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The City That Left the Earth es un álbum conceptual de rock progresivo sinfónico de nueve temas, imaginado mediante el lenguaje sonoro y visual de 1972. Mellotron, órgano Hammond, sintetizador Moog, piano eléctrico, bajo melódico, guitarra eléctrica limpia, batería acústica, eco de cinta, ruido superficial de vinilo y una cálida producción analógica dan forma a un viaje continuo por una vasta ciudad que despierta antes del amanecer.
El álbum alterna pasajes vocales nocturnos, cambios de compás, arreglos dirigidos por el órgano, transiciones psicodélicas, secciones cercanas a la música de cámara, figuras de bajo recurrentes y desarrollo instrumental de larga duración. Su identidad musical se mantiene unida mediante una señal recurrente de tres notas y una línea de bajo descendente de cuatro notas, que regresan transformadas a medida que avanza la historia.
Cada tema revela otra parte de la transformación de la ciudad. Signals Before Dawn introduce la transmisión. Midnight City explora las calles situadas sobre la maquinaria enterrada, mientras The Glass Parliament sigue el derrumbe de su gobierno transparente. Beneath the Electric Sea transforma la señal en una pieza instrumental de tema y variaciones, y The Chain introduce el vínculo musical que conecta la ciudad, sus habitantes y el propio álbum.
El movimiento final atraviesa habitaciones imposibles, una rebelión celestial y una deriva cósmica hipnótica antes de que el tema homónimo reúna los motivos principales del álbum en una partida sinfónica. Está pensado para oyentes atraídos por el rock progresivo vintage, los álbumes conceptuales inmersivos, las texturas de teclados analógicos y los discos que recompensan la escucha ininterrumpida.
Año del archivo: 1972 · Publicado:
Lista de canciones
- 1Signals Before Dawn5:12
- 2Midnight City5:09
- 3The Glass Parliament5:07
- 4Beneath the Electric Sea Instrumental4:51
- 5The Chain4:32
- 6A Thousand Rooms Without Doors5:46
- 7The Astronomer's Revolt4:43
- 8Space Song5:04
- 9The City That Left the Earth5:27
Notas de archivo
La primera señal no fue visible. Se oyó.
Poco antes del amanecer, tres notas comenzaron a circular por el sistema eléctrico de la ciudad. La señal pasó bajo las calles, atravesó habitaciones abandonadas y cámaras parlamentarias y penetró en maquinaria que había permanecido inactiva bajo los cimientos durante generaciones.
Cuando los motores ocultos empezaron a girar, los relojes perdieron sus agujas y las torres se desplazaron contra el cielo. Los gobernantes del Parlamento de Cristal intentaron contener la alteración, pero la arquitectura de la ciudad ya había empezado a responder a la transmisión.
Un astrónomo de la torre oriental apartó sus instrumentos del cielo y los dirigió hacia las calles de abajo. Su señal final completó la secuencia. Los puentes se separaron de sus orillas, las avenidas se elevaron por el aire y la ciudad abandonó la Tierra con sus luces todavía encendidas.
La transmisión de tres notas puede oírse durante todo el álbum. La línea de bajo descendente introducida en The Chain regresa durante el ascenso final y solo se resuelve después de que la ciudad haya superado el mundo que la construyó.
Letras originales en inglés y subtítulos
Ah Ah Ah Before the dawn Three notes are falling Before the dawn The city is calling Under the street Under the stone Something is turning Something unknown Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Before the dawn The wires awaken Before the dawn The silence is breaking
Twelve bells fall through empty streets Silver rain moves through the square Windows burn above the roofs But no one seems to live in there Midnight city Turning without sleep Midnight city What do your foundations keep? Underneath the avenue Hidden engines breathe below Every tower leans to hear Words the living never know Ah Ah Ah Midnight city Open up your eyes Midnight city Something underneath you rises Leave the sleeping world below Go where no living map can go Midnight city Carry us into the night
The glass parliament gathers at two With silver tongues and transparent views They vote on the colour the morning should wear Then close every curtain and leave it nowhere They measure the rain They number the sky They write down the reasons The daylight must die The glass parliament listens in rows To speeches delivered by mechanical crows They draw little borders around every sound Then wonder why silence is filling the town They catalogue thunder They regulate dreams They seal every doorway And widen the seams The ceiling bends The columns breathe A silver crack Runs underneath Who gave the city permission to rise? Who gave the city permission to rise? The tables turn The windows shake The chamber fills With waking light The glass parliament gathers no more Their names lie scattered across the floor The chairs remain seated in perfect rows While something beneath them awakens and grows
Instrumental: sin letra.
The chain begins beneath the floor A quiet weight behind the door It joins the tower to the street It joins the engine to our feet The chain runs underneath the square Through every wall and every stair It knows the path that no one sees It binds the locks and keeps the keys The chain remembers every name The lost, the silent and the blamed It circles back through steel and stone And makes the borrowed city home I pulled until my hands were red I heard the words the sleepers said You cannot break What has no end You cannot leave What you defend The chain is neither lock nor wall It is the thread between us all The city rises, links remain We leave the Earth but keep the chain
The first room held a map of home But every road was drawn in smoke The rivers climbed the paper walls The compass pointed through the floor A hundred clocks without their hands Were ticking underneath the sand Each second opened like an eye Then closed before it saw me pass The third room floated upside down With chairs suspended from the ground A pale moon trembled in a glass And whispered that the night had passed The walls began to speak my name In voices borrowed from the rain They said the city knew the way But every answer changed its shape Keep walking Keep walking There is no door behind you The final room contained no wall No ceiling, window, floor at all A thousand rooms fell out of sight And left me standing in the night Far below The engines turned Far above The signal burned
Who drew the border around the stars? We did not Who placed the night behind iron bars? We did not The astronomer climbed the eastern tower With broken charts and a stolen hour He turned the lenses away from Mars And aimed them down at the city's heart Who told the heavens where to end? No one knows Who made the planets our enemies? No one knows He cut the wires beneath the dome And sent one signal into the unknown The engines answered under the street The constellations moved beneath his feet I watched the moon Turn inside out I watched the sky Release its doubt No throne above No chain below Only the road The planets know Who gives the city the right to fly? We give it now Who opens the road beyond the sky? We open it now The astronomer raised his empty hand The towers rose at his command
Carry me beyond the turning world Space song Carry me beyond the turning world Space song No north above No south below No road to leave No road to know Carry me beyond the turning world Space song The stars are windows The dark is clear The Earth grows smaller Then disappears Carry me beyond the turning world Space song Carry me beyond the turning world Space song Beyond the world Beyond the world Space song
Before the dawn The signal came Across the roofs Across the rain Beneath the streets The engines heard Three notes became A waking world The bridges loosen from the shore The towers rise without a sound The avenues become the sky The rivers leave their beds below No king commands No clock remains The glass has broken From its frame City of midnight City of light Carry our names Out of the night Leave every border Leave every chain Never return To the Earth again Ah Ah Ah The oceans became a mirror The mountains became a line The world became a distant lantern Turning beneath us After the night A morning came Without a shore Without a name Every window faced the stars Every street became a road The city carried all we were Into the endless afterglow City of midnight City reborn You carried the night And returned it as dawn Beyond every border Beyond every chart The city that left the Earth Still turns in the dark
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