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The City That Left the Earth는 9트랙 심포닉 프로그레시브 록 콘셉트 앨범으로, 1972년의 소리와 시각 언어를 통해 상상했습니다. 멜로트론과 해먼드 오르간, Moog 신시사이저, 일렉트릭 피아노, 선율적인 베이스, 깨끗한 일렉트릭 기타, 어쿠스틱 드럼, 테이프 에코, 바이닐 표면 잡음과 따뜻한 아날로그 프로덕션이 새벽 전 깨어나는 거대한 도시를 가로지르는 하나의 연속적인 여정을 빚습니다.
앨범은 야행적인 보컬 구간과 변하는 박자표, 오르간 중심의 편곡, 사이키델릭한 전환, 실내악 같은 부분, 되풀이되는 베이스 도형, 장편의 기악적 전개 사이를 오갑니다. 음악적 정체성은 되풀이되는 세 음의 신호와 하강하는 네 음의 베이스라인으로 결속되며, 둘 다 서사가 진행될수록 변형된 모습으로 돌아옵니다.
각 트랙은 도시의 변모에서 또 다른 부분을 드러냅니다. Signals Before Dawn은 전송 신호를 소개하고, Midnight City는 묻힌 기계 위의 거리를 탐색하며, The Glass Parliament는 투명한 정부의 붕괴를 따라갑니다. Beneath the Electric Sea는 신호를 기악 주제와 변주곡으로 바꾸고, The Chain은 도시와 주민들, 앨범 자체를 잇는 음악적 유대를 제시합니다.
마지막 악장은 불가능한 방과 천상의 반란, 최면적인 우주 표류를 지난 뒤 타이틀곡에서 앨범의 주요 모티프를 심포닉한 출발로 다시 모읍니다. 빈티지 프로그레시브 록, 몰입감 있는 콘셉트 앨범, 아날로그 건반 질감, 처음부터 끝까지 끊김 없이 들을 때 진가를 드러내는 앨범을 좋아하는 청자를 위해 설계되었습니다.
아카이브 연도: 1972 · 공개일:
트랙 목록
- 1Signals Before Dawn5:12
- 2Midnight City5:09
- 3The Glass Parliament5:07
- 4Beneath the Electric Sea 인스트루멘털4:51
- 5The Chain4:32
- 6A Thousand Rooms Without Doors5:46
- 7The Astronomer's Revolt4:43
- 8Space Song5:04
- 9The City That Left the Earth5:27
아카이브 노트
첫 징후는 보이는 것이 아니라 들리는 것이었습니다.
새벽 직전 세 음이 도시의 전기 시스템을 따라 움직이기 시작했습니다. 신호는 거리 아래와 버려진 방, 의회 회의실을 지나 여러 세대 동안 토대 밑에서 잠들어 있던 기계로 들어갔습니다.
숨은 엔진이 회전하기 시작하자 시계는 바늘을 잃고 탑들은 하늘을 배경으로 움직였습니다. Glass Parliament의 통치자들은 혼란을 억누르려 했지만 도시의 건축물은 이미 전송 신호에 반응하기 시작했습니다.
동쪽 탑의 천문학자는 관측 장비를 하늘에서 아래 거리로 돌렸습니다. 그의 마지막 신호가 연쇄를 완성했습니다. 다리는 양쪽 기슭에서 떨어져 나가고 대로는 공중으로 솟았으며, 도시는 불을 밝힌 채 지구를 떠났습니다.
세 음의 전송 신호는 앨범 전체에서 들을 수 있습니다. The Chain에서 처음 나온 하강 베이스라인은 마지막 상승 장면에서 돌아오며, 도시가 자신을 만든 세계 너머를 지난 뒤에야 해소됩니다.
가사 및 자막
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
인스트루멘털 — 가사 없음.
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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