Ho barattato il deserto con lo spazio siderale, la sabbia che mi bruciava sotto le unghie con la polvere di stelle, il blues nato dal sole rosso con lo stoner di un buco nero. Ho fratturato la retta che separava il cielo e la terra, per ricomporla con un tutore di silicio e cavi elettrici: l'orizzonte non è più il mio traguardo, ma la mia piattaforma di lancio.
Ora cavalco il Turbo Elefante e la mia meta sono le pianure cosmiche. Il pachiderma è dopato a mescalina e carburante per missili da distilleria, ma tiene bene la rotta e non ho paura. Lancio l'animale su un sentiero di cocci di cuori spezzati, scivolando su un arcobaleno al neon, che spunta solo quando piove acido. Sul sedile posteriore, aggrappato ai miei fianchi per non cadere, il chaos ha le fattezze di una donna chiamata Folgore: ci aspettano i titani solari, Quincy il Ragazzo Maiale e il Signore dei Calabroni.
Tutto intorno a me ci sarà Il Grande Nero (2000): l'"anima dell'antica razza stoner", presenza onnipotente, potere sublime. Un aggregarsi cosmico, un brodo primordiale di spudorate reminiscenze sabbathiane ("Hot Magic, Red Placet", e tutte le altre), apparizioni di wah wah sguaiati ("Scorpionica") e Doom nudo e crudo, opprimente e asfittico ("The Big Black"). Big bang di distorsioni rocciose, chitarre southern sparate a duecento anni luce all'ora ("Turbo Effalunt") e pace cosmica di intermezzi sognanti e visionari, divagazioni e ciondolamenti da ubriaco tra desolanti, ipnotici, scenari desertico-astrali ("Cozmo Bozo", "You'll Never Get To The Moon In That").
Il risultato è uno splendido e riuscitissimo meticcio delle molteplici personalità del quintetto-quartetto londinese: meno psichedelico ed effettato del debutto "Frequencies From The Planet Ten" del ‘97, meno bikeroso del precedente "Time Travelling Blues" del '98, meno metal del successivo "Coupe De Grace" del ‘02. Tra Kyuss, Cathedral e Nebula, ma con una certa attitudine festaiola. Ben suonato e ben prodotto da Billy Anderson. Con la benedizione di John Garcia.
"God's on my side, baby
But the Devil calls my tunes
And I've been feeling lately
This whole universe is doomed"
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01 Scorpionica (03:16)
My god rises at daybreak
My goddess goes down on me at dawn
Hallucinate what is on the horizon
Scorpionica, she is born
My brain sings revolution
She sends life to the heart of the sun
Hallucinate what the sunrise is hiding
Scorpionica has begun
And as the sun burns on
And takes my soul away
The solar titan rises
And lives to shine another day
I got burnt for my madness
She got high on the heart of my soul
Sonic titans are riding the sunrise
Scorpionica, she is born
02 Quincy the Pigboy (03:57)
Yeah, that little fucker, he's racin' for the sun
He's got a bottle of Jack and he's getting drunk
He's smokin' lines in a joint just to ease his pain
He's takin' pills just to get back down again
Get back down again
Yeah, he's gettin' kicks on the highway 666
He killed his mother 'cos she would not suck his dick
With all the drugs he's a time bomb set to blow
He's shootin' up just to let that feeling go
Let that feeling go
03 Hot Magic, Red Planet (03:54)
Light the fire, take me higher
Sell my soul for what it's worth
Set the course right, into the night
Far behind us, planet Earth
Strange affliction, drug addiction
Too many people, too many cars
Mind destruction, soul abduction
Build a new home in the stars
Celestial chaos and madness
Causing temples to fall into space
Planets collide in a daydream
Giving birth to an alien race
Send the kids to the stars for our future
It's the way that religion has planned
Television and science control us
And the drugs help us all understand
Light the fire, take me higher
Sell my soul for what it's worth
Set the course right, into the night
Far behind us, planet Earth
04 Cozmo Bozo (06:00)
If mine is yours, baby, and yours is mine Then why is yours always so hard to find A king of men and a queen of whores You've built your empire on all fours You give me sorrow in return for love Bring me down from what I'm dreaming of The lights are on but there's nobody home Selling my soul just to be alone Singin' a song that should bring it all back to you Doing the things that you said you'd never do Riding the nights, left the good times far behind Looking to you for the things I'll never find I don't need comfort or your sympathy I don't want pity or an easy lay I want the sun, the moon, the stars and all I need your loving and some alcohol
05 298 Kg (03:56)
I've seen your illusions, just like you've seen my desires
There has got to be much more burnin' in tomorrow's fires
I just sip the potion, hope it takes my blues away
So I just keep on rollin', 'til I find a brighter day
I see your sun is shinin', heavens smilin'
There's never been a way for me to say
I've got to find the feelin', start believin'
There's got to be a way for me to say that I know
If a blind man sees tomorrow, like a deaf man hears the sun
Then we must choose if we were born to lose, or if we're the chosen one
I can't find the feeling, that'll take my blues away
So I just keep on rollin', 'til I find a brighter day
I see your sun is shinin', heavens smilin'
There's never been a way for me to say
I've got to find the feelin', start believin'
There's got to be a way for me to say that I know
A blind man sees tomorrow, like a deaf man hears the sun
We must choose if we were born to lose, or if we're the chosen one
06 Turbo Effalunt (Elephant) (03:35)
A million miles an hour, with an overloaded mind
Ridin' on an asteroid into a different space in time
Satellites of madness are building mushrooms in the sky
Through a magic universe, into the neon light
It's a lonely ride
Fly on through a mountain like a rocket to my brain
Watch the turbo elephants go around the sun again
Catch the shooting shar that's heading straight towards the door
Take it while I've got it 'cos you won't see me no more
It's a lonely ride
Woman, didn't I say I didn't want you in my head
Oh woman, said I only wanted you to stay in my bed
'Cos maybe, if we stick together we'll find our own way home
'Cos oh baby, that's the best damn journey that I've ever grown
It's a lonely ride
09 Alcofuel (02:25)
I'll fly this sucker, baby I've got seven stars that guide my fortune I'll take us far away To the planet I built for you on a mountain No need to breathe again I've got a nuclear heart and it's overloading I'll never drink again Just like I told you blue snow would fall, I'm joking I've got one last chance to try and ease my pain But I'm sinking to the bottom of the bottle again 'Cos I'm all dried up and it's hard to choose If I'm burning out on fairytales or booze
10 The Big Black (11:52)
Bypassing history, travelling time
Omnipotent presence, the power sublime
True path of wisdom, stoner doom grows
Where Big Black came from, the Lightbringer knows
Traversing the cosmos with stars as its eyes
Crushing the galaxy, nebulas die
A nova erupts its soul into space
The Big Black's the soul of the old stoner race
The end of all things is approaching us soon
Destruction brought on by the legions of doom
Damnation eternal for men of poor thought
The Big Black's the force that the wizards once sought
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