Dark folk/progressive project RAKINUA unveil the video for “Spirits of Waters”, a pivotal chapter in the unfolding narrative of their ritualistic universe. Released via Dusktone, a new digital EP accompanies the video, bringing together the album version of the song and two live recordings captured during the band’s September release show: “Spirits of Waters” and “Peaceful Night”.
RAKINUA comment:
“Every story of a dying world begins the same way: something that has always been there is suddenly gone.
In ‘Spirits of Waters’ the priestess walks the paths she has followed for years and finds dust where the rivers used to run. The spirits of the waters have abandoned them. Her tribe is dying of thirst, and she no longer asks, she commands. Everyone must gather. Oil and wine must be poured out, every last drop, and watch it darken the dry earth. Nothing is to be held back, because everything belongs to the gods.
This is the moment we find most unsettling in the story: where faith tips into desperation, and a prayer turns into a demand. We are only following the priestess as she walks toward the consequences.
On October 15 this new digital release brings the album version together with two live recordings from our September release show: ‘Spirits of Waters’ and ‘Peaceful Night’, as the Tribe played them that night. We wanted the songs next to the moment they came alive, with the room breathing with us. For us a ritual is only complete when someone else has heard it too.
Listen like someone standing on a dry riverbed, waiting to hear what comes back.”
The release follows “Esi Um Ninu – Heal Us, Mother!”, the project’s debut album, published last spring via Dusktone. RAKINUA‘s work draws upon archaeological knowledge, Etruscan symbolism and the evocative power of an ancient, forgotten tongue. Their music moves between dark folk ritualism and progressive intricacy, conjuring a world in which ancestral beliefs, human frailty and the inexorable course of fate intertwine.
With this new release, RAKINUA invite listeners to experience the story both as a carefully constructed studio work and as a living ceremony, preserved in the immediacy of a performance shared with an audience. The ritual has been performed; now its echoes return, carrying the weight of everything that has been offered, and everything that may already be lost.
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