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LAKEER

LAKEER

a line

A concept album about South Asian history and the paperwork it left, in a prologue and six Parts. It isn't meant to be heard in one sitting: each Part is a side. Start one, finish it, come back.

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Part VI

Arrival

1968–now

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3 songs · 11 min

  1. 23 RIVERS
  2. 24 DAYTIMER
  3. 25 LINE 13

Part V

Flags Change

1940s–1977

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4 songs · 13 min

  1. 19 EKATTUR
  2. 20 THE ARRANGER
  3. 21 IN ABSENTIA
  4. 22 NINETY DAYS

Part IV

Lines Drawn

1926–1960, and after

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5 songs · 17 min

  1. 14 ABADKAR
  2. 15 QUIT
  3. 16 RADCLIFFE
  4. 17 RECOVERY
  5. 18 EKUSHE

Part III

Company, Crown, Cargo

1757–1940

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4 songs · 15 min

  1. 10 DIWAN
  2. 11 SHER-E-PUNJAB
  3. 12 ENFIELD
  4. 13 GIRMIT

Part II

The Converted Coast, the Singing Plain

c. 930–1812

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5 songs · 20 min

  1. 05 CHISHTIAN
  2. 06 MAA BOLI
  3. 07 CARTAZ
  4. 08 FERNANDES
  5. 09 MAJMA

Part I

Water and Word

c. 2600 BCE – 1510 CE

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4 songs · 15 min

  1. 01 UNREAD
  2. 02 SEVEN RIVERS
  3. 03 DEVANAMPIYA
  4. 04 MAWSIM

Ask me again where I'm from. I'll start at the drains.

Begin at the drains