A Woman Cloaked in Thunder

by Orah & The Kites

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A Woman Cloaked In Thunder is the debut release of Cape Town based Alternative band Orah & The Kites.

The single was released in October 2019 aiming to serve as an ode to women during a time in South Africa where protest action against the on going femicide was taking place.
The track was released as track A of an AB release alongside Lucid.

lyrics

Lyrics:

Over the blue and under the black
A fallen flower floats by the riverbank
Still as the mourning of a love lost
Here she comes to be quietly taken

To pass the dark beneath the stars
To drift while drowning
To reconcile with the past
And forget the present

Oooooooh
What a wonder
That woman cloaked in thunder

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released October 25, 2019

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Orah & The Kites Cape Town, South Africa

Orah & The Kites are a melancholic alternative band based in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Orah & The Kites soundscape is forever evolving but is rooted in an appreciation for vocal harmony and the meditative cathartics of melody repetition.

Lyrically the band is inspired by the wide spectrum of human emotions and our ability to feel so much and sometimes nothing at all. ... more

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