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Shaky But My Hair Is Grown

by Flung

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1.
Tell Me 00:51
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Lavender 02:04
3.
Leery 02:51
Walking alone I was walking alone To his apartment I was watching to grow Watching to grow In this apartment I was watching to grow Watching to grow In my own apartment Leery a liquorice end Done it you done it again How can you know If forever started How can you know Forever scarlett Leery a liquorice end Done it you done it again Where is the show A horizon on it Where is the show A horizon on it
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Ultra 01:40
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Moon water trickle falling down below A winter before us Sunny city and the stereo A little bit orange Go go, holding onto what you know, even so A strange affirmation
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Antennae 01:14
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Organs 02:12
Got too late for better Got too late for the better Got to wait for better Got to wait for the better Got to get it better Got to get any better Forgot to get me better Forgot to get any better
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Tingletoes 02:12
Open up a letter Before with crossing The skies revolving Sitting under trees and heather Open up a long letter Open up Open up
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Blueier 01:36
12.
Of a Breath 02:21
Finding a little time in the time next to the minimum Barely barely barely reaching like a domino I don’t know Like a domino Flickering audio Like a domino What i was thinking about it was facedown in delirium Pitter a patter a tremolo trip really unbelievable In the domino At a minimum Gotta go In the domino Eating a flurry and blurring the days Going and going to phase, growing and growing a face Dominadomino Gotta go Like a domino
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Oh ma, we didn’t disagree We were floating in a sea Oh papa, abandon disbelief It’s not gone she said to me
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Itty 02:18
No way In the itty bitty hours of a thursday And we’re going With the itty bitty flowers in the doorway Done with ignoring Sitting in the itty bitty hours of a thursday With the flowers in the doorway Going on a foray For the coda of the first day
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In Umami 01:33
Umami We’re both sorry It’s what you see In umami In umami We’re both sorry It’s all you see In umami Everything walked out that door
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Up in a sideways direction There with a bun on my head I know the best, I know the rest Shaky but my hair is grown

about

Flung is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Kashika Kollaikal. Their first venture into solo work, debut release “Shaky But My Hair Is Grown” was written and recorded in Oakland, CA over three weeks in April 2020, shortly after quarantine began. A carefully structured catharsis of energy and an embodiment of Kollaikal's frenetic process, “Shaky But My Hair Is Grown” showcases the wanderings and explorations of an artist left to their own devices.

Led by inspired sampling, Flung pulls from a vast catalogue of influences including traditional Shona music of Zimbabwe, Brazilian MPB, contemporaries like Nick Hakim and Palm, and the work of radical Black poet/philosophers such as Fred Moten and Nathaniel Mackey. Collecting sounds as if material, Flung plays with tactile fragments of vibrant sonic matter, following the feeling of songs as they sit in the body and the movement they elicit.

Flung’s debut album showcases their aptitude for songcraft; “Shaky But My Hair Is Grown” is both restless and instantly relatable. Ambient recordings and unusual chord progressions play duets over hard hitting polyrhythms woven from glitchy samples and clipped loops. The album’s whimsical yet poignant songs venture in all directions, a scattering of textures laced together with some intangible thread. Finding cadence in assemblage, Flung never sits in one place for too long, instead inviting the listener to share in the joy of the unpredictable.

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released September 18, 2020

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Kashika Kollaikal: drums & percussion, piano, wurlitzer, vocals, synthesizers

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Mastering - Sam Obey
Layout - Kevin Duquette
Illustration - Nico Lepeska-True

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Flung Oakland, California

As Flung, Oakland-based multi-instrumentalist Kashika Kollaikal creates channels for feeling. Flung's music is at once both danceable and meditative, finding motion in stillness and stillness in motion.

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