Naraka
Running time	5:01
Appears on	Inferno (2026)
Next	Acts Of Magic
Prev	Somewhere Right Now In The Future

"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.
• The chants you hear are Hare Rama, Hare Krishna is a chant for a surrender to the divine, to become one with it, Rama and Krishna are the 7th and 8th avatars of Vishnu, Vishnu is the preserver of order and his Avatars are born to preserve dharma or order.

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")

• The wind-like noise starting at 3:12 that can be heard alongside the Hindu Chanting, is sampled from the intro of the 1975 track "Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI–IX)" by Pink Floyd.

Trivia

• The Hare Krishna chant loops 9 times.
• The synth, first occurring at 0:31 seems to be a less polished version of the lead synth in the track "Pete Standing Alone" from Music Has The Right To Children.