The map to an untitled world

SIDE 1

Cobalt Blue was a hit in cold deserted Amsterdam at 5am. A nocturnal wind made several people leave their houses in search of relief. Out of their white sheets were the cobalt blue streets, covered by ink. After the incident many papers could only print and bring "and there is nothing we could know" as the news. The citizens were peaceful, then. Under the milky way there was finally nothing wrong. A statue of a brilliant man trying to kill his ego was built in the middle of the park where the citizens congregated to face the wind. Contorted little solos were blowing all around. They said Wim Wenders was interested in shooting a music video featuring Bono as a shadow of that statue but Bono would decline for fear of wanting to kill his own ego. So, the music video for Cobalt Blue featured the nocturnal wind instead. And just that.

Deadman's Hand was a hit in ancient Rome. The Caesar told his followers and soldiers: "We're on our way to crush a revolution". People are always believing there will be love and retribution. But the revolution isn't really important. The chess game the emperor played before coming out to make the big change actually was. He was seen at the top of a hill surrounded by oranges playing that game with his conscience. The deadman's hand delivered a checkmate and then was caught hanging in the air while the bishop was partying. The sky was partially clouded when Deadman's Hand played the day our troop left the city. No one would be killed at that tour, it was instead just an inspection of truth. Who was prepared for the new world soon to overcome mediocrity? The empire will get you by the balls and you'll wish that you appeared before. But Caesar knows how to make a hit especially when salad days are over. No wonder you'll consider yourself conquered.

Pangaea was a hit in The World tarot card. A 14 year old girl consults for the first time and asks: "what will I win then?" The table says under a squeezed-red cloth stolen from a bar: "The World". Aaahhh, alright.

Happenstance was a hit in rural UK. Those verdant meadows, Violet Town, the flowerish paths, the small grandeur from mouth to mouth, the longing for a perfectly good king, the mud underneath the docile gardens, the big veins in the hands of mothers, the bleached cotton from an uniform of correctness. Happenstance was heard when the sun gave breath to the lowland. Then the children of rarn had enough space to run. A man goes back to the womb when he understands the beginnings. The solace of Albion where the family is the original one again. It's all about observing the seasons and the logic of growth.

Space Saviour was a hit in Eden. The primordial garden echoed and oozed its crescent melody. The fruit was heavy on the vine when the spaceship from Mercury arrived to explore the place. The aliens understood the song as they tried to find clear water. God allowed the aliens visitation because they don't cover their scales. The Natural Grandeur was found and kept in a capsule by the captain but when he arrived at home the once owned substance turned into the atmosphere of his planet.

SIDE 2

On Angel Street was a hit in the bistrots and cabarets of France, late 19th century. Some have spotted Toulouse Lautrec painting to the strange irregularness of it, a tortuous melody, in a hazy house of (in)tolerance. Lautrec's favourite songs were an injection of noir mystery (predictable): Loveblind, Surrealist Woman Blues, Espionage, Number Eleven (noir sci-fi), Illusion Mysteries, English Kiss (which inspired "The Kiss"). But On Angel Street was some kind of twisted noir, something went missing and suddenly it was replete of an anti-heroic reflexive regret. France was like On Angel Street at that time: an atmosphere of dissolution with its buzzes and creeks and cacophonous quietness at the edge of night. The revolution was fruitful but some of the outcome wasn't so smooth (expected). It was a Napoleonic hangover and On Angel Street was Terror's soundtrack.

Sunken Sun was a hit in Sweden, used in a Bergman film. It was that peaceful song of mission-accomplished that played inside the train as the protagonist left the city. The middle section of the song was like a breathless loco-motive. The black and white screen was tinged orange at midnight as the train cruised the lugubrious winter.

Anchorage was a hit in the Aztec Empire. They played it in their tortoise shells before the human sacrifices so they could see one smile from their gods from a million miles. And the chant went "darkness returning, darkness returning" as the shamans prepared the teaofhice. Cortez, the Killer, arrived at the middle of the ceremony proclaiming: "Nothing like the way my name is spelt but I belt it out anyway". The villages were destroyed but one single torch kept on burning until the last rarified and ruptured white man understood the beauty and depth of those in touch with the sacred and the natural.

Lunar was a celestial hit. (No description of ether available).

Operetta was a hit in Kythira which served as the scenery for a Frank Sinatra show in New York. Rolling Stone wrote at the time: "is it Frank Sinatra jamming with multieyed aliens around the Kremlin? Is it Byrds if they had fallen into prog instead of country? Is it an angelical outtake from Abbey Road? Is it a psycharamelized from Parallel Universe version of 'Wild Horses'?" Nobody knew about it but Operetta was actually found by Sin-atra inside a shell during an unforgettable vacation in Kythira. The chords were given to him by the sea-sample created when the island of Aphrodite was reunited with the Greek state.