Kayo Dot – Hubardo (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kayo Dot – Hubardo (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:38:56 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prophecy Productions

HUBARDO is the seventh studio album by veteran avant-metal maestros, KAYO DOT. Produced by Randall Dunn (Sunn0)))), and with a running time of almost 100 minutes, the music follows an epic and heartbreaking narrative of a meteor falling to Earth and its enchantment and alchemical transformation of a lonely poet.

HUBARDO, meaning “lantern” or “lamp” in the magickal language of Enochian, marks the band’s tenth anniversary. As such, it features aspects of all the shades of KAYO DOT from the past decade, including some that even hearken back to the band’s former identity, the progressive MAUDLIN OF THE WELL, such as the album’s opening: a stark and disturbing guest vocal appearance by MOTW screamer Jason Byron – his first recorded appearance since 2001.

From weird metal to beautiful post-rock, from demented ballads to tripped-out 70s fusion, this double-album has it all. With HUBARDO, KAYO DOT have crafted an enormous masterpiece of 21st-century progressive music.

Tracklist:
1. Kayo Dot – The Black Stone (10:38)
2. Kayo Dot – Crown-In-The-Muck (08:54)
3. Kayo Dot – Thief (06:51)
4. Kayo Dot – Vision Adjustment to Another Wavelength (04:53)
5. Kayo Dot – Zlida Caosgi (To Water the Earth) (05:25)
6. Kayo Dot – The First Matter (Saturn in the Guise of Sadness) (09:28)
7. Kayo Dot – The Second Operation (Lunar Water) (13:18)
8. Kayo Dot – Floodgate (07:22)
9. Kayo Dot – And He Built Him a Boat (07:27)
10. Kayo Dot – Passing the River (10:12)
11. Kayo Dot – The Wait of the World (14:22)

Personnel:
Toby Driver – bass, synths, piano, rhodes, organ, vocals, percussion
Ron Varod – guitars
Keith Abrams – drums
Daniel Means – tenor sax, alto sax, clarinet
Terran Olson – flute, alto sax, piano, organ, and synth solo on “Floodgate”
Tim Byrnes – trumpet, horn in F.
Mia Matsumiya – violin, synths
Jason Byron – guest vocal on “The Black Stone” intro
Randall Dunn – synth design
Jessika Kenney and BC Campbell – guest backing vocals

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