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Ganja

by KU

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1.
A Happening 04:16
The secrets of youth hidden in choices Their official use is inspiring promises And time after time this weight isn't mine I crash on formalities Definite stares mercurial loyalty I'm oozing with lust fear and uncertainty And time after time I'll wait till you're mine till you frame my liberties Losing my touch of formidability Submerging again in fortified infantry And time after time in action and mind I'll dissolve inside of me
2.
Hyacinth 02:56
Throw the ornamental burdens that you wear keep the things that you forget in your despair Paper bridges that you walked thin white lines drawn with chalk and this stench of treason in the air There are functions that I still have to admire the impossible arrangements of your life All the gestures and the steps that will lead you to regret that you stayed with me another day Hear me calling at you it's the hyacinth rule Does it sound like my voice or does it sound like you? Terrify me once more with your smile make me look like someone else just for a while If we try to make it straight then the news will circulate and we'll never see the light of day again Hear me calling at you it's the hyacinth rule Does it sound like my voice or does it sound like you?
3.
Turque 09:03
Your skin gets soft in the springtime Your alphabet gets smaller Your eyes look bigger and bigger You're tuned into your reflection Your sung numerical landscapes will lash out on some frozen shore Your babies unborn in the summertime A lesson still unlearned Receiving nothing Deciding nothing more A slow and cunning killer His eyes are fiery cones He climbs up your room in the nighttime His knife is new and honed Deceiving no one Describing nothing more
4.
Dry Dates 04:15
Taste on my flesh while you can I'm your invisible friend Waiting for years to understand you will fall Feverish eyes on a raid always bold and unafraid Making my best to estimate your control Kiss me like you never have It's me who opened this thread Tracing your steps to overcome your support
5.
I am accused of total ignorance I am amused by its deliverance Fearless and strong I claim my innocence I am a statue of blind obedience Frozen and alone, in time and always tangible Just a minimum supply is impossible This colony of self-promoting fleas stitched on my mind feel like a second skin Master of this troubled mind, sound and credible Will the war last long?  guess it's just possible
6.
-Sister of hope where did you go? -I had my time wondrous time oh well, you know... Sitting inside watching the tide and sucking my thumb -Sister of hope you, marvelous joke Did I annoy you maybe when I told you we're born alone? -Despite my head I understand What you did to me shines right through me I wanted you dead
7.
Oolong 06:36
I'm into you It's all the same and all the same I've seen this through It never waits, it never waits It's all the same I want to lose that awful shame, but I am the same There's always two that play this game and take the blame It's all the same For the names oh the ones they're calling us are the ones that our bones can stand Terror and fear won't get you anyway Certain emotions can't ruin your day Blind dedication and instant regret Different authorities that you forget Fools rush in As it's always been Seven days a week I pretend I feel the ambition in everybody else It's just a matter of exquisite taste Come in my room and make this your fault I have been always afraid of your thoughts Fools rush in As it's always been Seven days a week I pretend I feel In a house of burning coals I tried to strike a pose For the names oh the ones they're calling us are the ones that our bones can stand
8.
Cypriol 03:20
If I could see the light that burns me through I would have turned it off because of you And every sleepless night that passes by I would have understood your every lie The stars appalling (what are you waiting for?) The music bores me (to even up the score?) You take me in your arms just like a child and you control me with a heartfelt eye The loving that we share is like a fire it burns the world and both of us inside The sky is falling (exploding from your core) The earth is longing (wait till you see some more) And you're the one I was waiting for

about

Since KU’s 2013 debut “Feathers”, many things have changed. Inside a turmoil of global and personal changes with an aftermath taking the lead and while his other projects (Jay Glass Dubs and The Hydra) started taking off, he decided it was time for all the material laying dormant in his demos to take shape into a second album.

Spiraling from the throbbing force of “A Happening” to the shuttered melancholy of “Cypriol”, “Ganja” is an album of departures and arrivals, a faint signature of a life past and the decision for a new one. The album's lyrics are the main objective. Holding strong position on matters such as power, love, ambition and depression, it underlines the addiction that may come to all of the above separately and simultaneously.

Like the plant that gave the album its name, the music in “Ganja” is a beneficial parasite, a strong symbiotic and a deja-vu of emotions, smells, melodies and orchestrations, indefinable yet so specific. The instrumentation is deliberately as elemental as possible, emphasizing on the essence of sound. Space guitars, Battiato-ian moogs, persuasive percussion and hummed protoelectronics juxtaposed with acoustic fragility, choral grandiose and white reggae moods reveal a process that is never militant towards one direction.

Recorded live in its larger amount, with the talent, musicianship and knowledge of his long time collaborators Baby Guru in their Marginalia Studio and produced by the band's Prins Obi and King Elephant as well as KU himself, in Mondays between May and June 2015, “Ganja” is a personal story sung and played between friends who fight, love, decide and forget each other but never unknow what brings them together. That sacramental moment when everything is in sync and the words and sounds float freely and fill up the room like smoke from a dried out herb.

“Ganja” is out on LP and digital album via Inner Ear.

credits

released March 13, 2017

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Music and lyrics by KU
Additional music by Baby Guru
Produced by King Elephant, Prins Obi and KU
Recorded at Marginalia Studio on Mondays
between May and June 2015
Engineered and mixed by King Elephant
Mastered by Yiannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot
Art direction by KU
Layout by d/B

Musicians:
A Happening
King Elephant: drums, noise, saxophone // KU: vocals, noise // Prins Obi: keyboards, Moog synthesizer

Hyacinth
King Elephant: percussion, keyboards // KU: vocals // Prins Obi: keyboards

Turque
King Elephant: drums, Moog synthesizer, percussion // Kon Kon: electric guitar // KU: vocals // Prins Obi: organ, percussion // Sir Kosmiche: bass

Dry Dates
King Elephant: percussion // Kon Kon: acoustic guitar // KU: vocals // Prins Obi: organ

Spring Elevator
King Elephant: drums, percussion // Kon Kon: electric guitar // KU: vocals // Prins Obi: keyboards, Moog synthesiser, percussion // Sir Kosmiche: bass

Olympic Complex
KU: vocals // Prins Obi: piano

Oolong
King Elephant: percussion, drums // KU: vocals, synthesizer // Prins Obi: Moog synthesizer, keyboards, organ

Cypriol
Kon Kon: acoustic guitar // KU: vocals // Sir Kosmiche: ring
modulator

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KU Athens, Greece

Dimitris Papadatos (b.1981,USA) is a composer, musician and sound artist based in Athens Greece.
At the moment he actively runs three projects: ΚU, Jay Glass Dubs and The Hydra
KU is Dimitris Papadatos' singer - songwriter project. The songwriting practice is mainly based on improvisational techniques and oblique strategies and the lyrics are based on his yet unpublished poetry.
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