We did this as an exclusive track to benefit local community radio station KRBX during Radiothon 2020.

This is a non-album track and will only be found here and on the special compilation CD for KRBX.

Special thanks to DJ Joe Black and Sonic Mushroom Cloud for playing us on your show and allowing us to be a part of supporting our local community radio station.

Boundless, infinite divine love. It cannot be bottled, sold, exchanged, or in any way quantified. Love is non mathematical and sewn into our dna - whispered into our fabric by our pseudo-mechanical creators.

The great hidden secrets are knowable only by those who have awakened to the iterative time stream. A traditional gospel tune which accidentally got it right.

The misanthropic urge is an urge of defeat, and the urge to be defeated. Of all our various trappings and flaws, our biggest mistake is in not believing in our own capacity for growth and kindness.

The pseudo mechanical creators inside the factory where humans are assembled and genetic materials are printed from the codex delivered in the fallen capsule.

Humanity has a strong will to fight when it comes to survival. Is it strong enough to survive the fight inside ourselves? If we can believe we are more, we can fight beyond our last stone.

This song was originally intended to appear on the "Idafolk And Friends" compilation ( Two volumes FREE from Bandcamp, highly recommended. Here: https://idafolkandfriends.bandcamp.com/album/idafolk-and-friends-2020-volume-ii ) but we just needed more time to work it out.

This was written in mid 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic broke out, making this song "accidentally topical" now.

BARDS are often prescient and operate outside the boundaries of the common linear perception of time. All of this has already happened. If you write about the end of the world long enough, sooner or later, you are bound to be topical.

With its life giving breath, Kothar-wa-Khasis imbues humanity with the divine impulse, a curiosity and appreciation for beauty, and a set of archetypal symbols to draw upon.

The human race is once again created through the culmination of cosmological coincidence and deterministic cause and effect.

Keepers of the Key are an all acoustic BARDS tribute band.

This is a live performance, with no overdubs.

Rough take number one.

This song features special guest John Floy @john-markham-2 on lead guitar