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Below The Radar 44

Track 7

Kulku

"Black River Run Run!"

Previously unreleased

Kulku embodies an exhilarating ‘happening’, a profound ceremony of raw music. Organic, driven, grounded yet floating. The roots of their music grew out of influences from early minimal music (Moondog, Steve Reich), ritual music and art rock legends of the 1960s. In the tradition of German Krautrock bands such as Can and Faust, the band is characterised by a sound whose raw material is made up of Orff instruments. With this special collection of instruments: metallophone, drums, orchestral timpani, xylophone, clarinet, saxophone, cello and an assortment of self-made instruments a universe of metaphysical stories is created. Stories about enlightened dogs or lost visionaries in the urban jungle full of light and shadows. An acoustic perpetuum-mobile that is fed by concentrated absorption. Exploring the sound spectrum of wood, metal and the human voice. Kulku calls their music No Age, a mix of un- kitsch spirituality and the raw energy of punk/no wave Kulku has released two albums so far: Bohemian Drips presents Kulku (Bohemian Drips, 2016) and Fahren (Phase Group, 2022).

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