In città è arrivato un nuovo supergruppo, composto da Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner (The National), Nico Muhly e James McAlister.
Il nuovo ed imprevedibile collettivo ha messo su disco l’intero universo per raccontare l’ordine perfetto delle cose sul pianeta. Le tracce non lasciano spazio ad interpretazioni, posto che prendono il nome dai pianeti e dagli elementi caratteristici del cosmo.
Un lavoro attentamente studiato che ha avuto una genesi lunga e dilatata nel tempo, come tutto ciò che ci circonda.
Queste le parole di Sufjan Stevens che racconta le sensazioni e la nascita di questo incredibile progetto:
I knew I wanted to write songs. I didn’t want it to be like art music. So I thought that’s what I would bring, is just the lyrics. And at first it didn’t have lyrics, and we were naming everything based on astrology … we were just using our kind of horoscope-like concepts. And so I was thinking about astrology and then I started writing the lyrics and it started to shape into songs about the planets. So then I just decided to go with that. I mean lyrically it’s a word salad. Half the time I had no idea what I was saying. It was just like I was just grabbing.
I was also struck by the abundance of our lives here — of the human body, just our own biology, what we contain our anatomy — all kinds of stuff. There’s stuff going on and it’s like, life is so abundant here and yet we’re still obsessed with the exterior of here — and it’s just chaos. It’s methane gas and helium, just violent chaos. That’s what’s so interesting. There’s a sort of beautiful perfect order to life on earth that’s so mysterious and so profound. And yet as people we really f*** it up. We’re so dysfunctional, and we seek guidance from the exterior world, from the heavens, to help us understand our purpose here and to sort of create a sense of order.
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