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Echolocate

from kraKIN by Ruby Singh

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Lands and Skies:
Klahoose, Tla’amin & Homalco Nations

Origins:
Field Recording of Smelt Bay
Dried Red Rock Crab Shells
Orca Exhalation
Orca Echolocation
Orca Song

Biosonifcation:
Bull Kelp: Bassline

lyrics

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

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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

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