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Anima Mysterium

by Yugen Blakrok

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Picture Box 03:39
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Carbon Form 03:15
CARBON FORM Cosmic breath, I’m air element, find strength in the mental The thought behind the rhyme’s consequential The flow’s decked in space boots, leaping over lunar tombs Write lyrics in runes and play the Muse Inspire Fate to paint predestination’s landscapes For the awakened, imaginations are stargates Whistle, I’m listening – Pilgrim of the House of the Wind, I’m the emissary Hearing voices in the breeze observing airy commentary Asleep in howling deserts with thorn trees in bloom Until the spell breaks, I’m wolf to the full moon And wild as the monsoon, glassy eyes like crushed minerals The pattern’s troublesome – planet’s crying rivers of literals Wooden tears flaking into fragments and splintering Buried in the earth where dark secrets lie whispering That the end has not yet come to the place where dreams rest at I look at self, facing the mirror, nothing’s reflected Black stone carbon, I’m stardust Bizarre, trust – quiet, part-mime invade the mind like archons My jargon’s a headache to decipher, never idle The heavy burden’s only light work to bright disciples And I’m sky bound, messenger like Malachi Cardinal offspring of Capricorn and Gemini Born from a sandstorm, whirlwinds in my burning eyes Slayed a beast with seven tongues, electrifying So I vibrate in coded synergy, linguistics my Achilles heel Wade in stellar waters deep, a mystic whistling in the reeds That cosmic breath, that air element that finds strength in the mental Make all doubts of the mind inconsequential
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Ochre 04:07
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Land Of Gray 04:50

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Five years after releasing Return of the Astro-Goth, Yugen Blakrok descends from the vast cosmos and delivers to the world an impressive lesson in style, with her second album Anima Mysterium. Far from the stars but heavy with their radiant wisdom; it’s towards Earth, humanity and the obscurity at its core that the South African rapper directs her incantations.
Accompanied by Kanif the Jhatmaster’s beats, Yugen’s flow sows the frontiers of a world where the subconscious frees itself and confronts man with his most hidden secrets. Yugen’s poetry has something Ovidian, depicting her as an agent of Metamorphosis, a reincarnated goddess in terrestrial form calling humanity to itself.

“Why in the deepest darkness my soul beams like a lantern
Engineered in female form...silent carrier of the force
I'm a sandstorm in desert dunes, a shadow with a torch”
Land of Gray, Yugen Blakrok

The osmosis between Yugen’s words and Kanif’s instrumentals comes across from the first listen. On Return of the Astro-Goth, the astrological ideas covered by the rapper found a perfect canvas in the mix of wind instruments, dub and electronic echoes from the beatmaker. Here, Yugen lays hers flow over instrumentals of rock, jazz and even at times something that sounds close to witch-house. The project, released under French label I.O.T Records, extracts the essential oils from hip-hop as seen by the two artists, whose creative freedom and artistic integrity contrast with the current rigid codes of the genre. At their sides they have rallied to their musical odyssey artists from South Africa and the US, including hip-hop legend Kool Keith himself.

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released February 1, 2019

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All songs written by Yugen Blakrok (except where noted) and composed by Kanif The Jhatmaster with appearances from Joel Assaizky on 'Carbon Form' and 7th Galaxy on 'Obsidian Night'.

Recording and Mixing of all vocals and instruments by Kanif at Scoremachine Studio, Iapetus Studios and Point29 (Marseille, FR)

'Carbon Form' recorded and mixed by Joel Assaizky at Scoremachine Studio, Johannesburg.
'Mars Attacks' recorded by Tom at Point29, Marseille and mixed by Kanif.
Final Mix and Mastering by Joel at Scoremachine Studio, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Photograph by Christopher Terhart.
Layout by Spooky. Additional artwork by Soopanat.

IOT67CD / © 2018 I.O.T Records / CYLID. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

All songs published by CYLID, except Mars Attacks : Published by CYLID & Reverend Tom Music/Notting Dale Songs, and Morbid Abakus: Published by CYLID and Liuto Edizion Musicali

LABEL : I.O.T Records / aymeric@iot-records.org / +33 (0)6 27 26 85 07

PUBLISHING : CYLID / cylidpublishing@iot-records.org

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