A Mournful Kingdom of Sand, by Ak’chamel, The Crazed and Sunchalked Bones of the Vanished Herds

A Mournful Kingdom of Sand

by Ak’chamel, The Crazed and Sunchalked Bones of the Vanished Herds

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.William_G. Stunning is word comes to mind when thinking about this album. Pseudo-psychic-folk-ritual- trance masterpiece to dance around the fire to. Seething whispers turned to hymns turned to hypnagogic dream state. Think deserts at nighttime. Think music born from caves. Etc. Favorite track: Soil Death Tape Decay II.

TheSlowMusicMovement Known under many whispered names in many disparate places, Ak'chamel are back from their desert retreat with another psychedelic, ritualistic, global roots fusion for Akuphone which is destined to soundtrack the near future's great march - when the climate displaced take to the roads & boats out of desperate need, to confront the perpetrators & their hastily erected walls, seeking retribution & refuge in the last habitable lands.

Saffron Robe Ak’chamel’s best work to date in my humble opinion. Sumptuously exotic and exquisitely authentic. An aural delight from beginning to end!

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	1.	The Great Saharan-Chihuahuan Assimilation 02:43
	2.	Clean Coal is a Porous Condom 04:23
	3.	Amazonian Tribes Mimicking The Sound of Chainsaws With Their Mouths 05:51
	4.	Ossuary of the Sixth Extinction 05:19
	5.	Soil Death Tape Decay II 02:05
	6.	Sheltering Inside a Camel 10:49
	7.	The Cabinet of the Atomic Priesthood 04:16

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Second long player from the cabalistic duo, Ak’chamel. Fuck your pan-drum new age music and your paramasturbatory delusions. This is some high level fuckery and a fitting soundtrack to the desertification of our world.

PRESS:

🧡 “A Mournful Kingdom of Sand makes a rare and ideal entry point into this duo’s oft-prickly, bizarre, and enigmatic oeuvre and affirms once again that they are one of the most consistently fascinating and creative bands in the psych scene right now.”
-Brainwashed

🧡 ”The subversive aesthetic and musical perspective goes hand in hand with the equally uncompromising socio-political critique”
-AeroMusik (Greece)

🧡 “From the caves of Lascaux, to India, passing through Africa and Turkey and the oldest city in the world: Catalhoyuk. Their music is a phantasmagorical crossing of neolithic psychedelia, spiritual folk, hypnotic raga-rock riffs and primal ethno moods”
-Perkele (Italy)

🧡 “Percussive avant-folk that captures death and nature in their spiritual and material power and renders it as sound.
-HHV Mag (Germany)

🧡 “The desert vistas that fill your head when you listen to these seven songs may seem like myth or science fiction, but they also hit frighteningly close to home, whispering, "unless you take drastic action now, these burning visions and devouring sands are our future.”
- Spectrum Culture

🧡 “There is something shimmering, cold, gentleness and tender in their craft. It feels like a collection of secrets, a rich meditation on the many shades of the current state of the world”
-Idioteq Mag

🧡 “New esoteric sound journey from this enigmatic duo for a shamanic mystical-world trip worthy of the great hours of Sun City Girls”
-Alternative Radio

🧡 “Sounding like no one before or after, the group takes your ears and transforms what they hear. Their world is so dense that it flattens the existence of others and draws you closer in”
-Closed Captioned

🧡 “ Ak’chamel transcends spiritual boundaries, evokes their ancestors and opens the interdimensional doors of perception to us”
-Adopte Un Disque (France)

🧡 “One hell of a record with so many details to discover it will need more than 10 or 20 spins. Global Psych-Rock ladies and gentlemen – pay more attention to it!”
-Veil of Sound

🧡 “This latest seven-track exploit is yet another ear-opening experience; call it multi-layered manna for the psyche.”
-Greedy For Best Music

🧡 “Deeply ritualistic sounds for a very heady experience that bypasses a lot of the new-age gimmicks that many global fusion bands fall into.”
-Trial and Error Collective

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released January 20, 2023

All songs composed and performed by Ak’chamel.
Artwork painted by Matt Sidney @abomination.malleo
Released on Vinyl by Akuphone.

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Ak’chamel, The Crazed and Sunchalked Bones of the Vanished Herds

Honed and expanded through their travels, Ak’chamel’s singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post- apocalyptic shamanism, and melancholic ritual folk is as unique as the physical theater of their otherworldly live performances.

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