Squidco: Dai Koelakanth: Don't Let Me Be A Burden

Don't Let Me Be A Burden

A nearly hour-long solo construction from Dai Koelakanth, assembling frantic sound poetry, shouted and fractured speech, electronic noise, hiss, distorted textures and obsessive tape-style editing into a deliberately unstable audio collage, balancing abrasive outsider expression and absurd humor with an intensely personal approach to concrete poetry and radio-art composition.

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Dai Koelakanth-composer, performer

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Label: Krim Kram
Catalog ID: KK-22
Squidco Product Code: 37982

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Israel
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded by the artist.

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A nearly hour-long torrent of cut-up sound poetry, distorted speech, electronic noise, tape manipulation and abrupt collage, Don't Let Me Be A Burden presents Dai Koelakanth's deliberately unruly audio world as a continuous barrage of fractured narratives, shouted phrases, hiss, buzz, damaged textures and sudden edits.

Koelakanth himself describes the work as containing "one million edits," and the exaggeration fits the music's hyperactive construction, where voices and noises are continually shoved against one another with little concern for conventional balance, fidelity or restraint. Yet beneath the apparent disorder is a highly personal form of concrete poetry, combining outsider performance, radio-art sensibility and obsessive studio assembly into something simultaneously abrasive, comic and strangely intimate.

The 59:58 piece was recorded by Koelakanth himself and issued by Krim Kram in 2025.

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Experimental sound artist, poet, filmmaker and performer whose work combines concrete poetry, spoken-word improvisation, tape and digital collage, field and found sound, electronic noise and deliberately degraded recording techniques. Working with a strong outsider aesthetic, Koelakanth favors densely edited streams of language and sound in which shouting, fragmented narratives, hiss, distortion and abrupt juxtapositions become compositional materials. His work has also appeared in extended radio form on London's Resonance FM, including the six-hour Radio Graveyard, and he has released other recordings including Dead End Bingo Dry as a Bone.

-Squidco 10/5/2026

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Track Listing:

1. Don't Let Me Be A Burden 59:58

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