kraKIN

kraKIN is a more-than-human hip-hop collaboration bringing together the sonic stylings of  Singh, the amphibious intellect of Michael Datura (aka professah exile), and a boom-bap menagerie of West Coast plants, amphibians, and mushrooms. In an age of ecological crisis, this  multi-species assemblage aims to decompose human dominion and reintegrate our minds with  the resonant ecology of a living world. kraKIN creates their unique place based sound by  cutting and crossfading samples of field recordings of biomes throughout western canada and  incorporating "biosonification"-a technology that translates the bioelectric signature of flora,  fauna and fungi into musical information. Singh named his latest project, kraKIN, based on the  birth of the project in the Octopus Islands, the habitat of the giant pacific red octopus, in  Desolation Sound. The tracks include everything from cedar tree basslines, wolf-howl and orca  song synths, fungi-triggered 808s, to woodpecker hi-hats - resulting in an ecological portrait  aiming to shapeshift perceptions and help us stay awake to the ways of the world. 

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