"It's supposed to be an occult map of creation," Cloud explains, "something to do with the way we attain spiritual enlightenment. Each of the stations represents a different sphere of human experience, and each one is connected to the others by a system of rails. And each is assigned a number. If it doesn't have a number, it doesn't exist."
He's assigned each of the spheres a group of chords and various archetypical characters from the narrative of his concept album - Detective Joe (Em6), Alice (B), Ronin (A5)...
"I don't actually understand any of it, by the way," he adds, with self-deprecating lightness, "I just thought... well, I had this word caught on my head, so I looked it up to see what it meant. I thought I'd just invented it."
Why is it that when he starts trying to explain things, he always ends up sounding like he's been badly translated from some other language?
"Maybe we should consider going occult as part of our image for our next album?" Cloud suggests, scratching his head. "It'd give the conspiracy theorists something to think about."
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He's assigned each of the spheres a group of chords and various archetypical characters from the narrative of his concept album - Detective Joe (Em6), Alice (B), Ronin (A5)...
"I don't actually understand any of it, by the way," he adds, with self-deprecating lightness, "I just thought... well, I had this word caught on my head, so I looked it up to see what it meant. I thought I'd just invented it."
Why is it that when he starts trying to explain things, he always ends up sounding like he's been badly translated from some other language?
"Maybe we should consider going occult as part of our image for our next album?" Cloud suggests, scratching his head. "It'd give the conspiracy theorists something to think about."