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Zaireeka è il frutto più visionario della mente dei Flaming Lips ultima fase.
I FL sono il gruppo omni-pshichedelico, nato nell'83, da cui sono usciti i Mercury Rev di Donahue (e Dave Fridmann, ingengnere del suono dei primissimi FL).
L' Opera consiste di quattro CD da suonare contemporaneamente (io ci sono più o meno riuscito una sola volta stabilendo degli appuntamenti/staffette fra i lettori CD).
Il risultato è allucinante (nel vero senso della parola) e difficile da spiegare a parole. Momenti di dolcezza celestiaca dai quattro angoli del "paradiso" (vedi la fine di The Train...) si alternano ad accerchiamenti sonori (dall'assolo di batteria proveniente a turno dale quattro casse, in March..., ai cani latranti che ti dilaniano alla fine di The Big...).
Da ascoltare, senza filtri.
PS: Ascoltatevi anche Up Above the Daily Hum, se mai la notte, sotto un cielo stellato, immaginandovi "Happy on the pull of the past, just before the future comes..."
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand (02:51)
Okay, I'll admit that I really don't understand
02 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (07:02)
On some driven ship,
the morning commuter ride,
everything is orange and bright.
Your invisible now,
and I know that it's hard to get used to.
The panoramic scene,
the landscape's grande design,
the moment overtakes your life.
In the silver mornig sun
the worst is magnified
it makes you see the use of Christ.
03 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:58)
Another moth disintegrates
Hovering in the beam
Of a searchlight
That's looking for a trace
Of a plane
Whose pilot, it's a shame
Has gone insane
You can see the silhouette
Across the moon
He hung himself mid-flight
In the bathroom
Why is it so high?
Why is it so much?
04 A Machine in India (10:23)
I'm going to India over and over again.
I'm standin' in a cylinder, seein' all the bleedin' vaginas.
I feel it now comin' over me so I strive to love the Messiah.
I'm goin' to India over and over again.
I'm rushin' to the nearest station, feet and hands collided with the driver.
All that I think, all I thought and all I know the Syrian missile guides itself into the vaginas.
I'm goin' to India over and over again.
05 The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat (06:13)
As if to be some kind of test..
born out of the boredom of who's better than the rest.
This time they wouldn't measure the pointless small details..
the only thing that mattered was if the "you" prevailed.
Maybe it's just some coincidence that natural selection always works the best.
what if they didn't count the molecules that failed
and the only thing that mattered were the pieces that prevailed.
06 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (02:23)
How will we know
If this rush of noise we're hearin'
is the world's biggest hammer
comin' down on our heads crushing our lives,
and everything that we've said,
crushing the existence of any small effects we've had
or is it just some super-sonic flux invented in the future
blowin' up so hard you can hear it before it happens
... how will we know?
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Zaireeka è il frutto più visionario della mente dei Flaming Lips ultima fase.
Per cui in un certo senso è l'ascoltatore che 'suona' Zaireeka.
