This is our geography

9 songs, 8 cities, 7 musicians.

I guess we are looking for our identity through our whole lives. Moving countries, choosing another home can both mess things up or help.

These nine songs I released today are trying to discover where I stand, where you stand, where we are standing. Rarely on solid ground, mostly on water, sometimes flying. Let’s open the map, let’s check on our feet, let’s discover together.

I’m Making Waves

The album opens with a proposition, describing the fortuitousness of arrival and the impact of our movements. It also designates where the album is going:

“Draw me a map, draw me in

This is our geography”

Intergalactic

The transition between homes makes relationships, well, also transitionary. It’s always a gamble who is going to stick along from the past and from the future. So think about this:

“Do you really want to be the force

The one who reports of a happy end?”

There Are No Mountains

When you leave something behind, for a while you only notice things that are new and enticing in your new location. After a while you start noticing what you miss from your past. Are those things, however, not obstacles to settling and finding your new self? Don’t they enable you to struggle against letting the past go?

“Let’s forget the fighting,

There are no mountains

In my soul”

Imaginary World

Places, homes can also exist in our heads. Growing up, not seeing positive examples for a potential happy adulthood can create those universes of escapism. Some kids find it hard to imagine a happy future. Let’s help them.

“I’ve come to love this imaginary world, imaginary life”.

Princess

And talking about universes in our minds. Some things of pure nature, our pure selves are locked inside it by the outside, very real world and their inhabitants. It’s time to reconnect.

“Now I’m old and graceful

And moved out of the castle

Thinking of a time that’s never been”

Everybody Loves Somebody Else

It’s mad. It’s crazy. We grow up and go to the disco only to find that

“Everybody loves somebody else

And we fly alone across the universe”

Cool Rivers

I live next to the water. I live with the water. The lovemaking of different temperatures keeps me upright on the tightrope that is every day.

“Now I am sitting on the bank

My feet in the river

I no longer quiver”

Alien

I’ve come in peace. Will you please love me.

“Don’t speak to the alien. Don’t speak to the alien.”

Plenty of Light

And breathe. Even when it does not seem like it,

“There’s plenty of light

Can you also see how it plays with the dark?”