After the new release from Slift we are back in Toulouse France with another powerhouse psychedelic rock band. Formed in 2019, Karkara are a psychedelic rock band composed of Karim Rihani (guitar/vocals), Hugo Olive (bass/synth) and Maxime Marouani (drums/vocals). This amazing band has since played over a hundred concerts in France and Europe and released two albums (‘Crystal Gazer’ in 2019 and ‘Nowhere Land’ in 2020), with UK label Stolen Body Records. Influenced by The Oh Sees, King Gizzard, King Crimson and Black Sabbath. I was lucky enough to catch them live on their last stop off in Glasgow and it was a face meltingly good show. How to describe their music though…… I’ll let the band take this one.
“The power trio delivers a dose of uninterrupted psych rock that’s both furious and hypnotic. Screaming amps, supercharged drums and vocals that blend sweet melancholy with desperate rage. On stage, KARKARA manage to recreate this hypnotic fury, revealing to the audience a sound, an identity and an energy that instantly grabs you by the gut.”
They have just announced their third album and you can count on it that I’ll be back to talk more about that in a later blog. In the meantime, we have teaser single ‘Anthropia’.
It’s cosmic track pondering on an idyllic life somewhere out there. Opening on the coolest riff and chord progression it lays out the key themes of the track before Rihani’s foot hits the trademark Karkara wah wah sound and into the song we go. There’s not an inch of flab on this track, every second vital and propelling the song ever forward. If this is the teaser, I can’t wait to hear the album itself. Enjoy the video here for yourself.
Karkara’s third album, All Is Dust, is due for release on March 22th, through Exag Records (Belgium), Le Cèpe Records (France) and Stolen Body Records (UK).
You can follow Karkara on social media here…
Photo Credits
Jessica Calvo
RABO
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