Karamika by Karamika

Karamika is the soundscape to a journey authored by George Thompson (Black Merlin) and Gordon Pohl (Musiccargo), an expansive collaboration that spans 12 tracks and a 600 kilometer commute between London and Düsseldorf. This double LP is the bi-product of a creative simpatico, their quest to articulate a vision void of any defined lyrical or melodic language. The instrumentation is a balanced palette of hard and soft, light and dark, pristine and corroded, droning and orchestral, crafting narratives out of unexpected elements so weathered and rich that each carries a lifetime of character within — tin cans rusting in the desert dust, dewdrops pattering on overgrown foliage, swarms of locusts writhing in song — abstractions culminating in a parallax view of the world through Karamika's eye. This is savage music, uncontrolled, unrelenting, impenetrable.