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Golconda

by Aerial View

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Andy Nix Brendan kills the drums in this album. The vocals are tight and modern, but aren't lackluster like a lot of modern songs. Very good listen Favorite track: With Eyes Unseeing.
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1.
I Run 05:32
Among the rungs of the desolate cityscape As they chase me down the twisting alleyways Within the empty tenements I’ll escape Surely they won’t find me I run, doesn't matter who from Through empty strip malls, parking lots Through thousand foot forests And crumbling city blocks They wouldn’t search every vacant room On every floor of every vacant skyrise Their hounds could sniff for days But not every potential hiding spot Leave the hangar or the warehouse Where it’s easier to spot movement Scamper down the hallways like a mouse To the fields where I’ll escape Past the orange glow of the industrial lights Where I’ll get out of sight, conceal me, Though the forest’s dense and dark I’ll brave the black night What’s it that causes me to want to run? Through empty strip malls, parking lots Through thousand foot forests And crumbling city blocks I run, doesn't matter who from
2.
Golconda 04:20
Crush you under Corporate fingers Lest you try to act against us Strip you naked for the prison Cut the earth with Giant scissors ‘Nuisance in the way of my manifest destiny’ ‘Live our will, be our serfs and, Let your helplessness become your guide,’ They can play malevolent gods But their broad facade, you recognize This is what occurs when they realize you won’t bow Water cannons in freezing weather Thrown grenades and Silent anchors Lest you try to act against us Freeze you up and Starve you out They who think us nothing more than ants Ghosts of past relentless greed never left, I must understand Where's the fiery pioneer with the slaughterhouse mentality? He is now the CEO, “I let the sheriff do my work for me” Silence isn’t peace in this Golconda that you keep from me
3.
We sit in this prison that you made for us But the funny thing is you’re in here too Powerful men mould your mind, convincing you the blame’s on us Filled with anger while the real reason escapes you Who is the silent majority? Sneaking round the annals of history A decision away from kristallnacht The person sitting next to me I swing from the strings of brats and bullies’ ignorance Who is the silent majority Watching from their windows with apathy “Decisions are made by someone else My ignorance, I take pride in” We swing from the strings of monolithic companies We’ve been pushed backwards but we’re not powerless We sit in this prison that you made for us But the funny thing is you’re in here too Powerful men mould your mind, convincing you the blame’s on us Filled with anger while the real reason escapes you
4.
A haven, the forest was And their home was on the earth There was wonder in the vines and Each flower had its worth Then it took them away and shoved them indoors Cuffed them to the chairs To move no more Their Faces to the floor The stress they can’t absorb Emotions torn apart But their mouths must remain shut Then it took them away and shoved them indoors Cuffed them to the chairs To move no more Shaping was mandatory They were put on the tray and burned within the oven ‘Til they hardened like a clay So when the time came to return to the forest They looked with eyes unseeing

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released May 10, 2017

Kieran Nkanza: vocals, lyrics, guitar, bass, percussion, synth, programming
Brendan Brady: drums, percussion, synth
Additional Vocals On “With Eyes Unseeing” by Jenna Jill Balderson

All songs written by Kieran Nkanza
Produced and Engineered by Kieran Nkanza and Mat Leffler-Schulman (of Mobtown Studios)
Mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering

Recorded at Mobtown Studios, Kieran's House, UMBC and Tonton Pida's Apartment

Album artwork by Sam McKenzie
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Mobtown Studios
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Impressionist rock from Baltimore, Maryland.

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