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 like 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 / hand of the mendicant / ill our relations: cetacean & immanent grace & guerilla grit / nature be killin’ it / come to these shore: 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 holding our children again got us shouldering the burden in vain got us scoldin’ these two-legged frames who complain as they stain & blame the domain shame who’s the Beast that set to the feast that sent the disease in the hands of a priest the lambs of deceit on the lands of the free this scam on repeat on repeat from the very fifirst treaty ink dried in the blood of the stone buried their bones & called it a home let’s roll up tear down they thrones melt ’em all down & 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 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 guardin the gates of dreams 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 thats what we move with
4.	Cross Pollinated 04:59	lyrics	buy track
Verse: Yeah we Infinite instruments intimate with an inner sea Instigating and relating innovating individually Interdependent descendants invoking infinity Incarnated and intertwined we inextricably linked living at the brink, extinct what you think: we outta sync Biorhythmic arrhythmia in a human area Fever pitch like malaria planet wide hysteria eatin amanita muscaria feel the barriers leaving ya Biosonic media to crack this amnesia we ponder ponderosas / wander along a pond of gnosis craft a balm that conjures ghosts of / the phenomenon: the dopest word is bond with chronic dosage / the amphibians still croakin’ green meridians in lotus / fucking simians be locusts god of grass / grant us focus / to assassinate the POTUS dead prez-ences are ghosted /& your residence eroded in a sea of slowly folded / possibilities are floated / in your mind a Kodak moment / in the light—the wind—the motions Chorus: Cross pollinated and calculated to activate it Gods orchestrated it’s all related so consecrate it Laws animated and co-created to elevate it Cause celebrated and integrated—we liberate it Cross mix the cadence / we spadefoot-fated / we agitated Odd & outdated / it’s all negated / this naked hatred Law is degraded / contaminated / we hella jaded Cause devastated / we unrelated—we desecrate it Verse: ay thurthi mera shareer hey \| etho thakhat milthi hay ay paani mera lahoo hey \| Nadi mungu vughda hey sansaar naal melondthahay \| aathma di khuraak hay ay haava mera gith hay \| judh0 drakhat hildda hey ay dhuniya mera dhil \|pahar tho sumundther te dhil tha-bimaar \| sansaar nu agh lagee hey kudrath suday rishthathar \| thu ki sumudgtha Ussi dhuniya tho jhadha \| is dhuniya dha hissa hay (repeat) Chorus: Cross mix the cadence / we spadefoot-fated / we agitated Odd & outdated / it’s all negated / this naked hatred Law is degraded / contaminated / we hella jaded Cause devastated / we unrelated—we desecrate it Cross pollinated and calculated to activate it Gods orchestrated it’s all related so consecrate it Laws animated and co-created to elevate it Cause celebrated and integrated—we liberate it
5.	Tooth'N'Claw 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Verse: yo—straight outta the bog & rep the downtrodden/ weapons is set to lick shots at they squadron they God is goblin/they got a problem/ frogstomp a cop with headshots to the noggin’ (thunder clap) shiiiit—my comrades is Dar-win / We the Amphibians, won’t be forgotten Seasons mad change so we breathe in the autumn / thunder & rain & the heat of the cauldron (siren sounds?)—(exhale) just calm the fuck down put pond in your crown & ponder this sound just stay true & living / just do what you gotta do brother—stay hidden the future’s unwritten / these sutras we spittin’ / is double plus ill ‘til we kill the transmission a villainous vision / the wilderness risen / my syllabus filled with this pilgrimage wisdom Spiral into oblivion solar clustered obsidian arrow idioms Irish and Indian symbionts seen declining amphibians so we put them in musical mediums feel ‘em deep in meridians like they mycelium boons from the womb\| feelin the bloom \| follow the hue \| smokin’ in plumes checkin’ the clues \| searching for true \| when it breakthrough \| like deja\|vu Look at the view \| time’ll break through\| out of the blue \| into the que of destinies loom Weaving a tune with the phase of the moon—true Chorus: Set it off, set it off, this way, yeah we Had enough, we marchin’ on their parade Set it off, set it off, this way Red in tooth & claw, we bring the howl & flames Verse: surrender the math/ enter the vast/ centre with prey that the predator cast vendors of trash / render the crash / vector the way of a nebular craft Embers to ash / temper the slash / render the thunder n lightning that pass Better outlast / remember the wrath/ the future is starting to slip us by fast Ashin lips / ready to spit / ready to counter the punch as it hits fateful tricks / open the crypt / the past is ready to welcome the script by the time it flips / lunar eclipse / f ound in the faith of the storm as it shifts Apocalypse /an apostle trips / blood in the moon and it’s starting to drip Chorus: Set it off, set it off, this way, yeah we Had enough, we marchin’ on their parade so we Set it off, set it off, this way, Red in tooth & claw, we bring the howl & flames Verse 3 we for the children / mad as Madvillian / Wu whole platoon is racoon by the millions we the rebellion / more-than-mycelium / we more-than-human: we luminous filaments shiiiit—you slept on the elements / now you get stunned by this natural intelligence actually relevant / rap as accelerant / blowin’ your mind as a lapse in development (thunder clap) yo—these creatures be stuntin’ / blow up your speakers, lay siege to your pumpkin feel the beat drummin’ / feel the feet thumpin’ / you thunderstuck by the fucking street crumblin’ (big thunder) yo—this ain’t Man versus Nature / this is your kin bein’ like “you a wack neighbor” you shook like glaciers / you catch the vapors / you ‘bout to learn who the realest creators. Chorus: Set it off, set it off, this way, yeah we Had enough, we marchin’ on their parade so we Set it off, set it off, this way, Red in tooth & claw, we bring the howl & flames
6.	Into The Clouds 04:24	lyrics	buy track
Verse: Through the valley and up to your peaks Feet curve on the Earth so it speaks now Sit for a second and sit for minute and Sit for an hour so you might see an image of Those that are airborne air formed in the storm Walking in the land of the gods: better pray hard Better play the odds for time out of mind There's been union in this paradise Colonizer bind got us thinking twice: fuck a vice Imma get lost in a birdsong Let it steer me wrong—migration of a dream gone Catch me with the dawn as it breaks with these 808’s Jays start bouncin’ at just the right pace now Grace is bond and it all belongs—we better catch on Before we pass it on / it’s hard to stay calm when you can’t right a wrong / When you can’t see beyond So we cast it in a song Chorus: Get up and get higher Get your wings gettin flyer Get Up Get Up Get Up Verse: Yo—this life is wonderous / & this life is what you make it but the Industry infinitely perpetuates the fake shiiit Escape the matrix / we on some more-than-human shape shift the mountains are alive: with the music that creates this place as sacred playlist / what makes the booties shake with a grace that never did betray the heart who loved her shameless we wander on / we aimless / we leave with what we came with believe that only you prevent the fires that could change us Rrrrttititat—Now that’s where it’s at: guard a habitat with a rapid tap Punch a hole through the back of this bark like a hole through the dark Stacking bills, making marks with this art—keep it sharp like the edge of wing tips as they kiss the sky—how high?!? We keep it so fly with this battle cry – occupying air like the blade of a samurai Katana folded tongue got it sprung reaching out from these lungs Is it real son? Is it really real son? (Sample: Bring the Pain)— Encoded in the bass drum You can hear the Earth hum —that’s where we coming from Gotta us strummin on the web of life with the edge of a knife —Think twice who's payin’ the price cuz it ain’t right (it ain’t right!) So we take flight from the dawn into the night Taking apart the pattern the pace —making a chart, a ladder to grace Shapin’ up on the matter to face we interlaced through time and space Chorus: Get up and get higher Get your wings gettin flyer Get Up Get Up Get Up Outro: From the mountains we’ve been reaching to the edge of the day All the dreams of our futures seem to pass away (melt away?) taking wings into the wild we pray><prey for them to wake we fade into the clouds while we wait for them to break (go high)
7.	Magnetic North 03:49	lyrics	buy track
LET THEM SPEAK

about

kraKIN is a more-than-human hip-hop collaboration bringing together the sonic stylings of Singh, the amphibious intellect of Dr. Michael Datura (aka professah exile), and a boom-bap menagerie of West Coast plants, amphibians, and mushrooms. In an age of ecological crisis, this multi-species assemblage aims to decompose human dominion and reintegrate our minds with the resonant ecology of a living world. kraKIN creates their unique place based sound by cutting and crossfading samples of field recordings of biomes throughout western canada and incorporating “biosonification”—a technology that translates the bioelectric signature of flora, fauna and fungi into musical information.

Singh named his latest project, kraKIN, based on the birth of the project in the Octopus Islands, the habitat of the giant pacific red octopus, in Desolation Sound. The tracks include everything from cedar tree basslines, wolf-howl and orca song synths, fungi-triggered 808s, to woodpecker hi-hats —resulting in an ecological portrait aiming to shapeshift perceptions and help us stay awake to the ways of the world.

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released November 17, 2023

Ruby Singh : Production, Composition, Lyrics and Vocals
Michael Datura aka professah exile: Lyrics and Vocals

Holly Eccleston: Vocals and Harmonies
Raul Espinoza aka DJ Su Commandante: Turntables

Mixed by Alex Penney @Monarch Studios
Mastered by Greg Mindorff @Suite Sound Labs

Cover Art by Ruby Singh
Designed by Laz

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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 ... more