Kamakhya Records

01/09/2025

GOA PAST AND FUTURE MIX

This isn’t just a DJ set, it is half music and half séance, half history and half critique!!
Fragments of Goa’s past: voices of the freaks, saints, dropouts, and prophets, spliced with the weight of now. Some gone, some still hanging on, all tangled in the static of memory.

Black Metaphor soundtracks the journey – heavy, restless, ritualistic.
Play it loud. Burn some incense if you must. Raise a glass to the OGs.
The party never really ended. It just mutated into the sh*tshow you see now.
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INVOCATION

Interview: Steve Madras Devas

Track 01 – Black Metaphor (feat. Malign Paradigm) – The Nightmare of Being

Track 02 – Black Metaphor – Sunken Place

CROSSROADS

Interview: Rose Baudin

Interview: Tobias Moss (RIP)

Track 03 – Black Metaphor (feat. Ankoudead) – Ancient Mechanism

THE TRANSMISSION

Interview: Haya Zommer

Interview: Giuliano Bottali

Interview: Chicago Pete (RIP)

Track 04 – Black Metaphor – Who Goes There

Track 05 – Black Metaphor – Enough Rope

THE FAREWELL

Interview: Steve Madras Devas (return)

Interview: Goa Gil (RIP)

Interview: Haya Zommer (return)

Interview: Eight Finger Eddie (RIP)

Track 06 – Black Metaphor – A Song of Exhausted Nature

Track 07 – Black Metaphor – Nostalgia

Acknowledgements
Gratitude to the Goa Hippy Tribe for preserving these voices, keeping the ghosts alive.

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About Black Metaphor
Black Metaphor is the collaboration of Black Phillip (Brazil) and In Metaphor (Colombia).

GOA PAST AND FUTURE MIX This isn’t just a DJ set, it is half music and half séance, half history and half critique!! Fragments of Goa’s past: voices of the freaks, saints, dropouts, and prophets, spl

31/08/2025

MUSICAL CHAIRS @ SHED ... The soundtrack was powered by the JBL PartyBox 160, gifted with love by the supporters of Kamakhya Records.

SHED (Society for Health and Educational Development) in Assam, Northeast India, is a residential school that cares for differently-abled children from underprivileged backgrounds.

Today it was all about music, joy, and play.

A heartfelt thank you to all our supporters who donated and bought music from our Bandcamp page, and to the Kamakhya Records' artist family - Fat Freddy (India), Yakawrath (Maldives), Eyeryz (India), Ayesha Gardner (India) and Swaroop Guhathakurta (India), who supported with their music, art and expertise, for making moments like this possible. 🙏❤️

28/08/2025

Rs 14,000 (160 USD) RAISED in 2 weeks for the RENOVATION FUNDRAISER OF LYNTI KHASI SCHOOL

Thanks to the 13 kind souls. 🙏❤️

Some of you donated directly and some of you bought music from our Bandcamp page 🙏❤️

Our TARGET is ₹50,000 (580 USD). And we have accomplished 28% of our target already in 2 weeks.

Thank You once again. 🙏❤️
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The RENOVATION FUNDRAISER FOR LYNTI KHASI SCHOOL started on August 04 with the release of SOUNDS OF THE ISAGARH UNDERGROUND by Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick
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THIS ISN'T Goa.
This isn’t Kasol.
This isn’t Bangalore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad or Mumbai.

This is Isagarh — a forgotten outpost in Madhya Pradesh.

Here, in a makeshift studio and village backroom, Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick and his friends have cooked up something wild.

GEAR USED : Behringer Td3, Roland Tr-8, Behringer K2, Arturia Microfreak 25

It is urgent. It is gritty. And it doesn’t ask permission.

Tracklist
1. Psisick – Isagarh on Acid
2. Psisick – Purana Quila
3. Psisick & Atul Patel – Chanderi on Acid
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Welcome to the Sounds of the Isagarh Underground - Psychedelic sounds from India’s back of beyond.

From places you can't point on a map of India.

By people you won't forget.

Bandcamp Link:
kamakhyarecords.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-isagarh-underground-by-priyanjay-sharma-a-k-a-psisick

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Artwork : Ayesha Gardner
Mastering: Swaroop Guhathakurta

24/08/2025

BUTTERFLIES, CONFORMITY, AND INSTITUTIONAL OPPRESSION: READING PEARL JAM THROUGH KEN KESEY'S ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST:
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Pearl Jam once sang (1992) : "Even flow, thoughts arrive like butterflies. Oh, he don't know, so he chases them away"...
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Now think about that image for a moment. Thoughts as butterflies. They arrive suddenly, bright, fragile, full of colour. But before they can land, they are chased off. That is not violence. That is something quieter. It is distraction. It is conformity. It is the slow erosion of individuality.
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And when I read Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I hear that same dynamic. The men in the ward aren’t empty. They do have thoughts. But the routines, the therapy sessions, the authority of Nurse Ratched, all of it keeps those thoughts from ever settling. They dissolve before they become action.
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That’s the power of institutions, isn’t it? They don’t always crush you with force. They make you police yourself. You start scattering your own butterflies before anyone else has to.
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But this is where both Kesey and Pearl Jam leave us a crack of light. Butterflies also mean transformation. McMurphy walks into the ward and refuses to chase those thoughts away. He lets them land. He laughs, he gambles, he defies. And even though the system tries to break him, he leaves something behind. He gives Chief Bromden the courage to escape. That’s the butterfly taking root.
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So maybe Even Flow and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are asking the same question: what do we do with the butterflies that arrive? Do we chase them off? Or do we risk holding onto them, even when institutions tell us not to?
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Have a peaceful, restorative Sunday with your butterflies. Put on Even Flow once more, and if you haven’t read Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, give it a try or pick it up again if you already have.

Thank you for the love and support to Kamakhya Records🙏❤️

Cheers
Kuntil Baruwa
Custodian, Kamakhya Records

04/08/2025

OUT NOW !! SOUNDS OF THE ISAGARH UNDERGROUND - PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS FROM INDIA’S BACK OF BEYOND by Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick of Isagarh.
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THIS ISN'T Goa.
This isn’t Kasol.
This isn’t Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad or Mumbai.

This is Isagarh — a forgotten outpost in Madhya Pradesh. This is India’s back of beyond.

Here, in a makeshift studio and village backroom, Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick and his friends have cooked up something wild.

It is urgent. It is gritty. And it doesn’t ask permission.

Tracklist
1. Psisick – Isagarh on Acid
2. Psisick – Purana Quila
3. Psisick & Atul Patel– Chanderi on Acid
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Welcome to the Sounds of the Isagarh Underground - Psychedelic sounds from India’s back of beyond.

From places you can't point on a map of India.

By people you won't forget.
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Artwork : Ayesha Gardner
Mastering: Swaroop Guhathakurta
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RENOVATION FUNDRAISER FOR LYNTI KHASI SCHOOL starts with the release of SOUNDS OF THE ISAGARH UNDERGROUND. All proceeds from sales will go to the renovation fundraiser.

We are setting a target of ₹50,000 (580 USD) and 5 KIND SOULS HAVE ALREADY DONATED Rs 6600 (75 USD). That's 13% of our target accomplished already. Thank You once again. 🙏❤️

3 track album

30/07/2025

UNVEILING THE ARTWORK by Ayesha Gardner for SOUNDS OF THE ISAGARH UNDERGROUND - PSYCHEDELIC SOUNDS FROM INDIA’S BACK OF BEYOND by Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick of Isagarh.
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THIS ISN'T Goa.
This isn’t Kasol.
This isn’t Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Kochi, Hyderabad or Mumbai.

This is Isagarh — a forgotten outpost in Madhya Pradesh. This is India’s back of beyond.

Here, in a makeshift studio and village backroom, Priyanjay Sharma a.k.a Psisick and his friends have cooked up something wild.

It is urgent. It is gritty. And it doesn’t ask permission.

Tracklist
1. Psisick – Isagarh on Acid
2. Psisick – Purana Quila
3. Psisick & Atul Patel – Chanderi on Acid
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Welcome to the Sounds of the Isagarh Underground - Psychedelic sounds from India’s back of beyond.

From places you can't point on a map of India.

By people you won't forget.
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OUT ON AUGUST 04, 2025.

RENOVATION FUNDRAISER FOR LYNTI KHASI SCHOOL starts with the release of SOUNDS OF THE ISAGARH UNDERGROUND. All proceeds from sales will go to the renovation fundraiser.

We are setting a target of ₹50,000 (580 USD) and 4 KIND SOULS HAVE ALREADY DONATED Rs 5500 (64 USD). That's 11% of our target accomplished already. Thank You once again. 🙏❤️
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Artwork : Ayesha Gardner
Mastering: Swaroop Guhathakurta

24/07/2025

INSECT ORCHESTRA - DHOOMKETU: WHEN A VILLAGE DECAYS
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THANK YOU Owl Vibration, Somnium Monkey, Pasang, Mattress bf, Human Harmonics, Pradiate Hoax, Debopom Ghosh Must Be Killed, Monty and Haved Jabib for the killer tracks (India, Bangladesh and Bhutan)
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INTRO: "Perspective" - recited by Dr. Bhupen Hazarika

OUTRO: “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“My Thoughts Are Free”) by Pete Seeger
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WHEN A VILLAGE DECAYS
It doesn’t make headlines.
No explosion. No exodus.
Just a slow forgetting.

The farmer stops farming,
The weaver stops weaving,
They forget what the seasons bring,
They forget the syncreticity, the sense of community and family.

The pond runs dry—not because of drought,
But because no one uses it—and the ducks no longer swim there.
The Doba of the Namghor rusts into silence,
And the festivals fade into faint recollections,
The Bihu songs forgotten,
The kopou phool no longer blooms,
Now covered in dust.

The songs once sung at the morning assembly of the village school
Are now just static on a passing bus to the big city.
Children stop asking questions.
Even the wind seems unsure of its direction.
The fireflies have vanished,
The cicadas have fallen silent.

What was once lived together
Now withers alone.

And in this decay,
Noise festers—
Not rhythm but rupture,
Feedback loops of memory corroding at the edges.
Distorted echoes of what was,
Where silence isn’t absence but aftermath.
Where every hiss, every screech, every collapsed chord
Is a ghost refusing to fade.

This mix is for the paddy-lined trails,
For the lost names and the last dance
Under a flickering, moth-eaten bulb.
Waiting for the Dhoomketu to strike

INSECT ORCHESTRA - DHOOMKETU: WHEN A VILLAGE DECAYS When a village decays It doesn’t make headlines. No explosion. No exodus. Just a slow forgetting. The farmer stops farming, The weaver stops weavi

22/07/2025

ONE PROJECT IN PROGRESS THAT WE ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT: Currently in progress at Kamakhya Records is a project that dives deep into the many portrayals of Shakti, the Divine Feminine, as explored through the diverse Paramparas (traditions) of Sādhana (spiritual practice).

This project is being led by Swarnabha Gupta from the Kamakhya Records পৰিয়াল (Family). He is a guitarist and music producer based in Pune, whose intuitive grasp of sonic storytelling and spiritual inquiry is both rare, deep, and fearless.

We have no idea what shape it will eventually take — it is uncharted, and it is intuitive — and that is what excites us the most.

Stay tuned.

22/07/2025

BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE WORLD DOESN’T NEED FIXING. IT NEEDS NAMING : And Bob Dylan, in Everything is Broken, doesn’t try to console or correct. He simply lays it bare. “Broken hands on broken ploughs…” It is a litany of fractures, mundane and metaphorical, delivered in that gritty, unhurried drawl that feels like sandpaper on truth.

There is something deeply comforting in the honesty. No sugar-coating. No redemption arc. Just the sweet release of someone else saying what you have been quietly feeling. It is both protest and poetry.

And then there is the groove. That swampy, bluesy, shuffling rhythm. Like a man walking through the wreckage with his hands in his pockets, saying, “Yep. That too.”

It is a song for when your shoe breaks, your phone dies, and the country feels like it is held together with duct tape. And yet, somehow, you are still standing. Maybe even dancing a little.

How is the Josh this Tuesday, comrades?

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19/07/2025

MUSIC AS CARE WORK: At Kamakhya Records, we have come to realise that music — when held in the right spirit — can be a form of community care. Not through grand gestures, but through consistent acts of trust and solidarity.

It is this trust — from our listeners, artists, mastering engineers, artwork collaborators, and supporters — that has made so much possible. We don’t take it lightly. It is a privilege. A blessing.

Since June 2017, this collective care has been flowing towards the Lynti Khasi School — a small, community-led school in the hills of Meghalaya. What began as a thatch hut has slowly grown into a simple but steady structure: a concrete floor, a proper roof, a verandah.

Two supporters from the Kamakhya Records community now contribute each month to the salaries of the school’s two teachers — an ongoing act of solidarity that keeps the school going.

Another kind soul is supporting Jonita Nongrum — a bright Lynti Khasi pass out — by covering her school and hostel fees as she pursues Class XI.

The sales and donations from "Introspection Against Sanity — the debut EP of The Blackmetaphør" — helped fund a football match for the boys and girls of Umsawwar, the village where the Lynti Khasi School is located. A small celebration, stitched together by music and joy, for a village that continues to nurture young dreams.

The Book Funding Campaign linked to the album "Dante’s Inferno – Fallen Reign" led to books worth ₹12,000 being donated to the Lynti Khasi School — a meaningful step in building the school’s modest but growing library.

In Assam, the Kamakhya Records community has also extended its care to SHED — a residential school for differently-abled children from underprivileged backgrounds.

From the sales of "Haavi’s EP Art is Prayer", we were able to contribute ₹15,000 towards the their new girls’ hostel — an offering that aligned perfectly with the spirit of the release.

Later, the community came together once more to gift the children of SHED a JBL PartyBox 160 worth ₹33,000 (USD 386), which now blasts joy and music across the campus.

They gathered yet again to gift a washing machine worth ₹15,000 to the boys’ hostel of SHED.

This transformation wasn’t funded by corporations.

It came from Bandcamp purchases, donations, encouragement, and deep faith — from people who believe that music can do more than entertain.

Thank You people who bought our music on Bandcamp.
Thank You artists who trusted us with their releases.
Thank You mastering engineers who added their finishing touch.
Thank You artwork collaborators for their artwork.
Thank You those who gave without needing to be named.

Kamakhya Records is just grateful to be a small part of this.

Artists who are a part of the Kamakhya Records family — we do not have the bandwidth to do India tours or commercial gigs for you, but this is what we can do together: channel your music into real, tangible acts of care. Into classrooms and hostels. Into books, football matches, and sound systems that bring joy to children. Into steady, slow, unglamorous, and yet real change. 🙏❤️

Thank you once again 🙏❤️

18/07/2025

ANOTHER KIND SOUL has just contributed Rs 200 (USD 2.30) towards our campaign 🙌🏽
That takes the total raised to Rs 10,550 (USD 124.30) — just Rs 4,450 (USD 51.70) to go!

As part of our ongoing vision to use music as a medium for community care, we are raising funds for a washing machine for the boys’ hostel at SHED — a residential school in Assam, Northeast India, for differently-abled children from underprivileged backgrounds.

This initiative began on July 03 with the release of THALAM by Dissonant — the third drop in our Evolving EP Series

kamakhyarecords.bandcamp.com/album/thalam-by-dissonant-part-1

Earlier, the Kamakhya Records community came together to gift the kids a JBL PartyBox 160 worth Rs 33,000 (USD 386) — which now blasts joy and music across SHED.

Let’s build on that love.
Let’s get that washing machine for the boys.
Support. Share. Spread the word. 💙

Thank You
Dissonant, Ayesha Gardner (artwork) and Sanathana (mastering)

All proceeds from Bandcamp sales of THALAM go directly towards this initiative.

ALMOST THERE!!
LET'S BRING THE WASHING MACHINE HOME!!! 💥

2 track album

17/07/2025

DEATH OF AN ARTIST: As a creative, you are your own audience first and foremost. The process of creation is deeply personal, often driven by an internal dialogue that only you can fully understand. When you listen to that voice, your work is authentic, rooted in your unique perspective and experiences. It is this authenticity that resonates with others, even if they interpret it differently.
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The moment you stop listening to yourself and start catering to external noise, whether it's trends, opinions, or expectations the very essence of your art is lost.
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The pressure to please others or fit into a particular mould can be overwhelming, especially in a world where validation is often sought through likes, follows, and marketability. But when you prioritise what others want to see or hear over what you genuinely want to express, your art becomes a reflection of that external noise rather than an extension of the harmony of your true self.
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Creativity thrives in the space where you remain connected to your internal compass. When you abandon that connection to chase fleeting trends or accommodate the opinions of others, your work can and will feel hollow. It is no longer an honest reflection of your thoughts, emotions, and imagination but a product crafted to meet external demands. This is the point where art loses its soul, and the joy of creation fades.
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Remaining true to yourself as a creative is a lifelong discipline. While it is important to EVOLVE AND GROW, that growth should come from within, not from the noise outside. Your art must remain a conversation between you and your inner voice, with the WORLD INVITED TO LISTEN IN, NOT DICTATE the terms of the dialogue.
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When you honour this, your work remains alive, authentic, and powerful. Otherwise, your ART DIE and SO DOES THE ARTIST WITHIN!!
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Artist Featured: Dictaphone's Lament of Poland (Check out his Bandcamp Page and figure out the track ID yourself)