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Pyramid

by Ka Safar

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Ishan-Sattva An absolutely mesmerising piece of music! Transported me straight to the sahara! Nicely put together and great selection of instruments used along with vocals! Love this!!! Favorite track: Pyramid.
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afanfanes Fresh, vibrant and introspective sound! Plenty of interesting timbres, textures and dynamics! Great ♥️ Favorite track: Pyramid.
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monday19 So many feelings rolled in to one track. There's jazz, but there's also a groove. There's spirituality. There's a sense of psychedelia.
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Oh! Friends of good nature!

A thousand welcomes of great warmth from Ka Safar! And that, at a truthfully splendorous time, for hither, by crying throws comes the birthing of our own very first song, ‘Pyramid’. And beyond even that, as echoed by the merchants of this here omniscient camp, through her burning portals bright, arrives this very sonnet, to you, dear reader!

An age in the making, such as the great pyramid’s themselves: From the seminal morning of our year’s first Piscean sunrise until the falling of the Hunter's Moon, a lowly tuneful scribe burned oil those many nights at his great tablet made of precious and magical metals, forging hieroglyphic pathways, around which the Ka Safarians would gather, and from thence, make their unanimous and untold journeys onward.

Pyramid’s mysterious rhythms - echoes to the very heartbeats of the pharaohs themselves - speak of the Trinity number 3 and also the sacred number of Being, counted clearly as numeric 4. Close your eyes, dearest reader! Listen with all your heart and you will discover the hypnotic roll of a humble camel - ‘The ship of the desert’ - who is blessed if he has not only 4 legs, but also 3 eyelids!

Listen, ever closer, oh! Most welcome friend! …but beware! When the drums cease, the narrator will bathe your ears in a sparkling honeyed potion; and as the priestess hums her recumbent lullaby to the night’s sky, behold! A sudden and deathly thud! Deep as the mouth of the Nile, yet so brief and curiously distant as to be missed, it wields the weight of a myriad lost souls. Could this dark and chilling portent have been the clumsied sealing of a tomb? But, dear reader, if so, from whence, and by whom, was it firstly opened...?!

‘Ka is the Spirit, and Safar is the Journey'

Humanji

Postscript, I ask of you, dear friend: What is of worth? Grains of gold and dust are merely slumbered bedfellows to the earth, until, united through fire and toil, they attain new lives of breathtaking and unimaginable majesty. Know you now, dear reader, the true alchemy of Ka Safar!

lyrics

Dust
Bathed in gold
Bathed to the reach of hands
Dust, bathed in gold to the reach of hands

Gold!
Looted gold
Looted to the reach of hands
Gold! Looted and cursed to the reach of hands

Forever cursed to dust!

Dust to gold to dust to gold to dust...

credits

released October 31, 2019
Pyramid: Written, recorded and produced by Lee Boyd Allatson.
Performed by Ka Safar:
Lee Boyd Allatson (drum set)
Mellow Baku (vocals)
Kulvir Bhambra (percussion)
Miranda Booth (harp)
Satya-Sara Khachik (dance)
Tony Booth (Narrator)
Tony Looby (flute)
Fino Lopes (bass)
Jonathan Read (flugel horn/trumpet)
Gary Reader (sax)
Alan Tang (violin)
Hari Trivedi (tabla)

Audio Mastering by Nene Baratto at Big Snuff Studio, Berlin.

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Ka Safar England, UK

Ka Safar is a 17-piece world jazz band proudly based in Leicester, UK. With compositions and direction by Lee Boyd Allatson, the band espouses inclusivity, peace, love and humanity.
Ka is the ancient Egyptian God of 'The spark of the spirit' and Safar is Arabic for journey. ... more

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