Earth Prison by KMRO

Can humans perceive the depth to which their lives are out of order with the universe? Can we understand the forces that are in operation on our bodies and minds that limit our potential?

“Earth Prison” is the story of mole people under the earth who have been kept in servitude. Perhaps their understanding of self was distorted by some thousands-years-ago-global trauma? The mole people live under the earth under the thumb of a cruel shaman. The shaman enriches themself on their mole-labor and encourages the mole people only to dig deeper into the earth.

Contact with a stray root from a long dormant tree brings some liberatory spark. A mole person breaks from the path and considers forbidden thoughts of climbing upward. Sneaking to explore and slowing digging upward they find a crack in the earth and break through into moonlight.

Abandoned a thousand years earlier from any human contact, the sensory overload of the moment paralyzes the mole person who can only imagine what the future will bring.

KMRO is a performance/activist organization intended to honor the drone. Electronic synthesis, distorted instruments and augmented voice combine to make a human electronic hybrid.

Of this earth is the reminder for accountability, humility and engagement.

KMRO reside in Humboldt County and makes music for joy and to challenge the norm.

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