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    Receive the music on a stick of clear Crystal & Rose Gold, along with a pink salt crystal formed of cambrian evaporate, aged roughly between 540-600 million years; the package is wrapped up with a few drops of precious Neroli oil, which was harvested in 2019 (a fine year, we can all agree) from Springtime's first orange blossom buds (Nangrahar, Afghanistan).

    INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the album with the pink crystal on your forehead or on your chest, or somewhere nearby. Touch it, play with it, kiss it if you like. Crystals like these were abundant around the studio during the making of this album (as well as Citrine, Pink Quartz, and a lot of wood + water). Finally, before listening to the song Rose Gold, take a deep inhalation of the scent of Neroli oil (which is both subtle and strong, and should permeate the package that arrives on your doorstep, as well as the pink crystal itself). Rose Gold is a song that is as intimately tied to Afghanistan as the flowers buds that offered us their precious oil.

    INFO: Crystal / Rose Gold USB stick has 2GB capacity. Pink crystal pieces vary by colour. Neroli oil is not visible in the package, it can only be smelled and enjoyed; it is provided in collaboration with the fine work of Ishkar and Turquoise Mountain.

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Drums, guitars, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
Bass guitar Jerohme Spye

No cars
No places to go
Cafés and hearts
All closed
People on auto
Talking all that info
But I'm just here
With my shadow

Lazy and dissatisfied
Kinda like something in me died
Feels like two years since I cried
Why'd you dim the lights?
Your signals gone dry

Lots of ladies crowding around me
To see what I've been through
Everybody asking about me
Is it really true?

Do we still care about each other?
Do, do we do?
We've got so many flowers to give
But they seem to be stuck with glue
Stuck with glue
Stuck to you

Shut me down outside
(Shoot me down)
Lock me down on my good side
(Keep me down)
I'm here alone with my face
(In concrete)
I got clean water, but I can't taste
(I can't breathe)

Someone shake me on my shoulder
Stop me right now from getting older
Or let me go, cos I don't care, yo
I'm good right here with my shadow

Crying babies stop when they see me
They can understand
So much sprouting, natural beauty
All across this land

In the blackness
I see neon pink and purple stars
Your black shadow tells you where to go
And it's telling you
Who you are:

Don't go too far
Stay as you are
Don't lose your star
Don't lose your star.

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from SHEDARK / MIROSA (2020), released September 11, 2020
Drums, guitars, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
Bass guitar Jerohme Spye

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MASTAKAI Los Angeles, California

MASTAKAI, (previously Yoshi / Yusuf Misdaq) has lived many lives in many places. He was making beats, writing lyrics, producing music and singing songs long before he was born. He is from Afghanistan. He will die there, and be reborn again there.

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