“Third World”  To some the term sounds sickening, degrading, to others merely a matter of fact description for parts of this earth with cultures devoid of products.
  Yet, as time moves forward on this hulking orbis we all inhabit, one should perhaps not be so quick to label societies “primitive” or “advanced”, at least not before knowing what way the arc of progress turns.
  Should nations that build bombs, permeate the atmosphere with television waves and allow their own to starve as they accelerate the planet’s demise have the nerve to call another culture backwards?
  This EP from Sikhara is a tale of war.
  Part A explores the media’s notion of the “third world” as a place of depravity.  It’s inhabitants…merely animals walking upright.  Yet part B asks, what if those people chose to respond to the arrogance of these attitudes by ripping our precious, carefully constructed society to pieces?  What if it was our children dying and not theirs? 
  It remains to be seen in whose hands the future of humanity lies, herein awaits a story offering just a speculative set of outcomes, yet perhaps closer to the truth than our fears allow us to acknowledge.  
  Album IV was recorded on the road with a stellar cast of studios and engineers with drummers from Sikhara’s ancient times, finding their way home.
  Maori chants, female circumcisions, animals slaughtered…  An uncomfortable soundscape to a battle we have all lost.