Blak Saagan - Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni

In an age that demands hyper acceleration, kinetic flashes and byte voracity, Blak Saagan sticks out like a sore thumb with a sprawling body of work that requires attention and unlocks profound symbols and meaning with every passage.

After a 5 year gap, the Venetian composer returns with his most personal and openly political statement yet, Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni, a staggering 108 minute triple album soundtracking a dystopian city through flashes of futuristic fourth world visions, warehouse 80s rave-ups, meditative trance and dark rumblings.

Referencing the ecosystem that Marija Gimbutas and Philip K. Dick handed down to us, Blak Saagan’s music threads the needle hypnotically moving from Carpenter synth worship, the anxiogenic cyber-pulsating ‘The Blak Fire’ or the persian EDM of ‘Idoli Rotti fatti di Paura ed Oro’, to metaphysical experimentations that recall the work of legendary Italian sound architects Egisto Macchi and Nora Orlandi, the bouncing astral esoteric ‘La Dama con il Corpo di Uccello’ and the spiritual cadence of ‘Mila nel bosco’.

Ambient-folk goddess Julinko brings an elysian quality to ‘Il Giorno di Zaha'kol’, the submerged vocals of techno producer Annalisa Iembo (Jerome) are printed on the drugged out coldwave hit ‘Benzocrazia’, Italian illustrator Liz Van Der Nüll posse-raps on the synth-punk siren blaring ‘FRREPa’ while cosmic loner James Jonathan Clancy ethereally closes ‘Idoli Rotti fatti di Paura ed Oro’.

Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni plays like a puzzle where every piece eerily discloses a historical metaphor, a captivating voyage where Blak Saagan’s time machine crosses 10,000 years of patriarchy, monotheism, colonialism and capitalism, denouncing a cruel present, while remembering a gloomy past.

Some might call it conscious escapism or spiritual socialism, some might see it as evoking a new realm and some might hail , a path trailblazed by outsiders like David Sylvian, Muslimgauze and Chrome… painting a black horizon from which, perhaps, hope can still emerge. Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni is the second release of Opale, a series curated by Maple Death and publishing house Canicola Edizioni, sister imprints that for last decade have been exploring and researching the intersection of music and narrative through images and sound, giving life to new dialogues between the two languages, with a visionary and militant approach.