AIRKTOO THE DARKAR'S (TWO) DAYS IN MANILA

Under the alternate name, Airktoo the darkar, Adarkah Ianqu carves a new, allegorical journey, (two) days in manila. 

The album presents danger and mystery, addiction and exoticism: not mainstream by any stretch, unless one's mainstream is based on ambivalent whimsy. 

The journey kicks off with "last train from Athens": a symbolic start where one embarks on a new life and a new fix for fulfillment. The track's notes are swooshing and sweet, but beneath, Airktoo's sardonic, pessimism seeps.

One exits the train and wanders toward an "opium den", its melody tangling one's cerebral threads. Of course, opium is a grand deceiver, and in its lure, danger isn't blunted. It grows instead. 

This harsh revelation leaves one crushed, as one suffers the coarse consequences that a "humiliation of the Mondays" can bring. One's woe whirls of aimless confusion with no viable end.

Unhinged, one searches again for that calm exoticism, and to "the nu Negress" one lands, begging for love and empathy, but her reply is sharp with betrayal. One may as well have fallen into the lap of a demon, for all that her seductive song signals.  

As one slips from her mortifying grasp, "opium den {secret lake beings}" penetrates. Its chords cut deeper than those before. Within it, a splurge of sirens splash, but their warning springs too late.

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One must now "lay down" the two-day quest, for in Manila all things come full circle. To win is to lose, and to lose is to win, and so is the journey of life's double-edged sword.

Experience Airktoo the darkar's dual exploration at 

https://adarcahianku.bandcamp.com/album/two-days-in-manila?fbclid=IwAR2ZzydqF3CnfYpjBUwBZpA-ySUmlCKZvmXOr-UTxqKy8goQwXnH74i5WLE