Better Days

from 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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Lands and Skies:
Tla-o-qui-aht Nation

Origins:
Binaural recording of Pacific Ocean
Dried Mussel Shells
Red-Legged Frog
Belted Kingfisher
Steller’s Jay
Raven

Biosonifications:
Leafy Aster: Bassline
Step Moss: Synth
Old Man’s Beard: Cello
Bull Kelp: Kick Drum
Sennen Kathryn Seitcher: Piano

lyrics

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

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from kraKIN, released November 17, 2023

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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