Naraka
Running time	5:01
Appears on	Inferno (2026)
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"Naraka" is the seventh track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.

Comments

• "Naraka" is the Hindu place for the expiration of sins after death, roughly corresponding to the Christian concept of hell (or perhaps purgatory).
• Naraka is structurally similar to “Palace Posy” from Boards of Canada’s 2013 album Tomorrow’s Harvest, with a first half that starts immediately with no intro followed by a second half that heavily involves chanting.

Samples / Lyrics

• From 2:39 onwards, a Hare Krishna chant sampled from a short promotional film showcasing the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in the early 1980s.

हरे कृष्ण हरे कृष्ण
कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे
हरे राम हरे राम
राम राम हरे हरे

("Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare"
Hare Rama, Hare Rama
Rama Rama, Hare Hare")

Trivia

Boards of Canada’s fascination with numbers seems to appear in this track, as the chant in this track loops 9 times, and in the religion of Hinduism, the number 9 is considered a complete perfected and divine number, as it represents the end of a cycle in the decimal system, which dates back to as early as 3000 BC.