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Floodgate

from Hubardo by Kayo Dot

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  • Hubardo - 3xLP Flenser-reissued 180g black vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A triple-LP of HUBARDO, packaged in a sturdy, triple-gatefold jacket with 6 huge panels of original artwork by Rachel Wolf and pressed on heavyweight black vinyl. Also includes an 11x22" insert featuring all the lyrics and credits, and an image from the jacket, perfect for hanging on your wall. Includes a free high-resolution download, of course.

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  • Hubardo Super Limited Japanese Import 2xCD
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    Finally, a CD version of Kayo Dot's highly-lauded 100-minute 2013 magnum opus, Hubardo. This double-CD was produced by Daymare Records out of Japan and is the only CD issue in existence of this album. Original pressing limited to 250, we have a few copies on hand. Sorry, my camera-phone is a piece of shit, so please excuse the photo quality below.

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  • HUBARDO 2xCD (Flenser reissue, direct from the band)
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Available for the first time outside of Japan, Kayo Dot's 100-minute epic concept album HUBARDO is here on double CD courtesy of The Flenser. 2xCD version of the album with 20-page booklet in a 6-panel jacket!

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lyrics

When morning cast the stars aside
And the chill of night had all but died
As sleep removed its blanket pall
From the waking eyes of all
The poet stretched his limbs and dressed
And wandered out to see the blessed
Grove and mound, but with a sound
Of water that was not there before…

A singing stream had grown overnight
Centuries old, with smooth stones covered in moss
The path to the grove is overtaken
Its source bubbles up from under the earth
From the seed…

The poet drank sweet water from a cupped hands chalice
He was baptized at the stream by a mourning dove
All the loveliness in the world was in her
All the sadness flowed out into the forest and into thin air
Mist-wrapped trees, the tattered shrouds of night, as she
Beckoned downstream

Nothing but death, the ageless kiss of the queen
The most beautiful thing is the deathless unseen

No end to the miraculous waters that stream forth from the earth
And the stream grew into the blue royalty of a river
The cascades that tumble away like lives into the æther
Surged forth ceaseless like wasted time

As the moon grew fat with days
The river widened and wove its way
Deeper into the mist and the trees
As an unfinished rhyme, as a grief-laden breeze

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from Hubardo, released August 30, 2013

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KAYO DOT is an undefinable band led by composer Toby Driver. All the other projects and titles on this page are also the work of Toby Driver. Several additional titles are also available exclusively through our subscription service.

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