A krai or kray (Russian: край) was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and in the Russian SFSR, and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia.
Etymologically, the word is related to the verb "кроить" (kroit'), "to cut". Historically, krais comprised vast territories located along the periphery of the Russian state , since the word krai also means border or edge, i.e., a place of the cut-off. In English the term is often translated as "territory". As of 2015 the administrative usage of the term is mostly traditional, as some oblasts also fit this description and there is no difference in legal status between the krais and the oblasts.
Krai or Край is a full-length studio album by Russian-born New York singer-songwriter Olga Bell. It is her second solo album, and her first release on independent label One Little Indian Records/New Amsterdam Records. An exploration of themes of territory and identity, the album is sung entirely in Russian.
The album's title, Krai — Край in the Cyrillic alphabet used to write Russian — can be translated variously as edge, frontier, limit, region, or wilderness. Each song on the album also contains the word Край/Krai in its title, because each one focuses on one of Russia's far-flung края (the plural of край) — administrative districts of Russia, yet another meaning of the word.
Krai began as a project Bell put together for the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, originally intended as a one-time performance. Following the show, however, she was awarded a grant by the American Composers Forum to create an album based on the initial project.
The songs on the album were written for six voices, four female and two male, but Bell herself performed all six parts. She also played jaw harp and keyboards on the album. Bell's compositions called for cello, electric bass, electric guitar,glockenspiel, kit drums, mallet percussion, and vibraphone players to collaborate with her. Some of the other musicians who contributed to the album were Andrea Lee (cello), Grey McMurray (electric guitar), Jason Nazary (kit drums and other percussion, plus glockenspiel and vibraphone), and Gunnar Olsen (kit drums and other percussion).
KRAI may refer to:
Vile forms of Necros lie rotting my mind
Feasting like maggots - maggots in flesh
So left your ruined cortex behind
Now the maggot knows glee as it nibbles on your spine!
[Chorus:]
Maggots! Maggots!
Maggots are falling like rain!
Putrid pus-pools vomit blubonic plague
The bowels of the beast reek of puke
How to describe such vileness on the page
World maggot waits for the end of the age!
[Chorus]
Beneath a sky of maggots I walked
Until those maggots began to fall
I gaped at God to receive my gift
Bathed in maggots till the planet shit
[Repeat chorus a lot]