PIYAKDU "The'e Chronicles ov the'e Sonne-Heart, Part I" LP

Pastoral Synth from Shimla

Tunes, aura, and visuals inspired by the Wiz'rd ov Bharari: Naeku the'e Plowmanne, and Master Edmund Spenser's seething 16th c. pastoral "The Shepherd's Calendar".

After nearly two years of waiting, and one and a half years in the making, PIYAKDU returns with their magnum opus, the fourth full-length offering from the mysterious mind of Baba Mithrandir, titled The Chronicles ov the'e Sonne-Heart, Part I.

The story follows our dear protagonist Naeku's journey after ascending from this realm and reaching the gates of Heaven. We see him as a knight in armour, old and weather-hardened, weary from his lifelong battles in the Great Deserts of the Earth. However, it bears mentioning that he is not simply the “drunk” that he used to be, and that we knew him as. By the sheer power of his kind deeds and pure benevolence, we see him transformed into the Sonne-Heart: proud and golden, a warrior of truth and beauty.

As this journey continues, we will learn more about his adventures, the creatures he will meet, the things he will see, the smells he will smell, and so on. He has indeed come very far from where he began: the dear forests of Bharari, where he slept away so many of his days in a beautiful golden drunk slumber... when he wouldn't have a care in the world, when that old little forest and its ancient trees were his entire world, and the spirits inside it his only friends. Oh, to think that drinking could lead someone so far away from home! If only he had not had those fateful Vissiones on that one fine day in May some years (or was it decades? or was it centuries?) ago.

Vissiones... Pearles... Confessiones... Why do these words mean so much to him? He remembers something, but only faintly. They reach him now from a different world as kind, sunny dreams, like distant echoes from a bygone era... He simply must go on, for it seems to him that this journey has only just begun.

Baba says:
"I began working on PIYAKDU back in February 2021 as a way of stepping away from the intensity with which I approach my Dark Folk/Black Metal/Death Metal projects. I wanted a space where ideas could arrive with less expectation and less weight. What began as a diversion slowly but surely became something I cared for just as deeply. Over time, PIYAKDU developed its own voice: quieter perhaps, but no less personal. 

PIYAKDU remains rooted in the landscapes that continue to shape my imagination, illuminated by its eponymous protagonist, our dear Naeku, who lives forever in the memory of the places he belonged to, and the hearts he touched. Art lives forever."