I was only 8 years old that day in Delphi. My mother, Pythia, was dancing and singing holding a rose in mesmerising beauty. 
She gave me the rose with bleeding hands and an oracle, “This is your truth. Go and find it.” I went on a long journey far away from home. 
A long time has passed.
Now I am at my mother’s death bed. I have got wrinkles and she has lost all the beauty she had. 
“Your tears filled the sea, your pain tore your heart. Only through the depth of despair, you finally found your truth, my dear. 
Now you are the successor of Pythia. Listen to the voice of the sacred.” She said with her last breath.
Atsuko Kamura (vocal, vocal effect, synth)
Natalie Mason (viola, accordion, piano)
Robert Storey (guitar)

Dean Brodrick (piano, bassoon)
David Ross (percussion)
 Recorded and produced by Earl of Killorglin
Mastered by Bob Drake
Cover designed by Naomi Oppenheim

Rose in Delphi

A lot of questions and burst of wonders.
I was choking.
I peeped into the room to hear what the candidates in the Salon of Kalon Kagathon were discussing, 
with a faint hope to find some answers and to give order to the world.
The room was grand and bright but it started to shrink and spin. Thousands of colours were mixed in and created a pattern of marble.
The room has melted down. Time and space are left where only the marbles of aporia stand.
Natalie Mason (viola)
Dean Brodrick (piano)
Atsuko Kamura (vocal, vocal effect)
Robert Storey (arrangement & produce)

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https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/album/speleology-kamura-obscura-live

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