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Kailash

by Queen Elephantine

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I spent seven years on the foothills of lingam Black, phallic, with carved white arches on his forehead It was satisfied with broken coconuts and goat's blood Bald women and men on their knees Threw deep oms and chanted flat sanskrit hymns The madness was in the floor Glossed in a layer of holy water and dirt Circling, marking ancient patterns I felt out of place I dropped nameless, orange flowers around the idol without feeling Embrace the caravan lights! Children roll inside of large tires down a river made of glass. The surface of the water is very thin so they do not float in comfort. The girls will grow up to be women and the boys will grow up to be lost. They are the children of abandoned carnivals. The details of their mothers and fathers have been lost to the river of glass. Carried away by moths that eat the sweaters of the poorest men, they become hard as stones because of the cold. At home the children look through the windows of their small rooms, watching their fathers shiver with wide eyes. Now the faces of the children all point to the grey sky, to a lonely skycraper that hides the sun. One day, they will all stand on the roof of that building with their legs chained to poles, dreams of breaking free cutting deep into their ankles. And after a long time they'll kiss their legs goodbye and trust to their wings... and trust to their wings to fly them to heaven.
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Gloaming 11:54
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Priest 11:59
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Khora 16:00

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Queen Elephantine’s second long-playing venture is Kailash. The album takes its name and guiding spirit from the mystical Himalayan peak on which the Destroyer dwells in the state of perpetual meditation, in the deathless state.

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released May 1, 2010

Indrayudh Shome, Rajkishen Narayanan, Brett Zweiman, Andrew Jude Riotto, Chris Dialogue, Oliver Ignatius

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Queen Elephantine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A nebulous worship of heavy mood and time, formed in Hong Kong in 2006 and now based in USA.

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